Paul Frees

**Solomon Hersh Frees** (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), better known as **Paul Frees**, was an American actor, voice actor, impressionist, comedian and screenwriter. He was best known for his work with MGM, Walter Lantz, and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons in the 1950s through the 1980s and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in _The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show_. He became known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices." He is also known for being the original voice of Ludwig Von Drake from 1961 until his death in 1986.

## Filmography

|colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Radio|||
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|1945|_The Lux Radio Theatre_|Multiple Characters||
|1945–47|_A Man Named Jordan_|Digger Slade||
|1946|_Rogue's Gallery_|||
|1946|_The Whistler_|||
|1946|_The Alan Young Show_|||
|1946–52|_Suspense_|Announcer / Passerby / Earl White / Frankenstein's Monster / Hubbard||
|1947|_Ellery Queen_|||
|1947–48|_Escape_|Doctor Dubosk / /Finnie Morner /John Woolfolk /Sanger Rainsford|"The Fourth Man" "Snake Doctor" "Wild Oranges" "The Most Dangerous Game"|
|1948|_Your Movietown Radio Theatre_|Multiple Characters||
|1948|_The First Nighter Program_|Additional voices||
|1949|_The Green Lama_|Jethro Dumont / Green Lama||
|1949|_Rocky Jordan_|||
|1949|_Four Star Playhouse_|||
|1951|_The Silent Men_|||
|1951|_Mr. Aladdin_|Robert Aladdin||
|1951|_Broadway Is My Beat_|||
|1951|_The Thing from Another World_|Dr. Voorhees||
|1952–53|_Gunsmoke_|Sut Grider / Gallagher / Doc Charles Adams (1 episode)|"Heat Spell" "The Soldier" "The Cast"|
|1953|_Crime Classics_|Charles McManus / Charley Ford / Charles Drew, Sr. / Pub Man|"The Axe and the Droot Family- How They Fared" "The Death of a Picture Hanger" "The Shrapnelled Body of Charles Drew, Sr."|
|1953|_Mr. President_|Additional Voices||
|1953|_On Stage_|Chauffeur|"Skin Deep"|
|1954|_Fibber McGee and Molly_|||
|1956|_Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar_|Bert Parker|"The Jolly Roger Fraud" (Part 1)|
|1957|_The CBS Radio Workshop_|Captain Vesey / Ogden the Messenger|"Sweet Cherries in Charleston"|
|1984|_Bradbury 13_|Narrator||

|colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Film||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1947|_Crazy with the Heat_|Oasis Soda Fountain Proprietor|Uncredited||
|1949|_The Adventures of Sir Galahad_|The Black Knight|Voice Uncredited||
|1950|_Jerry and the Lion_|Radio Announcer|||
|1950|_Primitive Pluto_|Primo|Pluto Short||
|1951|_A Place in the Sun_|Rev. Morrison|Live-Action||
|1951|_Jerry's Cousin_|Cousin Muscles|||
|1951|_His Mouse Friday_|Jerry / Cannibals|Uncredited||
|1951|_The Thing From Another World_|Dr. Voorhees|Live-Action||
|1951|_His Kind of Woman_|Corley|Live-Action||
|1952|_The Star_|Richard Stanley|Live-Action||
|1952|_Cruise Cat_|Ship's Captain|||
|1952|_Busybody Bear_|Bear|||
|1953|_Life with Tom_|Radio Announcer|||
|1953|_The Missing Mouse_|Radio Announcer|||
|1953|_Wee Willy Wildcat_|Barney Bear|||
|1953|_The War of the Worlds_|Radio Reporter|Live-Action||
|1953|_Buccaneer Woodpecker_|Wally Walrus|||
