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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' (1986) -- Bombshell, Junkion, Prowl, Scrapper & Swoop

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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie'' ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' (1986) -- Bombshell, Junkion, Prowl, Scrapper & Swoop
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!!''Michael Bell’s notable roles:''

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!!''Michael Bell’s Bell's notable roles:''



* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' (2000) -- Druid, Nihlathak

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* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' (2000) -- Druid, Nihlathak



* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} The Rugrats]]: [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp All Growed Up]]'' (2001) – Drew Pickles / Charles ‘Chaz’ Finster Sr.

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} The Rugrats]]: [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp All Growed Up]]'' (2001) – Drew Pickles / Charles ‘Chaz’ 'Chaz' Finster Sr.



* ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom³]]'' (2004)

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* ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Doom³]]'' ''VideoGame/Doom3'' (2004)



* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' (1984)

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* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'' ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGobots'' (1984)
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* ''Film/HowToBeatTheHighCostOfLiving'' (1980) -- Tom

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' (1981-1989) -- Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Handy Smurf & Johan

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' (1981-1989) -- Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Handy Smurf & Johan



* ActingForTwo:
** In ''Series/{{Dallas}}''
** ''Series/ThreesCompany''
** A lot of his voice work had him playing multiple characters across various shows and often had him playing two characters interacting in the same scene -- such as Duke and Major Bludd on ''GI Joe''.
* ActorAllusion:
** Besides Lex Luthor in Creator/RubySpears’ Superman, Michael Bell had played a young Luthor in a ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]'' episode.
** Bell’s role of “Duke” in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' isn’t the first time he played a character of the name. He played three other characters named ‘Duke’ in ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Puppys Further Adventures}}'' and ''[[Creator/{{ABC}} ABC Weekend Special]]''.
** Michael Bell’s [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Chaz]] [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp Finster]] character shares the last name of another character Bell voiced simply known as “[[WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies Mr. Finster]]".
** Twice he played a character who built a humanoid being: The first one was Clockwork Smurf as [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Handy Smurf]] and the second time was FrankensteinsMonster as [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]].
** From ''[[WesternAnimation/PotsworthAndCompany Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone]]'', he plays a character named ‘[[Franchise/GIJoe Sebastian]].’* TheDanza:
** Plays ‘Michael’ on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
** Also plays NIA Agent Mike Krasny on ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' and another ‘Mike’ in [=TV=] movie ''See the Man Run''.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** For the 1990s ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' animated series, he replaced Creator/PeterCullen’s role of Coran from the 1980s series.
** Took over the voice of Dick Dastardly from Creator/PaulWinchell in ''[[Creator/HannaBarbera The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera]]'' ride.
* RoleReprise:
** Reprises his role of [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Zan]] for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
** Returned to “Space Ace” character from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'' fifteen years later in ''Space Mutts''.
** ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'' has him reprise the roles of Sideswipe and Scrapper.
** He has also reprised Medivh from the ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' franchise.
** The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "G.I. Jeff" had him reprise his ''G.I. Joe'' role as Duke.
** On ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' , he reprises his ''WesternAnimation/DarkWingDuck'' role as Quackerjack .
* TalkingToHimself: Well, if you don’t wanna look through all the folders . . .
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* ActingForTwo:
** In ''Series/{{Dallas}}''
** ''Series/ThreesCompany''
**
ActingForTwo: A lot of his voice work had him playing multiple characters across various shows and often had him playing two characters interacting in the same scene -- such as Duke and Major Bludd on ''GI Joe''.
* ActorAllusion:
Joe''. The full list of shared roles in a series include:
** Besides Lex Luthor in Creator/RubySpears’ Superman, '''Live-Action TV series'''
*** ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' - Les Crowley and Pat Connors
*** ''Series/ThreesCompany'' -
Michael Bell had played a young Luthor in a ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]'' episode.
** Bell’s role of “Duke” in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' isn’t the first time he played a character of the name. He played three other characters named ‘Duke’ in ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo The Scooby
and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Puppys Further Adventures}}'' and ''[[Creator/{{ABC}} ABC Weekend Special]]''.
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** Michael Bell’s [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Chaz]] [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp Finster]] character shares the last name of another character Bell voiced simply known as “[[WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies Mr. Finster]]".
** Twice he played a character who built a humanoid being: The first one was Clockwork Smurf as [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Handy Smurf]] and the second time was FrankensteinsMonster as [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]].
** From ''[[WesternAnimation/PotsworthAndCompany Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone]]'', he plays a character named ‘[[Franchise/GIJoe Sebastian]].’* TheDanza:
** Plays ‘Michael’ on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
** Also plays NIA Agent Mike Krasny on ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' and another ‘Mike’ in [=TV=] movie ''See the Man Run''.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** For the 1990s ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' animated series, he replaced Creator/PeterCullen’s role of Coran from the 1980s series.
** Took over the voice of Dick Dastardly from Creator/PaulWinchell in ''[[Creator/HannaBarbera The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera]]'' ride.
* RoleReprise:
** Reprises his role of [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Zan]] for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
** Returned to “Space Ace” character from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'' fifteen years later in ''Space Mutts''.
** ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'' has him reprise the roles of Sideswipe and Scrapper.
** He has also reprised Medivh from the ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' franchise.
** The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "G.I. Jeff" had him reprise his ''G.I. Joe'' role as Duke.
** On ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' , he reprises his ''WesternAnimation/DarkWingDuck'' role as Quackerjack .
* TalkingToHimself: Well, if you don’t wanna look through all the folders . . .
** Video Games:
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*** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]]'' – Handy Smurf, Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf and Johan

