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Pants said:
Mark Hammill is THE Joker. The Quintessential Joker. He also does Solomon Grundy on JL.

David Warner, an old british actor (he played the Klingon Ambassador in ST 6 plus several other Star Trek roles), has done a ton of voice acting, including Irenicus from Baldur's Gate 2 and he also did voices for the old Men in Black cartoon. Great actor.

Tim Curry also played Stratos, the God of Air, in the PC Game Sacrifice.
David Warner's best animation piece, by FAR, is as Batman's other nemesis, R'as al Ghul, for which he is fantastic.

Tim Curry has been doing voice work since the mid-80s, at least....and did an awesome turn as Captain Hook, at one point. He's very good at BBEGs, which makes his turn as Nigel Thornberry all the funnier.
 
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WizarDru said:
David Warner's best animation piece, by FAR, is as Batman's other nemesis, R'as al Ghul, for which he is fantastic.
Ah, I knew I forgot one of his roles! Damn, he was fantastic as R'as al Ghul. Great performance.
 

WizarDru said:
Tim Curry has been doing voice work since the mid-80s, at least....and did an awesome turn as Captain Hook, at one point. He's very good at BBEGs, which makes his turn as Nigel Thornberry all the funnier.

Fox Kid's Peter Pan & the Pirates! Booyeah! He did a seriously awesome Captain Hook!
 

Should clarify: Peter Cullen was the original Optimus Prime. When they did Beast Wars and the new animated shows, they couldn't afford him and got someone else (who did a good job).
 


WizarDru said:
the series Gargoyles featured just about every major actor from ST:TNG except Patrick Stewart...but they had Avery Brooks, instead. :)
And Kate Mulgrew, who really does have a voice suitable for a weird green elf queen. And, of course, Keith David as Goliath, who is very cool... and played Mary's stepfather in There's Something About Mary. (He also did the animated Spawn, and had a role in Fallout.)

For some reason, I like E. G. Daily - amongst other things, she did Dizzy in the Roughnecks CG series. I was startled to discover she also played Tommy on Rugrats.

And then there's Michael Bell, who I grew to know through the Soul Reaver series of computer games in his role as the twice-dead vampire wraith and messiah Raziel. His mixture of despair, rage and dark humour is thrown into contrast by the fact that he also played Allstar on Snorks, a sizable population of the Smurfs, half the Autobots ever, a couple of voices on Rugrats, half of GI Joe, and just about every other role ever stretching back to 1958 - he provided 'additional voices' on the Jetsons well into his career. Wow.

Finally, there's the mysterious Simon Templeman, who I've found precisely one picture of despite searching quite diligently. I'm principally aware of his role as the vampire emperor Kain from Blood Omen and Soul Reaver (both falling under the Legacy Of Kain series umbrella, to give you an idea of his importance), but I also know he's appeared on Lois And Clark as some supervillain called Lord Nor, and on an episode of Just Shoot Me that I missed (because I don't watch the show). Checking IMDB reveals that he is, in fact, the ultimate embodiment of "Do you really think you can stop me?" with roles such as death, Doctor Doom, and some villain on that weird Totally Spies toon. I still don't know too much about his other roles.

About the only person who doesn't suffer on my list, therefore, is Templeman, Man of Mystery.
 

Does anyone remember Go-Bots? Remember the evil robot leader, the motorcycle, Cy-Kill? His voice was provided by the late Bernard Erhard (passed away in 2000 or 2001). You can see him in the 80s fantasy movie Deathstalker as the evil wizard. You won't be disappointed by what he looks like. He's the scary, bald guy with a goatee. Actually he kind of resembles the guy who founded the Church Of Satan (Anton LaVey?).

Of course, he also did voices on such shows as The Smurfs, so that's kind of disturbing. I don't recall a Satan Smurf, myself. :)
 

Scott McNeil does some great voice work; he has a list 96 credits.

His Wolverine (X-Men: Evolution) voice is the same as his Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z) voice, but Cal Dodd will always be the voice of Wolverine for me.
 

DarkSoldier said:
Scott McNeil does some great voice work; he has a list 96 credits.

His Wolverine (X-Men: Evolution) voice is the same as his Piccolo (Dragon Ball Z) voice, but Cal Dodd will always be the voice of Wolverine for me.
He's also Koga on Inu Yasha, plus he plays about half the cast on He-Man.
 

Voice over work doesn't tend to pay well because you don't have to spend much time working. No make-up, no wardrobe, no worrying about timeing or look at the camera. A major speaking part for a 30 minute TV might take an hour or 2 to do a whole shows worth of dialog.
 

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