Who did the best voiceovers?

[Taeylor Collins]

Personally...my favorites in order were Grayson Hall...her voice was just awesome.  Nancy Barett, Thayer David, and Joan Bennett!

[A.C.]

Oh, Alexandra absolutly. You can't be the orginal! The others were good of course but it was kind of jarring whenever one of the male performers did the voice over..it didn't seem...well natural.

[retzev]

I gotta go with Moltke, but Selby's were pretty good -

[IluvBarnabas]

My personal favorites are Jonathan and Humbert Allen Astredo.....they both sounded so mysterious and forbidding....I just loved it.

[Gothick]

My favorite is Grayson, but I freely admit to being WAY prejudiced here.  I just adore listening to her voice... I could literally imagine her making the New York Telephone Directory a HOOT.  I also love her way of pronouncing certain words--"Collinwood" often comes out sounding like "CALLANwood."

Thayer is another favorite because his voice is so distinctive.  Humbert was very good, as was John Karlen.  Alexandra was excellent, too.

There's a hilarious parody of Louis Edmonds doing a voiceover in the Cheep Productions video, Save Our Cemeteries.  When I first saw it, I initially thought it was Louis, but I think it was actually brilliant fan performer Daryl Schaeffer.

G.

[Brandon Collins]

My fav five are, in order:

1. Grayson
2. Thayer
3. Alexandra
4. Jonathan
5. David Selby

[Nelson Collins]

My favorite is Grayson, but I freely admit to being WAY prejudiced here.  I just adore listening to her voice... I could literally imagine her making the New York Telephone Directory a HOOT.  I also love her way of pronouncing certain words--"Collinwood" often comes out sounding like "CALLANwood."

I love Grayson's voice as well.  Have you ever heard the record Disney "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of a Haunted House," released back in the early 70s?  One side is just the sounds themselves, the other is the sounds along with Grayson's narrating as "you" go though a mysterious house in the neighborhood.

I loved that album!

[Nelson Collins]

I love Grayson's voice as well.  Have you ever heard the record Disney "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of a Haunted House," released back in the early 70s?

OOPS.  I just learned I was wrong about that one!  Apologies all!

[Elizabeth47]

Naturally, I love the whispery tone Humbert Astredo used in his voice-overs.   

-Elizabeth

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Apologies all!

No problem. It's not at all surprising that you might have thought the voice on that record was Grayson's because that's yet another instance where something has been repeated so often that it's taken on a life of its own even though it's a misconception. 

[Janet the Wicked]

The dude what announced that the part of Willie Loomis will be played by John Karlen.

[michael c]

my vote goes to alexandra.i loved the "my name is victoria winters..." voiceovers.it had the quality of a girl reciting a passage from her diary.

joan and grayson are both great as well.

for some reason i find it discombobulating when an actor(not an actress)reads it.

kathryn leigh scott erroneously stated in one of her books that the only criterion for reciting the voicoever was that one didn't appear in the opening scene.i have recently watched several episodes where alexandra reads the voiceover and then appears in the opening shot.the same thing with grayson.

[Nelson Collins]

No problem. It's not at all surprising that you might have thought the voice on that record was Grayson's because that's yet another instance where something has been repeated so often that it's taken on a life of its own even though it's a misconception. 

OT - Thanks!  Normally when something like that happens (I discover an obscure fact or read about a rare performance I remembered from my childhood) I have to go immediately and look it up or watch/listen to it.  In this case, have read it recently somewhere that she was the narrator on that Disney record, I instantly recalled the narration with her voice, not having the record anymore to verify.  The voices must sound remarkably similar and I am sure her being in That Darn Cat, pretty much sealed it in my mind, til I was corrected by (would you believe it) IMDB!

Anyway, as much as I love Grayson's voiceovers - I always found it interesting to hear Humbert or John doing the voiceover because they always sounded very different from their characters and I often had to stop and think about who it was...

[Brian]

Fave women first, because they ddn't portray their characters in the VO, and were usually unidentifiable but mysterious:

Lara Parker
Katie Scott
Nancy Barrett
Clarice Blackburn
Grayson Hall

Men:

Always identifiable to me, but I liked:

James Storm
Jerry Lacy
Thayer David

My take on the VO.

Brian

[rainingwolf]

It's a toss between Alexandra and Joan. I loved the "My name is Victoria Winters..." start, but also loved Joan's unique and classy voice.