21 Facts About Thurl Ravenscroft

Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft was an American actor and bass singer.

Thurl Ravenscroft was well known as one of the booming voices behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades.

Thurl Ravenscroft's voice-acting career began in 1939 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91.

Thurl Ravenscroft left his native Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1933 for California, where he studied at Otis Art Institute.

In 1942, Thurl Ravenscroft left the Sportsmen quartet to serve in the armed forces.

Thurl Ravenscroft served as a keeper navigator contracted to the US Air Transport Command, spending five years flying courier missions across the north and south Atlantic.

Thurl Ravenscroft sang on the soundtrack for Ken Clark as "Stewpot" in South Pacific, one of the top-selling albums of the 1950s.

Thurl Ravenscroft was the bass singer on Bobby Vee's 1960 Liberty hit record "Devil or Angel".

Thurl Ravenscroft sang the opening songs for the two Disney serials used on The Mickey Mouse Club, Boys of the Western Sea and The Hardy Boys: Mystery of the Applegate Treasure.

Thurl Ravenscroft sang the "Twitterpatter Song" and "Thumper's Song" on the Disneyland record Peter Cottontail and other Funny Bunnies.

Thurl Ravenscroft's voice was heard during the Pirates of the Caribbean ride as well as The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland as Uncle Theodore, the lead vocalist of the singing busts in the cemetery near the end of the ride.

Thurl Ravenscroft played the Narrator in The Story and Song From the Haunted Mansion.

Thurl Ravenscroft is heard in the Enchanted Tiki Room as the voice of Fritz the Animatronics parrot, as well as the tree-like Tangaroa tiki god in the pre-show outside the attraction.

Thurl Ravenscroft was the voice of the Disneyland Railroad in the 1990s.

Thurl Ravenscroft was accidentally uncredited, leading the song to be misattributed to Boris Karloff and Tennessee Ernie Ford.

The song, now credited to Thurl Ravenscroft, peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 32 for the week ending January 2,2021.

Thurl Ravenscroft sang "No Dogs Allowed" in the Peanuts animated motion picture Snoopy Come Home.

Thurl Ravenscroft was teamed up with the Andrews Sisters on the cover of Johnny Cymbal's "Mr Bass Man".

Thurl Ravenscroft married June Seamans in 1946 and they had two children.

Thurl Ravenscroft died at his home on May 22,2005, from prostate cancer, at the age of 91.

Thurl Ravenscroft was buried at the Memorial Gardens at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.