Jim Cummings (born November 3, 1952), is a prolific American voice actor who has been involved in numerous cartoons such as Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. He has voiced several characters for the 1987 animated series.
Jennifer Darling (born June 19, 1946 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is the voice actress for Irma Langinstein in the 1987 animated series.
Pat Fraley (born February 18, 1949) is a prolific American voice actor who has provided voices for numerous characters in the 1987 TV series. He is also a member of Voice and Speech Trainers of America. He grew up in the Mormon faith but became a born again Christian later in life. He is married and has four sons. He lives in Studio City, California. He is a neighbor and a good friend of fellow actor Edward Asner. He holds an MFA degree in Acting from Cornell University.
Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is the regular voice actor for Donatello and Bebop in the 1987 animated series. In a interview for the Season 5 DVD set, he admitted to being an avid pizza eater.
Gordon was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He began his professional life at age three; in his TV debut, he won second place on Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour singing Johnnie Ray’s “Cry”. At six, Gordon recorded “Nuttin’ for Christmas”, still one of the top-selling Christmas recordings of all time. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He was the youngest performer ever to hit the Billboard Hot 100, when that song hit #6 in 1955.
As a child star, Gordon also appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show, The Jack Benny Program, and Star Time with Benny Goodman. Barry Gordon also appeared as Humberto in an episode of the NBC sitcom Sally, starring Joan Caulfield, and as Chopper in ABC’s Leave It to Beaver Episode 119: “Beaver’s House Guest”.
When he was thirteen, Gordon debuted on Broadway, as Nick in Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns, a role that earned him a Tony Award nomination. He later reprised this role in the film version opposite Jason Robards and Martin Balsam in 1965. The film gave him “introducing” billing but he had actually been in several films prior, most notably his actual film debut in 1956′s The Girl Can’t Help It as a newspaper boy in which he uttered the classic line after seeing Jayne Mansfield, “If that’s a girl, I don’t know what my sister is.”
Primarily as a character actor, Gordon became a familiar face in numerous feature films and television series. In the 1970s, Gordon appeared in the Barney Miller spin-off Fish, starring Abe Vigoda. In the last two seasons of the sitcom All in the Family, then known as Archie Bunker’s Place, Gordon had the recurring role of Gary Rabinowitz, Archie’s Jewish accountant. Gordon also had notable guest-starring roles on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Nava, a Ferengi businessman, and on Star Trek: Voyager as Ardon Broht, an alien publisher. More recently Gordon has appeared as the Rabbi in Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Gordon is also a voice actor. His most notable voice roles were Donatello and Bebop in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and as Razor/Jake Clawson in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993). Gordon’s voice was also featured in other animated series, such as Jabberjaw, The Kid Superpower Hour with Shazam!, Mighty Orbots, The Snorks, The Jetsons, Gravedale High, Darkwing Duck, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Batman: The Animated Series, Pac-Man, Tom & Jerry Kids, The Smurfs, Droopy, Master Detective, Fantastic Max, Pole Position, The Pirates of Dark Water and The Adventures of the American Rabbit. Gordon also provided the voice of the Quik Bunny / NesQuik Bunny character in television commercials for Nestlé Quik/NesQuik.
In his mid-thirties, Gordon returned to school; he graduated summa cum laude as a political science major from California State University, Los Angeles; and he went on to Loyola Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1991.
Gordon became the longest-serving president of the Screen Actors Guild, holding the office for seven years (one year longer than either Charlton Heston or Ronald Reagan).
In 1998, Gordon was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States Congress from the Pasadena, California area. He surprised political pundits, of both parties, by coming within three points of unseating the Republican Party incumbent, Rep. James Rogan.
In 2004, when the local Air America Radio affiliate in Los Angeles went off the air, for a then-unspecified period of time, Gordon started a live, call-in progressive political talk show on Pasadena’s Public-access television cable TV channel 56. It continues to be cablecast and webcast live, with Adobe Flash video available on demand.
In 2005, Gordon hosted a weekly talk show heard on KRLA Radio in Los Angeles, California.
In 2006 and early 2007, Gordon hosted Barry Gordon From Left Field, a weekly talk show broadcast throughout the 25th largest U.S. radio market—the San Bernardino/Riverside region of Southern California—on KCAA Radio, in Loma Linda, California. With live streams and podcast archives, the show was especially notable for featuring nationally known guests, including senators, congressmen, bestselling authors, and entertainment figures.