|1953|_T.V. of Tomorrow_|Narrator|||
|1954|_Homesteader Droopy_|Narrator|||
|1954|_Baby Butch_|Butch|||
|1954|_The Farm of Tomorrow_|Narrator|||
|1954|_Suddenly_|Benny|Live-Action||
|1955|_Cellbound_|Prisoner / Warden / Little Wife|||
|1956|_Down Beat Bear_|First Radio Announcer|||
|1956|_Blue Cat Blues_|Jerry Mouse|||
|1956|_Francis in the Haunted House_|Francis|||
|1956|_The Harder They Fall_|Priest|Live-action||
|1957|_The 27th Day_|Ward Mason / Newscaster|Live-Action<br / >Uncredited||
|1957|Jet Pilot|Lt. Tiompkin|Uncredited||
|1957|_The Cyclops_|Cyclops|||
|1957|The Snow Queen|Ol Dreamy / the Raven|English Voice Only<br / >Uncredited||
|1958|_Space Master X-7_|Dr. Charles T. Pommer|||
|1959|_Some Like It Hot_|Tony Curtis as Josephine|||
|1959|_The Shaggy Dog_|Narrator / J. W. Galvin|||
|1960|_Loopy De Loop_|Watchdog|"Tale of a Wolf"||
|1961|_One Hundred and One Dalmatians_|Dirty Dawson|Uncredited||
|1961|_The Absent-Minded Professor_|Loudspeaker Voice / Air Force Dispatcher|Voice Uncredited||
|1961|_Clash and Carry_|Wally Walrus|Wally Walrus Short||
|1962-72|_The Beary Family_|Charlie Beary /Junior Beary|||
|1962|_A Symposium on Popular Songs_|Ludwig Von Drake / Al Jolson|||
|1962|_Gay Purr-ee_|Meowrice|||
|1963|_Stowaway Woody_|Unknown|Woody Woodpecker Short||
|1964|_Robin and the 7 Hoods_|Radio News Announcer|||
|1964|_The Disorderly Orderly_|Narrator|||
|1964|_The Carpetbaggers_|Narrator|Uncredited||
|1964|_The Brass Bottle_|Lawyer Jennings|Voice Uncredited||
|1964|_Mary Poppins_|Barnyard Horse|Voice Uncredited||
|1965|_The Great Race_|Automobiles|||
|1965|_Goofy's Freeway Troubles_|Narrator|Voice Uncredited Goofy Short||
|1965|_The Outlaws Is Coming_|Narrator / The Magic Talking Mirror|Voice Uncredited||
|1965|_Sink Pink_|Hunter / Native Bearer|Pink Panther Short||
|1965|_Pink Panzer_|Neighbor / Devil|Pink Panther Short||
|1966|_The Man Called Flintstone_|Green Goose / Agent Triple X / Mario / Rock Slag / Ali / Bobo|||
|1967|_King Kong Escapes_|Dr. Hu|Voice Uncredited English Voice Only||
|1967|_The St. Valentine's Day Massacre_|Narrator|Voice Uncredited||
|1970|_Tora! Tora! Tora!_|_Japanese Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura_|Uncredited||
|1970|_Beneath the Planet of the Apes_|Ending Voiceover|Voice Uncredited||
|1970|_Patton_|War Correspondent / Member of the Staff of Patton / Sheik|||
|1975|_Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze_|Narrator|Uncredited||
|1976|_Midway_|_Adm. Yamamoto_|Voice Uncredited||
|1976|_The Twelve Tasks of Asterix_|Julius Caesar / Cacofonix|Voice||
|1982|_The Flight of Dragons_|Antiquity|Uncredited||
|1982|_The Last Unicorn_|Mabruk|||
|1983|_Twice Upon a Time_|Narrator / Chief of State / Judges in The Pantry of Pomp / Bailiff|||
|1985|_The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal_|Narrator|Documentary about George Pal||
|1987|_The Puppetoon Movie_|Voice of Arnie the Dinosaur and Pillsbury Doughboy|Released posthumously; 7 months after his death. This movie was dedicated to Paul Frees.||

|colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;"|Television|||
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|1953|_The Jack Benny Program_|Narrator|"The Honolulu Trip"|
