Paul Frees dubbed hundreds of voices in films of the 50s and 60s. Once you get your ear keyed to his vocal intonations it's fairly easy to pick him out.
You can hear him looping over other actors' voices in scores of movies ranging from Gigi to Operation Petticoat to In Cold Blood, as well as narrating or doing other types of voices (such as the aliens here, radio announcers, etc.), and sometimes he does a bit of everything in a film -- e.g., narrating the pre-credit sequence of The War of the Worlds, then later appearing as the reporter making tape recordings before the A-bomb blast. George Pal also used him to voice a radio broadcaster in When Worlds Collide, the voices of the talking rings in The Time Machine and the narrator of Atlantis, the Lost Continent.
He often dubbed foreign actors' voices, such as Toshiro Mifune in Midway. Reportedly, he dubbed every (!) male Japanese actor's voice in the Americanized version of the 1960 Japanese film Storm Over the Pacific, cut, dubbed and released here as I Bombed Pearl Harbor.
Among his other actual appearances in movies are The Thing From Another World, The Big Sky, Suddenly and a number of others. He always reminded me of a young Richard Nixon in the early 50s, no insult intended.
And let's not forget his work on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show!
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