A late British actor who played mostly villainous roles with a deep, highly distinctive voice. His natural speaking voice just
oozed that of a
Magnificent Bastard. He died at 73 in 2006.
Some of his major roles are:
- Time Bandits (Voice of the Supreme Being)
- Jungle Book 2 (Shere Khan)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Frollo)
- Reboot (Megabyte)
- Legacy of Kain (Elder God, Mortainus)
- Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (Xantam)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Dregg)
- The Mighty Ducks (Wraith)
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series (Baron Mordo)
- TaleSpin (Shere Khan again, only as a Corrupt Corporate Executive this time).
- Teen Titans (narrator, some episodes)
- Animaniacs (narrator, some episodes)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (narrator)
- Mighty Max (Virgil, the Obi Wan and a rare sympathetic role)
- Lois and Clark (Lex Luthor's assistant Nigel, a rare live role)
- Many voices in the CD version of King's Quest VI, including Captain Saladin.
- Gargoyles (Anubis)
- The Bard's Tale (the 2004 version, as The Narrator)
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie (Mr. Lickboot. "We've got to have...MONEEEYY....")
- The Tick (Chairface)
- An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (Toplofty)
- Fallout (Lieutenant)
- Planescape: Torment (appears near the end as The Transcendent One)
- Armed And Dangerous (King Forge)
- Sacrifice (Mithras)
- Skeleton Warriors (Narrated the Title Sequence)
- X-Men Legends (Magneto, but only for the first game as he fell ill before the second one began development)
- Fantastic Four (Galactus and Terrax, but after season 1 he only played the former)
- Treasure Planet Narrator
- Rugrats Dr. Lipschitz
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein OSS Director
May be the only actor to appear in both
The Eighties TV series
Beauty and the Beast and the 1991
Disney Animated Canon feature of
the same name.
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