I just loved toys. I loved things like Star Wars figures, Hot Wheels and those kinda things. But then came 1982. I recieved a lot of presents in my birthday (more than I expected). At first, I thought they were an army of Hot Wheels, but when I opened the first present, I was quite impressed. Inside that paper wrap was a tough looking Infantry Trooper, code-named "Grunt". Then I opened my next present, and I was very impressed by this one. It was a Missile System, and it had an operator as a bonus. After opening all of my presents, I immediately knew I was going to be a very happy kid in the weekends. All the presents were from this brand-new line called G.I. Joe. I was also surprised in my 1984 birthday when, along with having the typical G.I. Joe figures from the year, another line of toys was revealed to me in the shape of transforming mechanical beings. G.I. Joe and The Transformers were my childhood, I read every comic book, I watched their entire cartoon run (I watched G.I. Joe and Transformers until the end of G.I. Joe Extreme and Transformers RiD respectively). Then in 2002, I started venturing on the world of Voice Acting and doing a lot of research about the people that gave life to those characters that I grew up with. I finished my research in January 2014 and I'm going to post it here. This page is intended to be a compendium, an archive about the people that gave life to characters that people have started to know and love and also to give credit to those that were also an important part to the series, but that we never knew they were there in those long hours of recording due to some of the voice actor credits being incomplete.
I would like to thank the following people for helping me in my research (and the year I met them):
-Abby Collins (2012)
-Arlene Banas (2011)
-Arthur Burghardt (2008)
-B.J. Ward (2008)
-Bill Ratner (2003)
-Blu Mankuma (2006)
-Buster Jones (2012)
-Corey Burton (2008)
-Dan Gilvezan (2004)
-David Kaye (2003)
-David Sobolov (2013)
-Dick Gautier (2002)
-Frank Welker (2008)
-Garry Chalk (2003)
-Gregg Berger (2003)
-Hal Rayle (2013)
-Hank Garrett (2003)
-Jack Angel (2008)
-Mary McDonald-Lewis (2003)
-Maurice LaMarche (2013)
-Michael Bell (2008)
-Michael Chain (2005)
-Michael Dobson (2005)
-Michael McConnohie (2002)
-Morgan Lofting (2011)
-Neil Kaplan (2002)
-Neil Ross (2008)
-Paul Dobson (2005)
-Paul Eiding (2010)
-Pauline Newstone (2006)
-Peter Cullen (2006)
-Peter Spellos (2002)
-Richard Epcar (2002)
-Richard Newman (2006)
-Samantha Newark (2013)
-Scott McNeil (2004)
-Sgt. Slaughter (2006)
-Steve Blum (2011)
-Steve Kramer (2002)
-Susan Blu (2005)
-Tom Wyner (2002)
-Wally Burr (2003)*
-Wankus (2002)
-Will Ryan (2012)
* Wally Burr was very helpful and a very important part to my research, he provided me with all of his episode cast lists which I transcribed to my notebooks and which I also returned to him during BotCon 2005 (Or was it after the convention??? Don't remember, but I definetly returned them).
I hope you enjoy this archive of almost 12 years of VA research.
Take care.
Robert Henderson
I would like to thank the following people for helping me in my research (and the year I met them):
-Abby Collins (2012)
-Arlene Banas (2011)
-Arthur Burghardt (2008)
-B.J. Ward (2008)
-Bill Ratner (2003)
-Blu Mankuma (2006)
-Buster Jones (2012)
-Corey Burton (2008)
-Dan Gilvezan (2004)
-David Kaye (2003)
-David Sobolov (2013)
-Dick Gautier (2002)
-Frank Welker (2008)
-Garry Chalk (2003)
-Gregg Berger (2003)
-Hal Rayle (2013)
-Hank Garrett (2003)
-Jack Angel (2008)
-Mary McDonald-Lewis (2003)
-Maurice LaMarche (2013)
-Michael Bell (2008)
-Michael Chain (2005)
-Michael Dobson (2005)
-Michael McConnohie (2002)
-Morgan Lofting (2011)
-Neil Kaplan (2002)
-Neil Ross (2008)
-Paul Dobson (2005)
-Paul Eiding (2010)
-Pauline Newstone (2006)
-Peter Cullen (2006)
-Peter Spellos (2002)
-Richard Epcar (2002)
-Richard Newman (2006)
-Samantha Newark (2013)
-Scott McNeil (2004)
-Sgt. Slaughter (2006)
-Steve Blum (2011)
-Steve Kramer (2002)
-Susan Blu (2005)
-Tom Wyner (2002)
-Wally Burr (2003)*
-Wankus (2002)
-Will Ryan (2012)
* Wally Burr was very helpful and a very important part to my research, he provided me with all of his episode cast lists which I transcribed to my notebooks and which I also returned to him during BotCon 2005 (Or was it after the convention??? Don't remember, but I definetly returned them).
I hope you enjoy this archive of almost 12 years of VA research.
Take care.
Robert Henderson