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Paul Frees

Solomon Hersh Frees, better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist and screenwriter known for his work on MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Along with his contemporary Mel Blanc, he became known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices".

Aliases
  • Solomon Hersh Frees
  • Solomon Frees
  • Paul Hersh Frees
  • Paul H. Frees
  • Buddy Green
  • Solomon Hersh
English
Filmography

101 Dalmatians

1961
as Dirty Dawson (voice)

Mary Poppins

1964
as Barnyard Horse (voice)

The Woody Woodpecker Show

1940
as Wally Walrus

The Pink Panther

1964
as Man talking to Pink Panther

The Hillbilly Bears

1965
as Claude Hopper

The Last Unicorn

1982
as Mabruk (voice)

George of the Jungle (1967)

1967
as Ape

Tom Slick

1967
as Otto Matic

Frosty the Snowman

1969
as Santa Claus / Traffic Cop / Additional Voices (voice)

The Puppetoon Movie

1987
as Arnie the Dinosaur / Pillsbury Doughboy

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954
as Paul Frees

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

1964
as Crusty (voice)

Attack of the Jungle Women

1959
as Narrator

Fractured Flickers

1963

The Flight of Dragons

1982

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

1971
as Singer of 'The Darktown Strutters' Ball' (voice)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970
as Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura (voice)

Plastered in Paris

1966
as Commissioner

Current Affairs: The Case of Dashiell Hammett

1982
as Narrator

Duck Flies Coop

1959
as Radio Voices

The Secret Squirrel Show

1965

Suddenly

1954
as Benny Conklin

Space Ghost

1966
as Brago & Zerod

Jackson 5ive

1971

The Bullwinkle Show

1959

The Butcher, the Baker, the Ice Cream Maker

1955
as Ice Cream Maker

The Secret Squirrel Show

1965
as Morocco Mole

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1968

Super Chicken

1967
as Fred

Noah's Ark

1959
as Noah / God

Top Cat

1961
as Various voices

Cirrhosis of the Louvre

1966
as Commissioner (voice)

Crazy With The Heat

1947
as Oasis Soda Fountain Proprietor

Arabian Knights

1968

What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon

1983
as Trailer Announcer

Sink Pink

1965
as Hunter / Native Bearer

The Harder They Fall

1956
as Priest

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers

1956
as Alien (voice)

Rendezvous in Space

1964
as Mr. Space

Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

1964
as Ainmal Traininer

Ballyhooey

1960
as (voice)

The War of the Worlds

1953
as Second Radio Reporter / Opening Announcer

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962
as Stage Director / Charity Man / Fezziwig / Eyepatch Man / Tall Tophat Man (voice)

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

1976
as Jack Frost

Run, Joe, Run

1974
as Narrator

Tricky Trout

1961
as Wally Walrus (voice)

The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation

1965
as Weft / Wight / Wong (voice)

A Place in the Sun

1951
as Minister

Where the Boys Are

1960
as Narrator

The Bear That Wasn't

1967
as Narrator

Krazy Kat

1962
as Ignatz Mouse

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July

1979
as Winterbolt / Jack Frost / Policeman

Punchy Pooch

1962
as Doc (voice)

The Magic Sword

1962
as Sir Ulrich of Germany (voice)

Woody Woodpecker and Friends

1929
as Various Voices

Down Beat Bear

1956
as 1st Radio Announcer

The Thing from Another World

1951
as Prof. Voorhees

Beginning of the End

1957
as Helicopter Pilot (voice)

That's No Lady, That's Notre Dame

1966
as Commissioner (voice)

Pinkfinger

1965
as Narrator (voice)

Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles

1966
as Fluid Man

Jerry and the Lion

1950
as The Lion

The Beany and Cecil Show

1962

The Cat That Hated People

1948
as Cat (voice)

Droopy

1943
as Joe Wolf (voice)

The First Easter Rabbit

1976
as Zero / Santa (voice)

A Public Affair

1962
as Narrator

The Magic Pear Tree

1968

The Mouse on the Mayflower

1968
as (voice)

The Return of the King

1980
as Goblin/Elrond

Hoppity Hooper

1964
as Narrator

The Point!

