Celebrities with imposing voices

95% of the time - they've worked on it. That's not their natural voice. Bacall is well known for changing her voice.

Marilyn Monroe also went in the opposite direction - higher and breathier. She didn't normally talk like that.

Wendy Malik

Jon Hamm

Pat Carroll.

Tony Todd

Alec Baldwin, especially as Jack Donaghy.

Michael Emerson

Karen Walker

That self-assured shrill voice is the product of pills, superiority and vodka.

Ethel Merman

Maya Angelo

Carl Kassel

Charles Kuralt

Dixie Carter

Morgan Freeman

Charlton Heston

Buddy Ebsen

Andy Griffith

Walter Cronkite

I know he's a creeper, but Kevin Spacey

Kathleen Turner's husky babe voice has a certain gravity for me.

Andre Braugher, especially as Captain Holt.

Best delivery of YASS QUEEN in the history of its usage at about 0:48.

bob Barker.

Gregory Peck

Joan Crawford gets her own category, but especially as Mrs. Markham: the Queen Mother of DLers.

Sam Elliott

Orson Welles

Peter Coyote

Writer, Shelby Foote

Historian, Robert Penn Warren

Patrick Stewart.

DL fav Sharon Stone has a wonderfully deep voice

Peter Coyote.

Sir David Lochary yelling his lines in a disgusted fury

Jared Kusner

Liam Neeson

Bette Davis.

Sir Ian McKellen.

Paul Scofield.

John Castle.

Richard Burton.

They have graveltas!

Barry White

Patricia Neal

Richard Burton

Liam Neeson

Vin Diesel

Scarlett Johansson

No Kathleen Turner?

Kiefer Sutherland

Tig Notaro

Lauren Bacall

Sam Elliott

Bea Arthur

Samuel L. Jackson.

Kyle Chandler

Leonard Nemoy

Patrick Stuart

Jonathan Frakes

Michael Dorn

Michelle Forbes

Avery Brooks

Nana Visitor

Kate Mulgrew

Jennifer Lien

Tim Russ

Lynne Thigpen.

Tom Baker (the 4th Doctor Who)

Nancy Kulp

James Mason

Errol Brown, frontman for 'Hot Chocolate' Deep sexy voice...mmmmmmm

Helen Lawson

Brenda Vaccaro

Ian McShane

Hugo Weaving

Laurence Fishburne

David Palmer

Mercedes McCambridge

R46, great mention.

Charles Dance

Helen Mirren

Christian Bale

Peter Dinklage

Benedict Cumberbatch

Maya Angelo did NOT sound authoritative to me. She was a pretentious cunt, a clown, and a phoney.

Roscoe Lee Brown

Phoebe English Tyler Walligford

[quote]Marilyn Monroe also went in the opposite direction - higher and breathier. She didn't normally talk like that.

Clint Eastwood supposedly based his voca styling on Marilyn, if I remember his ex girlfriend's book correctly.

Actors who did the opposite of Clint and butched up their voices: Benedict Cumberbatch and Jeremy Renner. Bendict can use his to good effect and be commanding with it in the right roles.

Jeremy, not so much. He still sounds whiny, although not as high pitched as he did in a video interview with his father, way back when he was still an unknown- both he and his father had surprisingly high voices.

^ *vocal

RDJ sort of grew into his voice. He always had it - it's more a matter of Marvel-era context.

James Earl Jones is deservedly celebrated for his magnificent vocal work as Darth Vader, but Peter Cushing as the arguably more powerful and malevolent Grand Moff Tarkin in New Hope deserves a close second place.

In fact, the original Star Wars trilogy is a a masterpiece of non-verbal vocal and voice-over art. There is no point where we don't think we're hearing languages.

[quote] Clint Eastwood supposedly based his voca styling on Marilyn, if I remember his ex girlfriend's book correctly.

Are you sure it wasn't Jackie Kennedy he based it on?

Joe Biden

Lockhart said Monroe in her book, r57. Clint denies it, of course.

Jeremy Irons

Eric Braeden aka The Great Victor Newman of Y&R fame.

Robert Downey Jr. seemed to age into his voice, which he always had.