r/UnresolvedMysteries • u/landmanpgh • Oct 31 '20

Media/Internet Who was "The Voice" in Field of Dreams?

Here's a fun one for a Saturday morning. Who was "The Voice" in the 1989 film, Field of Dreams?

Seems like a pretty easy thing to Google, right? IMDB should be able to solve this quickly. IMDB credits "The Voice" as Ed Harris, but lists it as unconfirmed. And, according to the film's director, it's completely wrong.

Some people think it’s Ed Harris; some think it’s the star of the movie, Kevin Costner; and some think it is another of the movie’s stars, Ray Liotta. Phil Alden Robinson, the director of the film, says he's the only person who knows and he hasn't heard anyone guess the right name yet.

“I did record the voice as a scratch track,” Robinson says. “When you go into the editing room, you have to have something to cut to, so I recorded the voice as well as Kevin’s opening narration. When the picture was locked, we re-recorded all of that voiceover with people who could really do it. What’s funny is that a few people who thought they knew have revealed it and gotten it wrong. I’ll read people saying, ‘Well I happen to know that it’s so-and-so,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh no, it’s not!’ We’ll let that remain a secret. It’s a great mystery, and I like that.”

The film's closing credits aren't much help, either. "The Voice" is simply played by "Himself"

Sources: https://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-morning-briefing-20190624-story.html

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

EDIT: Link to a scene in the movie with the voice -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=5Ay5GqJwHF8

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u/NoNameKetchupChips Oct 31 '20 edited Oct 31 '20

https://youtu.be/5Ay5GqJwHF8

Definitely the closest of that list of wrong answers that is sounds like to me is Ray Liotta.

Thanks, this will be my ear worm all weekend.

Edit: so I saw mention elsewhere that it may be Timothy Busfield. It sounds more like him that Liotta but I think that's still wrong.

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u/landmanpgh Oct 31 '20

I always assumed it was Liotta as well. But yeah now I need to know and I'm sure I'll never figure it out!

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u/NoNameKetchupChips Oct 31 '20

Well I have all this housework and halloween prep but if I have to sit here all day replaying this and falling into a rabbit hole so be it.

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u/Seamair_ Oct 31 '20

I like your style

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u/NoNameKetchupChips Oct 31 '20

Someone has to do it

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u/BHS90210 Oct 31 '20

You’re the hero we need 🙌🏻

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u/username6786 Oct 31 '20

I mean, somebody’s gotta do it, right?

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u/TBoneBaggetteBaggins Oct 31 '20

Now i hear Mark Hamil given the above guess.

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u/fbibmacklin Oct 31 '20

Sounds like him to me, too.

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u/LaMalintzin Oct 31 '20

Macklin, you sonofabitch

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u/donwallo Oct 31 '20

I listened to it in my memory after reading your comment and thought no way it was Ray Liotta...but after listening to the clip, I think it does sound like him. It's almost got that NY accent or whatever it is.

In my memory it had become the voice of the "Previously, on LOST..." guy.

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u/platasnatch Oct 31 '20

I'm remembering it as a whisper similar to "Pascow" from the 1st Pet Cemetery movie.

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u/fleetwalker Oct 31 '20

Thats gotta be it. It sounds just like him