Trivia

He is the Ghost Host or narrator at the Haunted Mansion Attraction & Adventure Thru Innerspace (now Star Tours) at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

Was often called upon in the 1950s and '60s to re-loop the dialogue of other actors, often to correct for foreign accents, complete lack of English proficiency, or poor line readings by non-professionals. These dubs extended from a line to entire roles.

His early radio career was cut short when he was drafted into the US Army in World War II. He was at Normandy on D-Day, was wounded in action and returned to the US for a year of recuperation.

In the early 1970, he was reportedly making $50,000 a year just for doing the voice work of the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Dubbed the feminine "Josephine" voice for Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot (1959).

Is heard as at least four different voices in Spartacus (1960), including the guard whom Kirk Douglas hamstrung in the opening sequence.

He has appeared in eight films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Thing from Another World (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), Some Like It Hot (1959), Spartacus (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Mary Poppins (1964), & In Cold Blood (1967).

As one of Hollywood's leading voice artists, a significant part of his income came from doing uncredited voice work on a multitude of movie trailers. Not the least of which was Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) and its spoof, Hardware Wars (1978). He also provided the voice of the Ghost Host at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion and for Adventure Thru Innerspace, which has since been replaced by Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (2011).

He became so experienced at doing multiple characters on radio shows that in 1948 he was given his own show, "The Player" in which he would do all of the characters.

Got his start in radio doing voice work for dramas and comedies. He was known for his incredible impersonation of Orson Welles. Reportedly he played all of the roles in a 15-minute show called "The Speaker." His work included animation, for which he provided the voices in innumerable cartoons, but notably for such characters as Fox (Frank Tashlin's "Fox & Crow" series), Ludwig Von Drake (numerous educational shorts by Walt Disney Productions), Boris Badenov (Jay Ward's The Bullwinkle Show (1959)), Inspector Fenwick (Ward's The Dudley Do-Right Show (1969)), Morocco Mole (Hanna-Barbera's The Secret Squirrel Show (1965)), Barney Bear (title character from an MGM series of shorts) and was the original voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Provides multiple voices in Flight from Ashiya (1964), getting into three- and four-way conversations with himself.

Was also the unseen voice of never-seen TV billionaire character "John Beresford Tipton" on the very popular TV series The Millionaire (1955) starring Marvin Miller.

He attended the Chouinard Art Institute under the G.I. Bill. His first wife's failing health forced him to drop out and return to radio work.

It was common for voice artists to do multiple roles when dubbing foreign-language films into English. There are a number of examples in which he also did multiple roles when replacing the dialogue (looping) in Hollywood films.

According to author Peter Guralnick (in "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley"), Frees was an undercover narcotics agent for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the 1960s.

Was one of Stan Freberg's cast of performers, most notably as the narrator of "Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Vol. 1.".

He was cremated at Monte's Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo, California. His ashes were subsequently sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. Beverly Hills, California's Temple Emanuel hosted a memorial service for him on November 13, 1986.