Who provided the speaking voice of Prince Charming?

William Phipps provided the speaking voice of Prince Charming in Disney’s 1950 Cinderella.

Phipps’s credit is easy to miss because it was uncredited, and the Prince’s vocal work was divided between two performers. Phipps supplied the spoken dialogue, while singer and future television host Mike Douglas provided Prince Charming’s singing voice, including the musical duet “So This Is Love.”

That split explains why Mike Douglas is sometimes incorrectly named as the Prince’s voice without qualification. The question’s wording matters: for speaking voice, the canonical answer is William Phipps. Phipps was an actor whose screen career also included science-fiction and television roles.

Prince Charming has relatively little dialogue in the film compared with Cinderella, the mice, Lady Tremaine, and the King. Even so, his two-part vocal casting is a notable production detail and one of the film’s most commonly overlooked credits.