Who's Who: Santa Voices Trivia Quiz

Answer: Alec Baldwin

Nicholas St. North, voiced by Alec Baldwin, is Santa Claus, and lives at the North Pole. As the Guardian of Wonder, he is the leader of a group of Guardians that also include Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny. Pitch Black is bringing nightmares to the children of the world, and the Guardians are at risk because people no longer believe in them. Jack Frost has become a new Guardian, and with the help of one boy who still believes, defeats Pitch.

Known for his many movie roles, including "Beetlejuice" (1988) and "The Avaiator" (2004), as well as winning two Emmy Awards for his role as Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" (2006-2013), Alec Baldwin has had several voice roles. In addition to playing Nicholas St. Nick, he has voiced Makunga from "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (2008), Dennis in "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" (2004), and Boss Baby in the 2017 movie of the same name.

Answer: Tim Conway

In "Saving Santa" one of the stable elves, played by Martin Freeman, saves the North Pole from invasion by going back in time.

Tim Conway, known for becoming a regular on "The Carol Burnett Show" in 1975, also hosted his own shows, "The Tim Conway Show" (1970), "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour (1970), and "The Tim Conway Show (1980-81). He has also had a variety of voice roles, such as the voice of Barnacle Boy on "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999) and Hermie on "Hermie & Friends" (2003-10).

Answer: Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney was the voice of Kris Kringle, or Santa Claus in "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town". After his mail truck breaks down, the mailman, Special Delivery "S.D." Kluger, tells a group of children the story of Santa. According to him, Santa was an orphan named Kris who was adopted by a group of brothers who were elves with the last name of Kringle. He ran into trouble with the law when he delivered toys in spite of the fact that there was a law against doing just that. That is why his deliveries were made at night. Eventually the law was abolished and the people, who looked up to Kris, canonized him as a saint, making him Santa Claus.

Rooney starred in a wide variety of voice roles during his long career, and even played Santa Claus again in "The Year Without a Santa Claus" (1974), "Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July" (1979), "The Happy Elf" (2005), and "A Miser Brothers Christmas" (2008).

Answer: Tom Hanks

Actually Tom Hanks voiced six roles on "The Polar Express", including Santa, the Conductor, the Hobo, and the Narrator. As Santa, he gives a jingle bell to a young boy who isn't sure that Santa exists. Only those who truly believe in Santa can hear the bell ring.

Hanks is no stranger to voice parts as he played the role of Woody in "Toy Story" (1995), "Toy Story 2" (1999), and "Toy Story 3" (2010). He was also the voice of Woody Car in "Cars" (2006).

Answer: William Shatner

Eek is a purple cat whose desire to help others usually results in some sort of problem. In "It's a Very Merry Eek's Mas - Eek! The Cat", Eek takes his friend with him to see Santa. The two help Santa because his reindeer are on strike.

When speaking of William Shatner, his role as James T. Kirk on "Star Trek" (1966-69) comes to mind pretty quickly. He also played a policeman named "T.J. Hooker" in a show with the same name from 1982-86. He voiced Santa Claus in the 2008 "Gotta Catch Santa Claus", Oscar in "The Steam Engines of Oz (2008), and Two-Face/Harvey Dent in "Batman vs Two Face" (2017).

Answer: Hal Smith

In "A Flintstone Christmas" Fred is chosen by his boss, Mr. Slate, to be Santa Claus for the children in Bedrock Orphanage. He must fill in, however, for the real Santa after he falls from Fred's roof and has a sprained ankle.

You may well know Hal Smith as Otis on "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-68), but he voiced many characters during his career, including Owl in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (1977). He also voiced Santa Claus in a 1964 episode called "Christmas Flintstone", an episode of "The Brady Bunch" (1969), and "Santa and the Three Bears" (1970).

Answer: Paul Frees

"Frosty the Snowman" recounts the story of the beloved snowman and the childrens' quest to keep him from melting.

Known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices" due to his four octave voice range, Paul Frees played Boris in "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" (1961-64). He also voiced Santa in "Rudolph"s Shiny New Year" (1976). Although he did not play Santa in "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" (1970), he did voice 6 characters in the movie.

Answer: Bruce McGill

In this episode of "Family Guy", Stewie and Brian go to the North Pole so that Stewie can kill (?) Santa Claus. Instead they feel sorry for the overworked man and try to help him deliver presents, albeit unsuccessfully. They do leave, however, with a better understanding of the difficulty of Santa's job, and try to convince everyone to ask for just one present a year to give Santa some much-needed time off.

Bruce McGill has appeared in a number of roles that include Daniel Simpson in "Animal House" (1978) and Jack Dalton on "MacGyver" (1985-92), but he is also credited with a long list of voice roles. He voiced Llyod Waterman on "The Cleveland Show" (2009), as well as Simon Turner on the "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" (1999) video game.

Answer: Frank Welker

Alvin gives his harmonica to a sick boy, thinking that he can save enough money after Christmas to buy a new one. But the Chipmunks are asked to sing at Carnegie Hall and Alvin is to play his harmonica. Simon and Theodore try to help, but they just don't have enough money to buy a new one. David is angry, thinking that Alvin just wants money for himself, until the boy's mother finds him and tells how much the harmonica had helped her son's health improve. In the end, Mrs. Claus sees that Alvin gets a new harmonica.

Frank Weller has a long list of voice roles to his credit. He has been the voice of Fred in "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" since 1969, and has voiced Scooby himself since 2002. He even voiced Santa's Little Helper on "The Simpsons" (1999-2002).

Answer: Peter Cullen

Santa has suffered a terrible accident while trying to avoid Clyde and Pac-Man helps get his deliveries to the children.

Peter Cullen, a Canadian actor, as been in show business for quite some time. He was the announcer on "The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show" (1974), "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" (1967-68), and "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" (1971-74). He was also the voice actor who played Optimus Prime in the original "Transformers" in the 1980s. He reprised the role in several of the Transformers video games that were released from 2007-2016.