Man Of A Thousand Voices / English Western Animation

Voice actors who are best known in Western Animation and Video Games are listed here.

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• Mel Blanc is the Trope Namer, and for good reason — he handled the voices of most of the cast of Looney Tunes, and even more characters after that. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester Cat, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, the Tasmanian Devil, Barney Rubble from The Flintstones... need we go on?
  • We may have to. His IMDB profile lists 1,235 credits for film and TV alone, and animation experts think that his complete filmography may never be tallied.
  • From The Jetsons: JETSOOOOOOON! YOU'RE FIRED!
  • Don't forget Heathcliff from Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats.
  • He voiced numerous characters on The Jack Benny Program, including Jack's long-suffering violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Sy the Mexican, the railroad announcer, the shifty chap known only as "the tout", Carmichael the polar bear, and even Jack's car.
  • There were only a couple of major Looney Tunes character Blanc didn't voice:
    • Elmer Fudd was voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan. Mostly. Blanc did voice one line of Fudd's for What's Opera, Doc? (The shouted "SMOG!!!" when Bryan couldn't put enough "oomph" behind the line), and did sporadically take over the character after Arthur Q. Bryan passed away.
    • Blanc never played Granny, Tweety's owner. That role was filled by Bea Benaderet and later June Foray.
  • He was also the voice of Twiki on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Mr. MacKenzie in Strange Brew. He even showed up on Perry Mason playing the voice of a parrot!
• June Foray was almost as prolific, to the point where Chuck Jones said of her: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc is the male June Foray." She kept at it for at least six decades.
  • Granny for most of the Looney Tunes shorts since 1955, when she replaced Bea Benaderet.
  • Rocket J Squirrel/Natasha Fatale/Nell Fenwick/every female character (Rocky and Bullwinkle)
  • Cindy-Lou Who in the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  • Jokey Smurf (The Smurfs (1981))
  • Granny Gummi (Adventures of the Gummi Bears)
  • Witch Hazel. Both the Disney one and the Looney Tunes one.
  • Grandma Fa in Mulan.
• In the industry, Frank Welker is known as the real king of this — just check his IMDB filmography. It's easier to list what he hasn't done than to try and list everything he's worked on. (Incidentally, a collaboration search on IMDB between Mel Blanc and Frank Welker shows they've shared credits 22 times.) He's especially well known for animal voices.
  • He even came close to voicing Scooby-Doo's Scrappy-Doo.^note Before anyone freaks out at this, it was before Executive Meddling (in the form of The Complainer Is Always Wrong) turned that character into, well, The Scrappy.
  • The Futurama and Evil Con Carne cast and crew used Frank to do most animal voices on the show, and often commented on their awe of his ability to portray, in a single take, an entire flock of geese. Talk about 1000 voices alright.
  • Apparently, Welker is so good at doing animal sounds that some studios hire him just to do that. Chances are, if you're watching a cartoon and there's an animal in it that makes a sound it's Welker (and if it's not Frank, it's Dee Bradley Baker).
  • There's a story that during the casting of Gargoyles, another actor brought in to read for the part of Bronx (the "dog") said, "I'll just hold this [script] until Frank gets here."
  • Frank was brought on to do lion roars in The Lion King where they had absences of recorded roars from actual lions. See him in action here.
    Commenter: I always come here whenever I need to be reminded that a lion's roar is not as powerful as some guy named Frank with a trash can.
  • Welker was this talented at animal voices that when he once appeared on Manny The Uncanny he did a capuchin monkey distress call. ''And he got a reaction from actual capuchin monkeys.'' That's how good the guy is.
  • For these reasons he's one of the highest-grossing film actors of all time by a margin of just under a billion US dollars (albeit not adjusted for inflation). Impressive.
  • In an interview with a voice actor on a The Transformers DVD (he was the voice of Megatron and Soundwave, among others), he says that Welker could perform a call on a pay phone — the coin dropping in the slot, the ringing, the operator, and both sides of the conversation — with ease.
  • In Season One of The Transformers, he single-handily voiced over half the Decepticon cast. ^note  the only exceptions were Starscream (voiced by Chris Latta), Thundercracker (voiced by John Stephenson), and Shockwave (voiced by Corey Burton) Here's a scene from an early episode where, with the exception of Thundercracker, every single character is voiced by Welker, including one scene where he's essentially throttling himself.