In 2008, Gordon debuted his daily Internet talk show, Left Talk, on BlogTalkRadio.
Since 2007, Gordon has taught courses in politics and the media at the California State University, Los Angeles.
Renae Jacobs (born February 1, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois) is the American voice actress for April O’Neil and Lotus Blossom (among others) in the 1987 animated series.
Tony Jay (February 2, 1933 – August 13, 2006) was the voice actor forMegaVolt and Lord Dregg in the 1987 TV series during its final seasons. He is best known as the voice of Judge Claude Frollo in Walt Disney Pictures’The Hunchback of Notre Dame and as the virus Megabyte in ReBoot.
Jay was a devotee of classic Broadway, and made several recordings and performances of old-time Broadway lyrics, in spoken-word form. A CD of these readings, Speaking of Broadway, was released in 2005; a version recorded years earlier of the same collection was titled Poets on Broadway, as is his website. It features Jay reciting lyrics written by the likes of Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, and Oscar Hammerstein, and was composed entirely by him, according to the CD liner notes.
Career
Jay appeared on-screen in several movies and on television, including Love and Death, Twins, Night Court and Eerie, Indiana. He also developed a career in the theatre, in plays such as The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, and The Merchant of Venice. Jay’s other non-animation roles included Paracelsus on the 1987 CBS series Beauty and the Beast; Minister Campio on Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Lex Luthor’s villainous aide-de-camp Nigel St. John in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
He was also well known for his role as the voice of the virus Megabyte in the award-winning 3-D animated series ReBoot, and for his voice work as Judge Claude Frollo in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and in the Walt Disney World version of the nighttime light and fireworks show Fantasmic!. He also voiced Monsieur D’Arque, the amoral asylum superintendent, in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
He is also well-known among Legacy of Kain fans for his voicing of the original Mortanius and of the Elder God, alongside several other minor characters. He was also the successor of George Sanders in the role of Shere Khan the tiger as he voiced the character in Tale Spin and reprised his role of the character for fifteen years after it ended until his death. The Jungle Book 2 was his final reprisal of the role.
Jay was a devotee of classic Broadway, and made several recordings and performances of old-time Broadway lyrics, in spoken-word form. A CD of these readings, Speaking of Broadway, was released in 2005; a version recorded years earlier of the same collection was titled Poets on Broadway, as is his website. It features Jay reciting lyrics written by the likes of Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, and Oscar Hammerstein, and was composed entirely by him, according to the CD liner notes.
Jay was born in London, England in 1933. He attended Pinner County Grammar School. He moved to South Africa in 1966 and was involved with many radio productions on the SABC Commercial Radio Service, Springbok Radio, until 1980. He later moved to the United States, and became a naturalized citizen. He was Jewish.
In April 2006 he underwent surgery in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles to remove a non-cancerous tumor from his lungs. He never recovered fully from the operation and was in critical condition throughout the following months, until his death at the hospital on August 13, 2006, at the age of 73. He is interred at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.
Jay was survived by his wife Marta and his son Adam.
Patricia Elizabeth Musick (born 1 November 1956) in an American voice actor with decades of experience in the trade. Her daughter is Mae Whitman.
Pat voiced Mona Lisa in the 1987 cartoon.
Dennis O’Flaherty is a writer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), he wrote a total of 8 episodes.
He, however, did not write “The Great Boldini” (by Francis Moss) which featured the character Sergeant O’Flaherty.
Peter Renaday (born June 9, 1935 as Pierre L. Renoudet) is an American voice actor and the regular voice actor for Splinter in the 1987 animated series.
David Wise is a writer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). In 1987, Wise was given the call to develop and write a five-part animated television pilot based on a little-known independent comic, Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Wise thus became one of the principal forces behind the reinvention of the darker toned black and white Mirage Studios title into a fun, bright, cheerful animated phenomenon, creating the classic phrases “Cowabunga, dude”, and developing original characters like Krang and Rocksteady and Bebop. Wise remained on board for most of its then-unbeaten lifespan of ten years (finally beaten by The Simpsons), writing and story editing over 100 episodes.
Wise would leave the series after the ninth season, the first that would not involve most of the characters he had crafted and helped mold for much of his run.
