Best (male actor) speaking voice...

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Richard Burton
Cary Grant

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Another vote for Richard Burton here. Anthony Hopkins and Patrick Stewart would be my other suggestions.

 

[skyscraper101]

Simon Callow

 

[Strumpet]

Richard Burton
Anthony Hopkins (that ad where he says "spook" makes me feel funny...in a good way!)
Sean Connery *flutter*

 

[Andy the Don]

Sir Ian McKellen
John Hurt
Sir Laurence Olivier - World at War documentry series.

 

[gnoriac]

Brian Blessed
And for the real ac-tor voice, Donald Sinden.

 

[Strumpet]

Brian Blessed

Oooo yesss

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I reckon this is just a thread to big-up the Welsh







































and I've no problems with that whatsoever

 

[DotCommunist]

Jon Hurt

He's particularly good in V is for Vendetta. England Prevails!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Sir Ian McKellen

Hell yeah, he would definitely be my top choice out of UK actors. He pretty much single-handedly made the Lord of the Rings films.

 

[DotCommunist]

Pete Postlethwaite is a good accents man. Compare him in Usual Suspects with him in In the Name of The Father

 

[fogbat]

Jason Statham.

 

[DotCommunist]

Jason Statham.

not a patch on Danny Dyer

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Tom Cruise. I particularly love the way he goes all squeaky when he's excited.

 

[fogbat]

not a patch on Danny Dyer

But the Stath is so versatile!

He can do British-American, American-British, Transatlantic...

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'll go for Richard Burton.

That spud hopkins is an cheap imitator!

 

[Limejuice]

I have a copy of the Burton recording of Under Milk Wood - splendid voice.

I also admire the Irish actor Stanley Townsend. He was recently in an episode of New Tricks. His voice is like Guinness, which is what he's advertising in this clip:



His more stagey voice is here:

 

[elevendayempire]

What's wrong with the lot of you? Tom Baker FTW!

 

[Orang Utan]

Sir Laurence Olivier - World at War documentry series.

the way he says 'bomber' never fails to make me snigger like a schoolboy

 

[Lea]

Ralph Fiennes

*swoon*

 

[strung out]

brian cant

 

[scifisam]

Alan Rickman.

Definitely. He could narrate the history of the toilet roll, and I'd put it on just for his voice.

Mind you, if there a show about the history of the toilet roll I'd probably put it on out of curiosity anyway.

 

[London_Calling]

Charles Laughton?

James Mason used to make me laugh sometimes when he overdid it, otherwise he was ok.

 

[Chz]

N'other vote for Rickman.

Also, David Attenborough may not be an actor but nature shows don't sound right without him.

Maybe Vin Diesel when he did The Iron Giant.

 

[Strumpet]

I reckon this is just a thread to big-up the Welsh

and I've no problems with that whatsoever

 

[London_Calling]

Coming soon: Favourite male voice choir.

 

[DotCommunist]

Sean Bean

 

[lolo]

John Hurt
Joss Ackland
the late Ian Richardson

 

[Rock Bottom]

I'm rather amazed that he hasn't been mentioned...

...Vincent Price

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Pete Postlethwaite is a good accents man. Compare him in Usual Suspects with him in In the Name of The Father

I could never work out where his Usual Suspects Character was actually meant to be from.