1971
as Oblio's Father / Pointed Man's Right Head / King / Leaf Man / Villagers (voice)

Peabody's Improbable History

1959
as Various Characters

Sleepy-Time Tom

1951
as Light-Brown Cat

Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection

2007
as Joe Wolf (Most Common Antagonist)

The Time Machine

1960
as Talking Rings (Voice)

The Wind in the Willows

1987
as Wayfarer (voice)

Hardware Wars

1978
as Narrator

Wee-Willie Wildcat

1953
as Barney Bear / William Wildcat (voice) (uncredited)

Fantastic Animation Festival

1977
as Opening Narration

Calvin and the Colonel

1961

The Millionaire

1955

Charlie the Rainmaker

1971
as Charlie Beary/Junior Beary (voice)

Green Lantern

1968
as Guardians of the Universe / Kairo / Evil Star

Rudolph's Shiny New Year

1976
as Santa Claus / Aeon / General Ticker / Seventeen Seventy Six

Wild and Woolfy

1945
as Joe Wolf

Space Master X-7

1958
as Dr. Charles T. Pommer / Train-Station Announcer

Jack Frost

1979
as Kubla Kraus

Twice Upon a Time

1983
as Narrator / Chief of State / Judges / Bailiff (voice)

Jerry's Cousin

1951
as Cousin Muscles

Disney's DTV Valentine

1986
as Ludwig Von Drake / Announcer (voice)

Gay Purr-ee

1962
as Meowrice (voice)

Goliath II

1960
as The Mouse

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954
as Guard Monroe

Woody Woodpecker and Friends

1982
as Various Voices

Kids Is Kids

1961
as Ludwig Von Drake (voice)

Donald in Mathmagic Land

1959
as The True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator

The Inspector

1965
as The Commissioner (1966 - 1967)

The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians

1970
as W.C. Fields / Chico Marx / Zeppo Marx / Announcer (voice)

The Absent-Minded Professor

1961
as Loudspeaker Voice / Air Force Dispatcher (voice)

Family Planning

1967
as Narrator

Pollyanna

1960
as Barker (voice)

The Star

1952
as Richard Stanley

Space Ghost and Dino Boy

1966
as Brago & Zerod

Life with Tom

1953

Super-Wolf

1949
as Broadcaster

Bomb Voyage

1967
as Commissioner

The Osmonds

1972

When Worlds Collide

1951
as Narrator/U.S. President (voice)

Cruise Cat

1952
as Ship's Captain

Blue Cat Blues

1956
as Voices

Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

1970
as Mayor Burgermeister Meisterburger / Grimsby / Ben Haramed (voice)

The Mr. Magoo Show

1960

Doc's Last Stand

1961
as Doc / Indians / Narrator (voice)

The Little Drummer Boy

1968
as Aaron's Father, the Magi,Ali (voice)

The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo

1964
as Police Officer

Here Comes Peter Cottontail

1971
as (voice)

The Missing Mouse

1953
as Radio Announcer

It's Tough to Be a Bird

1969
as Life Erikson

The Manchurian Candidate

1962
as Narrator (voice)

Atlantis: the Lost Continent

1961
as Narrator / Multiple Voices

The Day After Trinity

1981
as Narrator

Eyes in Outer Space

1959
as Narrator

Squiddly Diddly

1965
as Squiddly Diddly

Mars and Beyond

1957
as Narrator

T.V. of Tomorrow

1953
as Narrator

The Man Called Flintstone

1966
as Rock Slag / Green Goose / Triple X (voice)

His Mouse Friday

1951
as Jerry / Cannibals

3-D Rarities

2015
as (archive footage)

The Hobbit

1977
as Bombur/Troll #1

The Stingiest Man in Town

1978
as Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

The Milpitas Monster

1976
as Narrator

The Beatles

1965
as John / George (speaking)

Le Escape Goat

1967
as Commissioner (voice)

Social Lion

1954
as Various Voices

Casey Bats Again

1954
as narrator

Steve Canyon

1958
as Narrator

Homesteader Droopy

1954
as narrator

Fantastic Four (1967)

1967
as The Thing / Benjamin J. Grimm

Wild in the Streets

1968
as Narrator (voice)

The Beary Family

1962
as Charlie & Junior Beary

Smitten Kitten

1952
as Jerry's Devil Conscience

Director

Movie The Beatniks 1960
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
The Beatniks 		1992

Writer

Movie The Beatniks 1960

Guest Star

Episode Fantastic Four (1967)
Galactus 		1967
Episode The Adventures of Jim Bowie
German George 		1957
Episode Steve Canyon
Operation Towline 		1958
Episode Fantastic Four (1967)
It Started on Yancy Street 		1967
Episode Tom and Jerry
Jerry And The Lion 		1950
Episode Knight Rider
K.I.T.T. vs. K.A.R.R. 		1984
Episode Nanny and the Professor
The Great Broadcast of 1936 		1970
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
An Adventure in Color/Mathmagic Land 		1961
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Casey Bats Again 		1954
Episode The Flintstones
The Happy Household 		1962
Episode Tom and Jerry
Jerry's Cousin 		1951
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Crazy with the Heat 		1947
Episode Droopy
Wild and Woolfy 		1945
Episode Disney Animated Shorts
Social Lion 		1954
Episode Rankin-Bass Holiday Classics
The Little Drummer Boy 		1968