Spoiler : Ravenscroft, Thurl (birth name was Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft) Born in Norfolk, Nebraska 2/6/1914; died 5/22/2005 of prostate cancer in California. He had been a resident of Fullerton, California. He moved to Los Angeles in 1933 to attend the Otis College of Art and Design to pursue a career in advertising. Shortly he dropped out of school, and became a studio singer at Paramount Pictures. Served as a navigator in the WWII Air Transport Command.

Spoiler : Was a member of singing groups including The Sportsmen, The Mellomen and The Johnny Mann Singers. By the middle 1930s, he was appearing on radio, first on a program called Goose Creek Parson. From the middle 1930s, The Sportsmen were singing on radio programs including The Jack Benny Program, and The Eddie Cantor Show. By the late 1930s, he was appearing on broadcasts of Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall, singing backup in a group called Paul Taylor Choristers. His Mellomen Quartet that he formed in 1947, appeared on radio programs including The Charlie McCarthy Show.

Spoiler : The Johnny Mann singers appeared on television shows including The George Gobel Show for NBC (1957-1958); The Eddie Fisher Show for NBC (1959); The Danny Kaye Show for CBS (1963-1964). Many remember his evil rendition of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the television special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which has been telecast annually since 1966. His Mellomen quarter was already singing jingles for Kellogg cereals when he created the stretched-out growl, enhanced with reverberation, that pronounced Frosted Flakes great, as the voice of Tony, the Tiger in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes radio and television commercials that lasted for 53 years. Narrator for the Laguna Beach, California Pageant of the Masters for twenty years.