Thurl Ravenscroft

• Birthplace: Norfolk, Nebraska, USA
• Birthday: February 6, 1914

Best known as the affable voice behind Tony the Tiger, TV's popular cartoon pitchman for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes for more than 50 years, Thurl Ravenscroft also lent his distinctive basso tones to a host of Disney characters and the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the popular holiday TV classic " Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

Born in Norfolk, Neb., Ravenscroft moved to California in 1933 to study art. By the mid-1930s he was appearing regularly on radio, first on a program titled &…more