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| Born | Jess Q. Harnell December 23, 1963 Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Voice actor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
Jess Q. Harnell (born December 23, 1963) is an American voice actor, best known for voicing Wakko Warner on Animaniacs and Hunter on Road Rovers. Jess has been the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos since 1997.
Biography
Jess Harnell is originally from Teaneck, New Jersey. He started his career with minimal experience. But in 1993, he voiced his most popular role, Wakko Warner on Animaniacs, and the Secret Squirrel on 2 Stupid Dogs. Meanwhile in 1996 he was Hunter on Road Rovers. Harnell voiced 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. In 2001, he was the singing voice of Buster on Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure. He also voiced Captain Hero on Comedy Central's animated comedy Drawn Together and 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 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 voiced 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). He returned to voice Ironhide once again on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.[1][2][3] He also voices the Skrall in the animated feature BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn
Harnell's father was composer Joe Harnell. He is the proud uncle of the award-winning UK Indie composer, JC Harnell.
He also was in the short film Star Wars Cops: Troops as a Stormtrooper.
| 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 Peter Cullen |
Voice of Ironhide 2007 |
Succeeded by Corey Burton |
| Preceded by Corey Burton |
Voice of Ironhide 2009 |
Succeeded by incumbent |
References
- ^ "Voice Cast Announced on Program at Australia Premiere". Seibertron. http://www.seibertron.com/news/view.php?id=10694.
- ^ "Transformers Movie Voice Cast Revealed!". TFormers.com. http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=7889.
- ^ ""Transformers" Movie Credits". About.com. http://movies.about.com/library/weekly/aatransformerscast.htm.
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