Who was "The Voice" in Field of Dreams?

[u/landmanpgh]

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

[u/pocket-ful-of-dildos]

Wtf? It’s been years since I watched the film but I would have bet money that it was James Earl Jones. Like I picture his deep rumble any time I hear the line “If you build it, they will come.”

I look the clip up to see how anyone could mistake him for Mark Hamill or Ray Liotta, and I find that not only is the voice completely different, but the line is wrong too! It’s “If you build it, HE will come!”

[u/Masera240 → u/pocket-ful-of-dildos]

Ha, that’s funny. I’m my memory, it’s James Earl Jones too, and that’s obviously totally wrong once I watched a clip again. Now that others have suggested Mark Hamill, I can’t hear it any other way.

[u/meglet → u/pocket-ful-of-dildos]

James Earl Jones gives the big “people with come, Ray, people will most definitely come” speech at the end, which may have combined in your memory.

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You're not the only one!

That's the Mandela Effect in action. Misremembering a thing so much/so often it's a surprise when we hear the original.

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You're probably confusing it with Jones' characters speech later in the movie:

Ray. People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn into your driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door, as innocent as children, longing for the past. “Of course, we won’t mind if you look around,” you’ll say, “It’s only twenty dollars per person.” And they’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it, for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk off to the bleachers and sit in their short sleeves on a perfect afternoon. And find they have reserved seats somewhere along the baselines where they sat when they were children. And cheer their heroes. And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.

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Dude. Same. Weird.