|1955|_Meet Mr. McNutley_|Husband|Live-Action "Jury Duty"|
|1955–56|_The Bob Cummings Show_|Television announcer||
|1955–60|_The Millionaire_|John Beresford Tipton|Voice|
|1956|_Jane Wyman Presents_|Emcee|Live-Action "Ten Percent"|
|1956–58|_Alfred Hitchcock Presents_|Announcer / Swanson / Mary's Father|Voice|
|1957|_The Adventures of Jim Bowie_|Etienne|Live-Action "German George"|
|1957–68, 1976|_Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color_|Ludwig Von Drake (16 episodes) / Narrator / Donald Duck (1 episode)/ Moby Duck (1 episode)|Voice|
|1957–1961|_The Woody Woodpecker Show_|Wally Walrus / Charlie / Doc / Various||
|1958–59|_Steve Canyon_|Narrator||
|1959–64|_The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show_|Boris / Inspector Fenwick / Captain Peter "Wrong Way" Peachfuzz / Additional Voices|163 Episodes / 326 Segments|
|1960|Mister Magoo|Various|13 Episodes|
|1960–62|_The Flintstones_|Mr. Granite / Rockenschpeel / TV Announcer / Ed Bedrock|"The Babysitters" "The Happy Household"|
|1961|_Top Cat_|Tony / Additional Voices|"The Maharajah of Pookajee" "All That Jazz" "The $1,000,000 Derby" "The Con Men" "Dibble's Double"|
|1961|_The Dick Tracy Show_|Go-Go Gomez|Uncredited|
|1961–62|_Calvin and the Colonel_|Judge Oliver Wendell Clutch||
|1962|_Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol_|Stage Director / Charity Man / Fezziwig / Old Joe / Undertaker|TV Special|
|1963|_Krazy Kat_|Ignatz Mouse||
|1962–64|_Fractured Flickers_|Narrator / Various|26 episodes|
|1964–65|_The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo_|Sherlock Holmes / Various|5 episodes|
|1961–66|_Hoppity Hooper_|Narrator / Additional Voices|52 Episodes / 104 Segments|
|1965|_The New Three Stooges_|Sarge / Von Vonce / Bomb Maker|Voice "That Little Old Bomb Maker"|
|1965|_I Dream of Jeannie_|Narrator|Voice "My Hero?" "Guess What Happened on the Way to the Moon?"|
|1965–66|_The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show_|Squiddly Diddly / Morocco Mole / Double-Q / Yellow Pinkie /Claude Hopper|26 episodes|
|1965–69|_The Beatles_|John Lennon / George Harrison||
|1966|_The Impossibles_|Fluid-Man / Professor Stretch / Captain Kid / Puzzler / Infamous Mr. Instant / Artful Archer / Dr. Futuro|26 episodes|
|1966|_Laurel and Hardy_|Additional Characters||
|1966|_Get Smart_|Greenstreet Character / Lorre Character|"Casablanca"|
|1966–67|_The Super 6_|Dispatcher "Super Chief" / Brother Matzoriley #1 and #3 / Captain Whammo||
|1966–68|_Space Ghost_|Brago / Zeron|20 Episodes|
|1967|_Cricket on the Hearth_|Sea Captain / Caw / Others|TV special|
|1967–70|_George of the Jungle_|Ape / Weevil / Baron Otto Matic / Various|17 episodes|
|1967|_Shazzan_|Various|6 episodes|
|1967|_The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure_|Kobarah / Evil Star|Voice "Hawkman: Peril from Pluto" "Green Lantern: Evil Is as Evil Does"|
|1967–68|_Super President_|James Norcross / Narrator||
|1967–68|_The Fantastic 4_|Ben Grimm / The Thing|20 episodes|
|1968|_The Mouse on the Mayflower_|Captain Christopher Jones|TV Special|
|1968|_Arabian Knights_|Vangore|18 episodes|
|1968|_The Little Drummer Boy_|Ali / Aaron's Father/ The Three Wise Men / Meshaw / Jamilie / Various other Male roles|TV Special|
