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He was the Ghost Host on the "Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion" record, and although he didn't voice the role in the ride itself (that was originally Paul Frees), Renaday did a lot of other Disney theme park voices, including some of the Country Bears, Abe Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents, and Captain Nemo on the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. A French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana (his real last name was Renoudet), he had a great speaking voice and could assume almost any type of voice and accent; his repertoire ranged from the James-Mason-influenced suavity of his Nemo voiceover to the squeakiness of Mickey Mouse on several Disney recordings. In addition to his Disney records and theme park voices, he was a member of a charity repertory company called the Disney Players and had small face-acting roles in most of the Disney sci-fi and fantasy comedies of the later 1960s and the 1970s, like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and The Shaggy D.A. His most famous non-Disney work was probably the voice of Splinter in the 1980s-1990sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
The single performance I remember him best for is in "Her Chance to Dream," one of the best episodes of the best Disney Afternoon animated show, Talespin; it's a surprisingly bittersweet and haunting romantic ghost story, with Renaday as the spirit of a long-dead sea captain who begins a romance with the show's female lead, Becky (voiced by Sally Struthers). The climactic parting scene from the episode never fails to move me, and it gives me the words to complete this memorial: "Now take to the heavens, illusionary ships, forever and always to sail the skies; now part from this world, on wings to arrive."
He was the Ghost Host on the "Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion" record, and although he didn't voice the role in the ride itself (that was originally Paul Frees), Renaday did a lot of other Disney theme park voices, including some of the Country Bears, Abe Lincoln in the Hall of Presidents, and Captain Nemo on the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride. A French-speaking Cajun from Louisiana (his real last name was Renoudet), he had a great speaking voice and could assume almost any type of voice and accent; his repertoire ranged from the James-Mason-influenced suavity of his Nemo voiceover to the squeakiness of Mickey Mouse on several Disney recordings. In addition to his Disney records and theme park voices, he was a member of a charity repertory company called the Disney Players and had small face-acting roles in most of the Disney sci-fi and fantasy comedies of the later 1960s and the 1970s, like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and The Shaggy D.A. His most famous non-Disney work was probably the voice of Splinter in the 1980s-1990sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
The single performance I remember him best for is in "Her Chance to Dream," one of the best episodes of the best Disney Afternoon animated show, Talespin; it's a surprisingly bittersweet and haunting romantic ghost story, with Renaday as the spirit of a long-dead sea captain who begins a romance with the show's female lead, Becky (voiced by Sally Struthers). The climactic parting scene from the episode never fails to move me, and it gives me the words to complete this memorial: "Now take to the heavens, illusionary ships, forever and always to sail the skies; now part from this world, on wings to arrive."
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