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Jackie Vernon (born Ralph Verrone; March 29, 1924 – November 10, 1987) was an American comedian and actor who was best known for his role as the voice of Frosty the Snowman in the Rankin/Bass Productions Christmas special Frosty the Snowman and its sequel, Frosty's Winter Wonderland.
While the Frosty special is 30 minutes long, and the Rudolph special runs 60 minutes, this film is feature-length, at 97 minutes long (120 minutes on television, including commercials). Jackie Vernon returned as the voice of Frosty for the final time. Jack Frost also makes a brief return from Frosty's Winter Wonderland.
Generations of TV viewers know Billy De Wolfe only by his voice, such as the voice of the finicky but inept magician Professor Hinkle in the animated 1969 Christmas special Frosty the Snowman. That supporting character speaks with De Wolfe's precise but exaggerated diction: "Mess-y, mess-y, mess-y! Sill-y, sill-y, sill-y! Bus-y, bus-y, bus-y!"
Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and vaudevillian.He is known for his work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter Lantz, Rankin/Bass and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation, and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. [1]
The Legend of Frosty the Snowman (2005) Bill Fagerbakke took over as Frosty's voice after Vernon's death. Frosty Returns (1992) is a sequel to the original song, set in a separate fictional universe from the other specials, with John Goodman as the voice of Frosty defending the value of snow against Mr. Twitchell (Brian Doyle-Murray), the maker ...
Frosty The Snowman (CBS, 1969) Directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin. Written by Romeo Muller. Here, Jimmy Durante (like his cartooned colleagues Burl Ives and Fred Astaire before him) serves ...
That latter entry found Rudolph amidst the Rankin/Bass world of Frosty the Snowman, which premiered on CBS in 1969, while Rudolph also made his cameo appearances in two more Animagic TV specials ...
The stop-motion special was produced by the late Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., who were already known for 1964’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 1969’s Frosty the Snowman and 1970’s ...