Philippe Clay

Philippe Clay (1927-2007) was a French singer and actor who dubbed Waldorf in Noël chez les Muppets (The Muppet Christmas Carol).

Clay studied acting, including mime, but first gained national exposure as a singer, performing in tours and recording nearly a dozen albums between 1956 and 1982. He was in the Jean Renoir musical French Cancan and played Clopin in the 1956 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He played a French cabaret singer in the Hollywood movie Bell Book and Candle (with Hermione Gingold) and displayed his mime skills in 1974's Shanks (as Marcel Marceau's brother-in-law, reanimated through marionette movements). Dubbing included Jim Dale in Pete's Dragon and Cardinal Richelieu in a 1973 animated The Three Musketeers.