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*** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs Smurfs]]'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' – Handy Smurf, Lazy Smurf, Grouchy Smurf and Johan


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* ActorAllusion:
** Besides Lex Luthor in Creator/RubySpears’ Superman, Michael Bell had played a young Luthor in a ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]'' episode.
** Bell’s role of “Duke” in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' isn’t the first time he played a character of the name. He played three other characters named ‘Duke’ in ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour]]'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Puppys Further Adventures}}'' and ''[[Creator/{{ABC}} ABC Weekend Special]]''.
** Michael Bell’s [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Chaz]] [[WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp Finster]] character shares the last name of another character Bell voiced simply known as “[[WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies Mr. Finster]]".
** Twice he played a character who built a humanoid being: The first one was Clockwork Smurf as [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 Handy Smurf]] and the second time was FrankensteinsMonster as [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein Dr. Frankenstein]].
** From ''[[WesternAnimation/PotsworthAndCompany Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone]]'', he plays a character named ‘[[Franchise/GIJoe Sebastian]].’* TheDanza:
** Plays ‘Michael’ on ''Series/ThreesCompany''.
** Also plays NIA Agent Mike Krasny on ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' and another ‘Mike’ in [=TV=] movie ''See the Man Run''.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** For the 1990s ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' animated series, he replaced Creator/PeterCullen’s role of Coran from the 1980s series.
** Took over the voice of Dick Dastardly from Creator/PaulWinchell in ''[[Creator/HannaBarbera The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera]]'' ride.
* RoleReprise:
** Reprises his role of [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Zan]] for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw''.
** Returned to “Space Ace” character from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'' fifteen years later in ''Space Mutts''.
** ''VideoGame/TransformersDevastation'' has him reprise the roles of Sideswipe and Scrapper.
** He has also reprised Medivh from the ''VideoGame/WarCraft'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' franchise.
** The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "G.I. Jeff" had him reprise his ''G.I. Joe'' role as Duke.
** On ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' , he reprises his ''WesternAnimation/DarkWingDuck'' role as Quackerjack .
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** ''LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'' (1999) – Melchiah
** ''VideoGame/SoulReaver2'' (2001)
** ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainDefiance'' (2004)

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** ''LegacyOfKainSoulReaver'' ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver Soul Reaver]]'' (1999) – Melchiah
** ''VideoGame/SoulReaver2'' ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver2 Soul Reaver 2]]'' (2001)
** ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainDefiance'' ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKainDefiance Defiance]]'' (2004)

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* ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver]]'' (1999) – Raziel & Melchiah

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* ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKain Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver]]'' ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' - Raziel & additional voices
** ''LegacyOfKainSoulReaver''
(1999) – Raziel & MelchiahMelchiah
** ''VideoGame/SoulReaver2'' (2001)
** ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainDefiance'' (2004)
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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' (1994-1995) -- Aziz

