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Voice of Simon Bar-Sinister

posted 17 years ago by gemis-geo
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Im rather confused on this fact

as a child watching Underdog (which was my all time favorite next to Tom and Jerry) I was always under the impression that Lionel Barrymore did the voice of Simon Bar-Sinister and even in the interview with co-creater Joe Harris on the DVD collection he states that Barrymore did the voice and even made reference to his sinister roll in "its a wonderful life".

But

According to IMDB Barrymore died in 1954.....so i think im just going to assume that both me and Harris are losing it in our old age lol

[–] LarrupinLou 17 years ago

Harris must have been joking, unless Barrymore did indeed do the voice characterization as a reanimated corpse. :-)

Funny, but I was an adult when I finally saw the connection between Bar-Sinister and Barrymore. Of course, I hadn't seen any Lionel Barrymore films until I was an adult (I have made up for that over the years :-).

No blah, blah, blah!

[–] tdickson 17 years ago

Allen Swift did Bar Sinister's voice, but he was doing a pretty darn good Lionel Barrymore impression. Ben Stone's "Cad" seems to waver between a Moe Howard impression and a so-so Bogart.