Jess Harnell 

Jess Harnell
Born Jess Q. Harnell
December 23, 1963 (1963-12-23) (age 44)
Teaneck, New Jersey
Occupation Voice Actor/Singer

Jess Q. Harnell (born December 23, 1963 in Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.), is an American voice actor, best known for portraying Wakko Warner and Walter Wolf on Animaniacs and Hunter on Road Rovers. He also voices Joe Tabootie on the Nickelodeon show ChalkZone, Crash Bandicoot in Crash Tag Team Racing, Crash of the Titans, and Crash: Mind over Mutant, Spyro the Dragon in Spyro: A Hero's Tail and Spyro: Shadow Legacy, Jerry in Totally Spies and Doctor Finklestein in The Nightmare Before Christmas's video game spin-offs, as well as in the Kingdom Hearts series replacing the late William Hickey who voiced him in the film. He also voiced Captain Hero on Comedy Central's animated comedy Drawn Together and is the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos. He also does the voices of Wooton Bassett and Bennett Charles on the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey, as well as Br'er Rabbit on the Disney TV show House of Mouse as well as in the Disney attraction, Splash Mountain (both at Disneyland and Walt Disney World). He was also a voice director on Eek! The Cat, What's New Scooby Doo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Bruno the Kid, Terrible Thunderlizards, Life with Louie, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and Where's Waldo. He also made a few appearances on Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, both on-screen and in voice-over. His voice also made an appearance in NASCAR Rumble, and is credited for in-game commentary in the follow up game RUMBLE RACING.

He was most recently cast to voice the characters of Ironhide and Barricade in Michael Bay's Transformers, released on July 2, 2007, making him the only voice actor to play both an Autobot (Ironhide) and a Decepticon (Barricade).123

Harnell's father was composer Joe Harnell.

Preceded by
Tom Kenny
Voice of Spyro the Dragon
2004-2005
Succeeded by
Elijah Wood
Preceded by
Steven Jay Blum
Voice of Crash Bandicoot
2005-present
Succeeded by
TBA
Preceded by
Mark Ryan
Voice of Ironhide
2007
Succeeded by
Corey Burton

References

  1. ^ "Voice Cast Announced on Program at Australia Premiere", Seibertron. 
  2. ^ "Transformers Movie Voice Cast Revealed!". TFormers.com.
  3. ^ ""Transformers" Movie Credits". About.com.

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