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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' (1994-1995) -- AzizAziz and Amal
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* NamesTheSame: Michael ‘Mike’ Bell shares the same name to ''sixteen'' different people:
## Michael Bell (1936-2011) – Former Irish Labour Party politician.
## Michael Bell (1971-) – Former English football defender.
## Michael P. Bell (1955-) – Former Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from January 4, 2010 and served until January 4, 2014.
## Michael Dougall Bell (1943-) – Former Canadian Foreign Service Officer.
## Michael Richard Bell () – former Canadian diplomat.
## Michael Bell (1971-) – American painter, muralist and screenwriter.
## Michael Mayerfeld Bell (1957-) – American sociologist and social theorist.
## Michael Bell () – racehorse traner
## Michael Bell () – Original author of integrated workplace management system ([=IWMS=] Software.
## Michael ‘Mike’ Steven Bell (1983-) – an American football running back player for Cleveland Browns who is currently a free agent.
## Mike J. Bell (1957) – Former American college and professional football player who was a defensive end for Kansas City Chiefs.
## Michael ‘Mike’ John Bell (1974-) – a minor league baseball coach for the Visalia Rawhide, former coach of the Yakima Bears, and former third baseman of Cincinnati Reds.
## Michael ‘Mike’ Allen Bell (1968-) – former Major League Baseball (first baseman) player for the Atlanta Braves and a number of minor league teams.
## Michael ‘Mike’ Bell (1977-2008) – an American professional wrestler who worked for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and Extreme Championship Wrestling as Mike ‘Mad Dog’ Bell.
## Mike Bell (1963-) Former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives but is now a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate for the 9th district, encompassing Riceville, Bradley County, McMinn County, Meigs County and Polk County.
## Michael ‘Mike’ Patrick Bell – A writer, storyboard artist, actor, voice actor, director, character designer and producers, or in other words . . . does the voice of “White Shadow” from ''WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}}''!
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* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' (2000) -- Druid

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* ''VideoGame/Diablo2'' (2000) -- DruidDruid, Nihlathak
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He expressed interest in returning to the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise before being cast as High Tide in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', auditioning to reprise the roles of Prowl and Swoop for ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and auditioning for Ratchet and William Fowler for ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''[[note]]Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/JeffreyCombs, and Creator/ErnieHudson were respectively cast in the respective roles ''Animated''!Prowl, ''Prime''!Ratchet, and Fowler and ''Animated''!Swoop along with ''Animated'' Slag/[[AdaptationNameChange Snarl]] were TheSpeechless[[/note]]

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He expressed interest in returning to the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise before being cast as High Tide in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', auditioning to reprise the roles of Prowl and Swoop for ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' and auditioning for Ratchet and William Fowler for ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''[[note]]Creator/JeffBennett, Creator/JeffreyCombs, and Creator/ErnieHudson were respectively cast in the respective roles ''Animated''!Prowl, ''Prime''!Ratchet, and Fowler and ''Animated''!Swoop along with ''Animated'' Slag/[[AdaptationNameChange Snarl]] were TheSpeechless[[/note]]TheSpeechless[[/note]]. He also was planned to reprise his role of Scrapper and step in as Skywarp in a motion comic version of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersAllHailMegatron'', only recording one test scene before the project got scrapped.
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* ''WebAnimation/GarbageIsland'' (2000) -- Dad
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Born July 30, 1938 in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn, New York]] to a Jewish family, Michael Bell is a veteran actor and voice actor, specializing in heroic and occasionally villainous roles (he was equally adept at playing either stalwart heroes or flamboyant villains) in video games and animated TV series as well as on-screen appearances in films and television. He’s been described as being one of the most prominent voice actors of the 1980s. Fans of the 80s remember Bell for his voice work in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' (where his character Duke bellowed the iconic battle cry "YOOOOOOOO JOE!!!" in the opening credit -- his voice always remained in place even when the credits changed to feature Flint, voiced by Bill Ratner, in place of Duke), ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' and ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', while 90s fans may know him better as Drew Pickles and Chas Finster, Angelica and Chuckie's respective dads from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', and video game fans will likely know him best as Raziel from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series. Bell provided the voice of the Parkay tub for the first five years of the Parkay Margarine commercials, has done commercials spoofing his [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Zan]] character for Creator/CartoonNetwork on the cable channel as well as doing all the voice-overs for Zales Diamond Stores. Creator/BJWard was something of a leading lady for him during his heyday.

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Born July 30, 1938 in [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn, New York]] to a Jewish family, Michael Bell is a veteran actor and voice actor, specializing in heroic and occasionally villainous roles (he was equally adept at playing either stalwart heroes or flamboyant villains) in video games and animated TV series as well as on-screen appearances in films and television. He’s been described as being one of the most prominent voice actors of the 1980s. Fans of the 80s remember Bell for his voice work in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' (where his character Duke bellowed the iconic battle cry "YOOOOOOOO JOE!!!" in the opening credit -- his voice always remained in place even when the credits changed to feature Flint, voiced by Bill Ratner, in place of Duke), ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' and ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'', while 90s fans may know him better as Drew Pickles and Chas Finster, Angelica and Chuckie's respective dads from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', and video game fans will likely know him best as Raziel from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series. He also has the distinction of being the first English voice of Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', voicing him in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheBerserkGutsRage''. Bell provided the voice of the Parkay tub for the first five years of the Parkay Margarine commercials, has done commercials spoofing his [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Zan]] character for Creator/CartoonNetwork on the cable channel as well as doing all the voice-overs for Zales Diamond Stores. Creator/BJWard was something of a leading lady for him during his heyday.

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