>The star of The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Hans Conried, was a very familiar voice to audiences in 1953. His cultured sound and impeccable diction was suited to persnickety and often gruff characters, and Conried could easily adopt a number of foreign-sounding accents. He was a regular voice on many radio shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s, often playing villains, doctors, and psychiatrists. 1953 was a very important year in Conried's career; in addition to The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, Conried starred in the quirky science fiction movie The Twonky, and made his Broadway debut in the show Can Can.

>Unfortunately, The Twonky and The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T were both failures at the box office, and Conried was seldom given another starring role in a movie. Yet another of his 1953 roles was as the voice of Captain Hook in the Walt Disney feature-length cartoon Peter Pan, which was an enormous hit at the box-office. So, for the rest of his career until his death in 1982, Conried was a familiar face in supporting roles in movies and television, and a recurring voice in many animated cartoons, including The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, The Woody Woodpecker Show, and Hoppity Hopper.