Date of Birth 3 June 1914, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA Date of Death 12 March 1971, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack) Trivia Widely reported as the original voice of "Tony the Tiger" in Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes commercials in the early 1950s. Kellogg's, however, maintains that Thurl Ravenscroft was always the original voice.
