Date of Birth : Jan 1st 1970
Voice actor who is best known for providing the voices for Optimus Prime and Ironhide, in the original Transformers series and the narrator in both American Voltron series (he subsequently reprised the role of Optimus in Michael Bay’s live-action Transformers film series). In addition, he has played Coran and King Alfor in the Lion Voltron series, the transforming spaceship/robot Ramrod in the 1980s anime series Saber Rider And The Star Sheriffs, Commander James Hawkins in the Vehicle Voltron series, Eeyore in Winnie-the-Pooh, KARR in Knight Rider, Antor and Bomba, and Gunner, in Dino-Riders, and Mantus in The Pirates of Dark Water. In 1968 he appeared as ‘Giles’ with Joan Stuart as ‘Penelope’ in ‘L’Anglaise’, a CBC comedy about a French-Canadian husband with an English-Canadian wife (CBC’s ‘Funny You Should Say That’).