Hi. I saw your wonderful Bullwinkle pages and wondered if you’d know who of Paul Frees’ family is alive, and contact info for them? I’m wanting to write a book on him.
You’ll be pleased to know that I’m also writing a book on The Great Gildersleeve with someone who has access to ULTRA-rare Walter Tetley stuff! It’ll be out this summer.
Thanks.
Congrats are an order, Ben, on your books! It looks like you have at least one, that will be published, for sure, and I hope that the other one will be published as well! I do know that Paul Frees’ wife (at least the one, to whom he was married when he corresponded with me) was Beverly Frees. I later learned, when I read Keith Scott’s book, THE MOOSE THAT ROARED, that Paul Frees was married quite a few times (about 5-6 times if I remember correctly).
That would be the only relative, blood or otherwise, whom I would know anything about. When Paul Frees responded to my letter, unlike all of the other voice-over artists, he never gave me his home address; he just used a return address for his talent agent (the original address through which I had contacted him). I do not even know if his agent, Charles Stern is still living. If you have not already tried to contact him, I do still have a business address for him, albeit a very old address.
Regarding the Paul Frees book, if you do publish it, I hope that you would be willing to credit me if you use any of the anecdotes, and tidbits, about Paul that you read here. Although probably the majority of the details, that I have covered in my article on him, have already been duplicated elsewhere (from interviews and research that others have done), there are at least a few very specific details, that I have mentioned, that I am sure can be found nowhere else, at all………..highly specific and intricate personal nuggets that I gleaned solely from his own personal taped letter to me.
We do not make any money, at all, from THE WALTER TETLEY WEB PAGE. I do this purely for fun and my love of Jay Ward’s cartoon shows and the voice-over artists. I also do this because of my love of teaching, and learning, as a former college Spanish Instructor. As I had said, in another email, I enjoyed not just teaching others, but also learning a lot from my students as well. The people who have responded, to the PEABODY’S PONY EXPRESS, have actually taught me a lot more than my students ever did!
Finally I also do this page because of my love of writing and research. That was something that I developed a taste for, when I was working on my MA in Spanish (though to be completely honest, I have enjoyed writing since I was about fourteen or fifteen years old, around the time that I wrote to these many voice-over stars).
What I am leading up to………Because we do this purely for fun, and, hopefully, to intellectually stimulate discussion and learning (and because we make not even one thin dime, on our efforts) it would be nice to receive credit, for the work that we have done here, which is truly unique.
One closing remark. I cannot tell you how happy we are to receive some comments on one of the people who shares this web page with Walter Tetley. Though we have dedicated this Jay Ward cartoon web page, to Walter Tetley, we do enjoy hearing from readers who honor the other talent, from the shows, as well.
We also received an email, the same day as yours, from another reader, who asked some questions about the Animators of PEABODY’S IMPROBABLE HISTORY. That, too, was a very interesting question, for us. No one had asked such a question, at all, before this date!
Best Wishes to you and to your literary endeavors!
Brian