Omar Sharif or Charles Gray?

ggl007

Sorry if this is not the place for this question.

Can someone confirm whose is the voice in the Son et Lumiere show in TSWLM??

I understand that Omar Sharif did the recording and his voice is still used nowadays. But I've read recently (Some Kind of Hero) that Charles Gray made a voice cameo in that part in TSWLM...

Anyone? Thanks

Thunderpussy

Sorry can't confirm but I'd always read it was Charles Gray.

Golrush007

I've also heard/read several times about Charles Gray having done the voice, but I don't know for certain. I've just rewatched the scene, some bits of it sound very much like Charles Gray, particularly the part: "With each new dawn, I see the sun-god rise on the far bank of the nile" but the earlier section seemed to sound less like Charles Gray.

hehadlotsofguts

Charles Gray's IMDB doesn't list TSWLM, not even as uncredited.

Matt S

hehadlotsofguts wrote:

Charles Gray's IMDB doesn't list TSWLM, not even as uncredited.

Charles Gray has never been confirmed as that voice, which may be why it's not that. It's generally said that Charles Gray did it. I've never heard about Omar Sharif being involved.

hehadlotsofguts

The rumour about Charles Gray being involved in TSWLM has been going around for ages. Not sure when or how it started.

ggl007

Golrush007 wrote:

I've also heard/read several times about Charles Gray having done the voice, but I don't know for certain. I've just rewatched the scene, some bits of it sound very much like Charles Gray, particularly the part: "With each new dawn, I see the sun-god rise on the far bank of the nile" but the earlier section seemed to sound less like Charles Gray.

Thanks everybody!

What I've read is that Gray did the "second part", so maybe you've got it...

Silhouette Man

Well I've never heard this Charles Gray claim until recently so I unfortunately can't confirm or deny the truth of it...

Barbel

IMO it sounds like the late Valentine Dyall, who played the voice of Dr Noah in CR67 (before he's revealed to be Woody Allen). Mr Dyall was a famed radio voice from many years ago- for comparison, here he is reading a Poe tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3BijXNFDA

Sir Miles

Never heard the Charles Gray theory before - and I'd have never thought it was him...I much prefer Barbel's idea -{

ggl007

Barbel wrote:

IMO it sounds like the late Valentine Dyall, who played the voice of Dr Noah in CR67 (before he's revealed to be Woody Allen). Mr Dyall was a famed radio voice from many years ago- for comparison, here he is reading a Poe tale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3BijXNFDA

Interesting, never heard of him...

It doesn't sound like him I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxNyEUMewzg

MilleniumForce

I was always under the impression it is the actual recording that I used in the film? Doesn't sound like Gray to me.

Golrush007

To my ear it sounds like Charles Gray from 01.22 in that Youtube link, but the earlier section is someone else.

Shady Tree

Very hard to tell. Doesn't sound quite like Charles Gray. Could be Valentine Dyall, though possibly not plummy enough for him.