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Philip Proctor

 
Artist: Phil Proctor
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Phil Proctor

Worked With:

Peter Bergman, David Ossman, John Fresno, Philip Austin
  • Active: '70s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals, Violin, Flute

Biography

Born in Indiana in 1940 and raised in New York City, Phil Proctor became known as a member of the Firesign Theatre and its two man offshoot, Proctor and Bergman. Like many musicians and comedians of the '60s, Proctor's interest in comedy began with listening to Bob and Ray, among other comedians, on the radio, and by making his own tapes on a reel-to-reel recorder his parents bought for him. From 1958 to 1962, he attended Yale as a drama major, where he met future Theatre member Peter Bergman, and the two became friends. Proctor acted in several college productions, some scripted by Bergman, and the two eventually made their way to Los Angeles, where they began working with Phil Austin and David Ossman on Radio Free Oz, a late-night freeform radio show broadcast from KPFK. As part of Firesign Theatre, Proctor became known for characters such as Ralph Spoilsport, Pastor Rod Flash, and Clem, the hero of I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus. With Bergman, Proctor released three further comedy albums, TV Or Not TV, What This Country Needs, and Give Us a Break, all during the '70s, after the Firesign's releases became more sporadic. Through the '80s and '90s, Proctor did work for television and radio, among them providing voices for a NPR production of War Of the Worlds, based on the 1938 radio play, and an adaptation of Tom Lewis's book Empire of the Air. ~ Ted Mills, All Music Guide
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  • Occupation: Actor, Writer, Director
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
  • Career Highlights: A Safe Place, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, J-Men Forever
  • First Major Screen Credit: Zachariah (1970)

Biography

Best known for being a charter member of the radical Los Angeles comedy group of the 1960s, the Firesign Theater, comedian Phil Proctor made his film debut in The 1,000 Plane Raid (1969). In 1979, Proctor wrote, directed, and starred in J-Men Forever along with his other Firesign compatriots. With them, he has appeared in several films. Beginning with Aladdin (1992), Proctor has also worked as a voice artist on Disney-animated features that include Hercules (1997). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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Philip Proctor
Born July 28, 1940 (1940-07-28) (age 69)
Goshen, Indiana, U.S.
Occupation Actor/Voice actor
Years active 1962–present

Philip Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor, voice actor and a member of The Firesign Theatre. He plays Rocky Rococo in the Nick Danger series. He hails from Goshen, Indiana.

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Career

Of the four company members, Proctor has had the greatest amount of mainstream exposure as an actor, having been seen occasionally on television in small roles, including episodes of All in the Family and Night Court, and off-Broadway in the 1964 musical The Amorous Flea. He also provided the voice of Meltdown in Treasure Planet. He also provides the voice of "Drunk Monkey" in the Dr. Doolittle remake series. Additionally, he has provided uncredited ADR overdubs for numerous movies over the years.

More recently, he has done voices for several cartoons and video games, including the voice of Howard Deville in Rugrats and All Grown Up! on Nickelodeon and "background" voices for Disney features, as well as voice work on Power Rangers Time Force. He also did two voices in the GameCube video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, and on Playstation 2's Dark Chronicle. He is the voice of The Professor and White Monkey in the Ape Escape series. Recently, his voice was featured in the video game Dead Rising as Russell Barnaby, Assassin's Creed as Dr. Warren Vidic, and on Adventures in Odyssey as Leonard Maltsner. In the 2007 live audio production of the Angie Award-winning screenplay Albatross at the International Mystery Writers Festival, he played seven characters requiring four different accents: KGB agent Stefan Linnik, East German Communist Party apparatchik Kurt Mueller; a West Berlin gasthaus owner; an armed forces radio announcer; the Senate minority whip; a Secret Service guard; and Gerhard Derstman, the East German Cultural Attache/Stasi member. He also lent his voice to the game Battlezone (computer game). He was the announcer on Big Brother (U.S.) seasons 3-6

Filmography

Animated Roles

Live-Action Roles

Film Roles

Video Game Roles

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The Firesign Theatre
 
Performers

Phil Austin · Peter Bergman · David Ossman · Philip Proctor
 
Albums
Commercial
Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him · How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All · Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers · I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus · Dear Friends · Not Insane or Anything You Want To · The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra · Everything You Know Is Wrong · In the Next World, You're on Your Own · Forward into the Past · Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat · Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe · Fighting Clowns · Lawyer's Hospital · Shakespeare's Lost Comedie · The Three Faces of Al · Eat or Be Eaten · Shoes for Industry: The Best of Firesign Theatre · Anythynge You Want To · Back from the Shadows · Pink Hotel Burns Down · Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death · Boom Dot Bust · Bride of Firesign · Radio Now Live! · Papoon For President · All Things Firesign
Non-commercial
Dear Friends - Syndicated Radio Program · A Firesign Chat with Papoon · Let’s Eat - Syndicated Radio Program · The Proctor-Bergman Report · The Cassette Chronichles
Related
TV or not TV · How Time Flys · Roller Maidens From Outer Space · What This Country Needs · Give Us a Break · Daily Feed 1988 Newsreel - The Daily Feed · The George Tirebiter Story Chapter 1: Another Christmas Carol · George Tirebiter's Radiodaze · The George Tirebiter Story Pt.2 Mexican Overdrive / Radiodaze · A Capital Decade Daily Feed 1989 Newsreel - The Daily Feed · The George Tirebiter Story Pt.3 The Ronald Reagan Murder Case · Down Under Danger · Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies · David Ossman's Time Capsules
 
Bibliography

The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays · The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book · The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre · Backwards Into The Future: The Recorded History of the Firesign Theatre

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