Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and singer with a deep, booming voice. For concluded L years, he wwhen better known as a voice of Tony the Tiger in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes television commercials (also known as Frosties). Ravenscroft was besides a singer of the song "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the Christmas television special based on the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, although his name was accidentally left off of the credits, leading many to believe, erroneously, that the cartoon's narrator, Boris Karloff, sang the song.

His voice is besides heard inside numerous Disneyland attractions. He is the voices of 'Buff'- a buffalo head on the United states Bear Jamboree, lead vocaliser on the theme song "Grim Grinning Ghosts" in a Haunted Mansion (the bust that numbers of population develop mistaken for Walt Disney), "Fritz" a German accent parrot in a Tiki Room, Storyteller on a Disneyl& Railroad (non a voice that announces a train boarding or even departing), the original voice of the Number one Mate on the Mark Twain Steamship and one of the bass voices in the chorus of "It's a Small World". He is occasionally mistaken for Paul Frees who provides a opening narration for The Haunted Mansion.

More familiar cartoons include The Brave Little Toaster. He likewise provided a voice of the pig inside Mary Poppins.

Ravenscroft left his native Norfolk, Nebraska for California in 1933. He achieved early profits when the share of a cantabile class action known as The Mellomen. A Mellomen may be heard in numerous popular recordings of the Big Band Era, including as backup for Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney.

When you took World War II he served as a navigator in the U.S. Air Transport Command, spending five years flying courier missions across the north and south Atlantic. Among a guiding light carried in board his flights were Winston Churchill and Bob Hope.

In the '60s and '70s, Ravenscroft's distinctive bass can be heard as part of the chorus on 28 albums of The Johnny Mann Singers that were released during this period. In the '80s and '90s, Ravenscroft was narrator for the annual Pageant of the Masters Art Show at the Laguna, California Festival of the Arts.

He passed away around his front yard in May 22, 2005 from prostate cancer at the age of 91. He was bury at a Memorial Gardens at a Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California.

In the June 6, 2005, issue of the ad-industry journal Advertising Age, Kellogg ran an ad commemorating Ravenscroft. A headline read: "Behind every great character is an even greater man."