1. Hans Conried was known for providing the voices of George Darling and Captain Hook in Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Waldo P Wigglesworth in Ward's Hoppity Hooper cartoons, was host of Ward's live-action "Fractured Flickers" show and Professor Kropotkin on the radio and film versions of My Friend Irma.
Hans Conried appeared as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas' sitcom Make Room for Daddy, twice on I Love Lucy, and as the Mad Hatter along with Daws Butler, Dolores Starr, Stanley Adams, Francis Condie Baxter and Cheryl Callaway in The Alphabet Conspiracy.
Hans Conried's Connecticut-born mother was a descendant of Pilgrims, and his father was a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, Austria.
Hans Conried was raised in Baltimore and in New York City.
Hans Conried stayed with MGM until 1941, then began freelancing.
Hans Conried trained at Fort Knox as a tank crewman until the army decided he was too tall.
Hans Conried became a heavy mortar crewman then was sent to the Philippines as an engineer laborer until fellow actor Jack Kruschen obtained his release for service with the Armed Forces Radio Network.
Hans Conried remained active in radio during the 1940s and 1950s.
Hans Conried was in the regular cast of Orson Welles' Ceiling Unlimited, for which he wrote the December 14,1942, episode, "War Workers".
Hans Conried was a regular on the CBS Radio program Life with Luigi, portraying Schultz, a German classmate.
Hans Conried played occasional dialect roles on CBS's detective series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Hans Conried, who played Kropotkin on radio, stepped in to finish the picture.
Hans Conried's first leading film role was the independent science fiction comedy The Twonky in 1953.
Two years later, Hans Conried appeared as a riverboat gambler in Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
Hans Conried was cast as the foreboding "Dr Terwilliker" and turned in a bravura performance that might have changed his career.
The film's financial failure didn't affect Hans Conried's working relationship with Geisel, who went on to cast him in three Dr Seuss television specials, including the 1977 Halloween TV special Halloween is Grinch Night, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
Hans Conried voiced both the Narrator and the Grinch, a role originated in 1966 by Boris Karloff in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
In 1981, Hans Conried was set to reprise his role as the Grinch for The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, but he was in poor health and died early in 1982.
Hans Conried then went on to pose live-action reference and audition for Aurora's father, King Stefan, in another Disney animated film, Sleeping Beauty, but the voice role of Stefan was officially taken by Taylor Holmes for the film's final cut.
Nevertheless, Hans Conried hosted several episodes of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color as the Magic Mirror from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Hans Conried supplied the storybook narration for MGM's Johann Mouse, the 1952 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, the seventh and last Oscar given to a Tom and Jerry short.
Hans Conried became a charter member of the Jay Ward-Bill Scott stock company.
Hans Conried voiced the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right segments of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and Professor Waldo P Wigglesworth on Hoppity Hooper.
Hans Conried voiced Wally Walrus on The Woody Woodpecker Show and Dr Dred on Drak Pack.
From 1955 to 1964, Hans Conried made 19 guest appearances as "Uncle Tonoose" in Make Room for Daddy on ABC and then CBS, and four appearances as other characters.
Hans Conried was a regular guest on Jack Paar's Tonight Show from 1959 to 1962.
Hans Conried was a regular panelist on the pantomime program Stump the Stars and a semi-regular guest on the Ernie Kovacs-hosted game show Take a Good Look.
In 1977, Hans Conried joined the cast for the second and final season of The Tony Randall Show in the recurring role of Judge Franklin's irascible father, Wyatt.
Hans Conried made his Broadway debut in the Cole Porter musical Can-Can, where he played a struggling artist and sang two musical numbers.
Hans Conried married Margaret Grant on January 29,1942; they had four children.
Hans Conried had a long history of heart problems and had a stroke in 1974 and a mild heart attack in 1979.
Hans Conried remained active until his death on January 5,1982, one day after suffering a major heart attack.