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The Voice of the Thief (not Jonathan Winters)


Looking over at Ken Nordine's imdb page, his filmography lists him as the voice of the Thief. Which version is that in and does he have many lines like in the Winters version?

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I'm guessing it's all of the wheezing sounds the Thief makes in the original Williams cut (like when the Thief is being attacked by the nurse right at the beginning), but I could be wrong.

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Back when I used to work at Fox TV, we aired a version of this a few times and it was the one that Ken Nordine voiced. That was the "Arabian Knight" version. Ken Nordine's thief talked constantly. Ken Nordine has a distinctive voice, and had an NPR show called "Word Jazz." Here's a link to the website for that so you can get a sense of his voice: http://www.wordjazz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsect ion&id=5&Itemid=32

The Thief voiced by Ken Nordine sounded exactly like that, including the dreamy talking-to-himself quality of it. Absolutely endless banter.

Actually, I just found this on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwNebK5AooA That sounds like Ken Nordine, but it is credited as Winters. I wonder if the person who uploaded it mislabled it as Arabian Knight when it was really The Thief and The Cobbler...?

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