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Jul 30, 2022 · THE HAUNTED MANSION: GHOST HOST Recording Sessions PAUL FREES Enjoy the original recording sessions PAUL FREES performed as the Haunted Mansion's GHOST HOST ...more.
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Burton also recorded Frees's Ghost Host lines for Walt Disney Pictures' 2003 film adaptation of the ride. Voice actor Jim Kirk has also done several impressions of the "Ghost Host" at Disney's Haunted Mansion on Instagram and TikTok, channeling his inner Paul Frees for dramatic effect. [28]
He is the Ghost Host or narrator at the Haunted Mansion Attraction & Adventure Thru Innerspace (now Star Tours) at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
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Paul Frees and Leo Gordon in Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)- Paul Frees in A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Robert Cornthwaite, Paul Frees, Dewey Martin, Bill Neff, Robert Nichols, Douglas Spencer, Kenneth Tobey, and James Young in The Thing from Another World (1951)
- Robert Cornthwaite, John Dierkes, Paul Frees, Dewey Martin, Bill Neff, and Kenneth Tobey in The Thing from Another World (1951)
- Robert Cornthwaite, George Fenneman, Paul Frees, Everett Glass, Norbert Schiller, and Margaret Sheridan in The Thing from Another World (1951)
- Robert Cornthwaite, John Dierkes, Paul Frees, Dewey Martin, Bill Neff, Robert Nichols, William Self, Douglas Spencer, Kenneth Tobey, and James Young in The Thing from Another World (1951)
- Paul Frees and Arnold Leibovit in The Puppetoon Movie (1987)
- Robert Ellis, Paul Frees, Thomas Browne Henry, Court Shepard, and Bill Williams in Space Master X-7 (1958)
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Background
The Ghost Host is a disembodied spirit who speaks in a deep, resonant voice with a transatlantic accent. Although his character's history is mostly shrouded in mystery it is known that he died by being hanged in the cupolaof the mansion. On his death he refers to it as having been his way out, implying that he took his own life by suicide. In the portraits shown of the host, he is commonly depicted as a tall, Caucasian, skinny man with unkept white/pale blonde hair, a crooked nose, and his ri...
History
The image of a hanged suicide as an element of The Haunted Mansion originates from the earliest concepts proposed by Imagineer Ken Anderson in the late 1950s. His first attempts at a story revolved around Captain Gore, a secret pirate who murdered his young wife Priscilla (after she discovered the truth about him). In some versions (albeit not all of them), Captain Gore had been haunted by Priscilla and ended up hanging himself. The tour guide in this version wasn't a ghost, but a live butler...
The Haunted Mansion
The Ghost Host's disembodied voice narrates the entire first half of the attraction, from the Foyer to the immediate aftermath of Madame Leota's séance. At this point, the Ghost Host informs the guests that, as the happy haunts are beginning to materialize and readying for a big party, they'll probably be expecting him, and that he must now temporarily leave them, although he says that he'll “see them all… a little later”. He is nowhere to be heard until the guests begin to exit the Graveyard...
Master Gracey, Ghost Host and tangled-up knots
Finding an identity to the Ghost Host has always been a problem among the Haunted Mansion's fandom. Ever since the "Master Gracey" tombstone has been noticed in the graveyard, there have been speculations by fans that Master Gracey is also the "Master of the House" (another erroneous interpretation of the Aging Man character from the changing portrait), due to a misunderstanding of the name ("master", in 19th century Louisiana, referred to a young man not quite a teenager anymore but not yet...
Other identifications
Separately from the "Master Gracey-Master of the House-Hanging Man-Hatchet Man" mythos, there have been a few other attempts at creating a backstory for the ghost host, sometimes identifying him with other characters. 1. Phineas Pock, proposed Lord and Master of the Haunted Mansion. 2. The original plans of the Imagineers during the late fifties was that the "main" ghost of the house and master of the Mansion would be a sea captain with a tragic backstory, named in some concepts Bartholomew G...
The Ghost Host has had several voice-actors over several different incarnations.In an interview with Corey Burton, he stated, "the Ghost Host, to me, is the voice of the structure itself. It comes from the walls."Despite the character not appearing in the attraction, several homages and elements taking influence from the Ghost Host can be found within Disneyland Paris' Haunted Mansion, Phantom Manor.There is a proposed reference to the Ghost Host in the 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, itself being based on the Haunted Mansion's sister-attraction. On the island of Isla Cru...Some of his most memorable voice performances are still playing today at Disney Parks: Paul is the Ghost Host in the Haunted Mansion, and many of the various Pirates of the Caribbean. Paul Frees passed away on November 2, 1986, in Tiburon, California.
When Disney asked voice actor Paul Frees to record the patter for the "Ghost Host" of the Haunted Mansion, Frees had to make an interesting choice: what does...
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Paul Frees provided voices for numerous characters at Disney parks, including the unseen “Ghost Host” (also known as Master Gracey) in the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and several audio-animatronic pirates, including the Auctioneer, in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
