What is the name of the actor who voices the Flying Dutchman?

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The actor who voices the Flying Dutchman is Brian Doyle-Murray.

The Flying Dutchman is a recurring ghostly pirate in SpongeBob SquarePants, portrayed as a supernatural sailor who haunts the seas around Bikini Bottom. Brian Doyle-Murray supplies the character’s deep, gruff voice, giving the Dutchman an exaggerated pirate personality that fits the show’s comic horror style.

Doyle-Murray is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is also known for appearing alongside his younger brother Bill Murray in films including Caddyshack, Scrooged, and Groundhog Day. His SpongeBob role is one of his prominent animation performances, and the character has appeared in stories involving ghostly threats, supernatural bargains, and elaborate punishments.

The wrong options are other major SpongeBob performers, which makes this question easy to confuse. Clancy Brown voices Mr. Krabs, Bill Fagerbakke voices Patrick Star, and Tom Kenny voices SpongeBob. None of those actors is the Flying Dutchman’s original English voice.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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