|1969|_The Pink Panther Show_|Man Talking to the Pink Panther / Texan Hunter / The Pink Panther (1 episode)||
|1969|_The Banana Splits Adventure Hour_|Evil Vangore / Sazoom|8 episodes|
|1969|_Frosty the Snowman_|Santa Claus \ Traffic Cop|TV Special|
|1970|_The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians_|W. C. Fields / Zeppo Marx / Harpo Marx / Traffic Cop|TV Special|
|1970|_Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town_|Burgermeister Meisterburger / Newsreel Announcer / Grimsby / Topper / Additional Voices / Ebenezer Scrooge / Ringle, Dingle, Zingle, Tingle, & Wingle Kringle|TV Special|
|1971|_Hawaii Five O_|Goro Shibata|Voice "Odd Man In"|
|1971|_Here Comes Peter Cottontail_|Santa Claus / Man at Thanksgiving Table / Colonel Bunny's assistant / Fireman / Ben the Rooster|TV special|
|1971–72|_The Jackson 5ive_|Additional Voices||
|1972|_Alias Smith and Jones_|Hannibal Heyes|Voice "The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg"|
|1972|_Hawaii Five O_|Steve McGarrett Imposter|Voice "The Ninety-Second War: Part I"|
|1972|_The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie_|Iguana|Voice "Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid"|
|1974–76|_Run, Joe, Run_|Narrator||
|1975|_Wonder Woman_|Prologue Narrator / Franklin D. Roosevelt|Voice "The New Original Wonder Woman"|
|1976|_The First Easter Rabbit_|Santa Claus / Zero / Spats|TV Special|
|1976|_Frosty's Winter Wonderland_|Jack Frost / Traffic Cop|TV Special|
|1976|_Rudolph's Shiny New Year_|Aeon the Terrible / Santa Claus / General Ticker / Humpty Dumpty|TV Special|
|1976|_The Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show_|Additional Voices||
|1977|_The Hobbit_|Bombur / Troll #1|TV Movie|
|1977|_Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey_|Olaf / Donkey Dealer|TV Special|
|1977|_Fantastic Animation Festival_|Opening Narrator|TV special, uncredited|
|1978|_The Stingiest Man in Town_|Ghost of Christmas Past / Ghost of Christmas Present|TV Special|
|1979|_Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July_|Jack Frost / Officer Kelly / Winterbolt / Genie of the Ice Scepter / Keeper of the Cave of Lost Rejections|TV Movie|
|1979|_Jack Frost_|Father Winter / Kubla Klaus|TV Special|
|1980|_The Return of the King_|Elrond / Orc / Uruk-hai / Goblin|TV movie|
|1982|_Woody Woodpecker and His Friends_|Himself / Various|Video Documentary|
|1986|_DTV Valentine_|Ludwig Von Drake / Announcer|TV movie|
|1987|_The Wind in the Willows_|Wayfarer|Released 8 months after Frees' death|

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Paul Frees
- **birth name**: Solomon Hersh Frees
- **birth place**: Chicago, Illinois, United States, U.S.
- **death place**: Tiburon, California, U.S.
- **death cause**: Heart failure
- **resting place**: Pacific Ocean
- **nationality**: Americans, American
- **other names**: The Man of a Thousand Voices
Solomon Hersh Frees
Solomon Frees
Paul Hersh Frees
Buddy Green
- **occupation**: Actor, voice actor, impressionist, comedian, screenwriter
- **years active**: 1942–1986
- **spouse**: Anelle McCloud
(m. ?–1945, her death)
Kleda June Hansen
(m. 1947–1950, divorced)
Jeri J. Cole
(m. 1967–1969, divorced)
Beverly T. Marlow
(m. 1971–1986, his death)
- **children**: 1