  • Worth noting that unlike Mel Blanc, self-admitted man of "only" 850 voices, Frank may be the only person in the world to play this trope literally —- he has over 1200 under his belt.
• Charlie Adler is apparently just as proficient at playing young boys (and even girls!) as he is at playing burly, arrogant, older men. To put this into a bit of context, he voiced 4/5 of the main characters in Cow and Chicken and all of them have very distinct voices.
• Sean Crisden. This is easily seen by playing Kingdom Rush, as he's the only voice actor doing all of the numerous distinct voices for all of the game's towers.
• Charles Martinet has a vocal range a mile wide. On one end, you have Super Mario from Super Mario Bros. and most of the male characters from that series. On the other, you have Paarthurnax from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Listen to the difference here. Yes, you'll probably find it hard to believe both are indeed voiced by him.
• Trey Parker and Matt Stone are known to voice every male character in South Park (with a few exceptions), as well as every overdubbed voice in their movies. They are both capable of performing very different voices, sometimes they don't even bother trying. Keep in mind most of the characters are 9-10 year old children.
• In Courage the Cowardly Dog, Paul Schoeffler and Peter Fernandez both provide the voices for a good chunk of the show's side characters and villains. Schoeffler's roles include, but are not limited to Katz, Le Quack, the Snowman, Freaky Fred, Cajun Fox, Dr. Vindaloo, and no two of them sound remotely alike.
• Michael Bell. Lampshaded in the Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 outtakes where Rene Auberjonois describes Michael as "The man of many voices." to which Michael responds "I'm the man of one voice, you just think it's a thousand."
• Jeff Bennett. An extreme case is The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, in which he plays nearly every character other than the three main characters.
  • Including a semi-recurring woman.
• There's Bill Scott, who voiced literally over a hundred characters on Rocky and Bullwinkle, including the lead characters, Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, Fearless Leader, and Gidney, all sounding nothing alike.
• Paul Frees could also do a bunch of characters. In Rocky and Bullwinkle alone, he was Boris Badenov, Captain Peter Peachfuzz, Inspector Fenwick, Cloyd, and the narrator of Dudley Do-Right, as well as hundreds of additional voices. Away from Rocky and Bullwinkle, he was also the Pillsbury Doughboy, both George and John in The Beatles cartoon, The Thing from The Fantastic Four (1967), The Haunted Mansion's very own Ghost Host, and Tony Curtis' female voice in Some Like It Hot. That's just a start. He was essentially the Corey Burton of his day (in fact, Burton has his own Paul Frees impression and has even replaced some of his voices after Frees died in 1986).
• JB Blanc (no relation to Mel Blanc himself) is a Man of a Thousand Voices and Accents, as shown in his roles as Zinyak (Saints Row IV) and Dragon's Crown's narrator (British), El Fuerte from Street Fighter IV (Mexican), Boris Vyacheslavovich Popov from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Russian), Phillipe Loren from Saints Row IV (French - sorry, Belgian), and Ryotaro Dojima from Persona 4 (American).
• Daws Butler was well-known for voicing many characters in Hanna-Barbera's cartoons, including Elroy Jetson (The Jetsons), Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Snagglepuss.
  • He also voiced multiple incidental characters on Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• Cam Clarke is one of these. Just a few of his varied roles include:
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) - Leonardo, Rocksteady, Mung, OverDrive
  • Jade Empire - Sky
  • Metal Gear Solid - Liquid Snake
  • Tales of Symphonia - Kratos Aurion
  • Drakengard 3 - Decadus
  • AKIRA - Shotaro Kaneda (in the original Streamline dub, replaced with Johnny Yong Bosch in the Pioneer dub)
  • Snoopy The Musical - Snoopy
  • Timon & Pumbaa - Simba
  • World of Warcraft - Blood Elf Male, Malygos
  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2002) - He-Man
  • Killer7 - Andrei Ulmeyda
• Jim Cummings. He's voiced everyone from Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger, too!) to Disney's Pete and two versions of Dr. Robotnik, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (though only in the pilot, as Long John Baldry provided a different voice for him in the series proper) and Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM).
  The Nostalgia Critic: Little known fact, Jim Cummings' voice as Negaduck (Darkwing Duck) kills five puppies every single time he speaks.
• On The Simpsons alone, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria fit this trope. In fact, Yeardley Smith is the only member of the regular cast to focus on only one character (and even she has rarely done an additional one).
  • Dan's range in particular made him a good choice to replace Robin Williams as the voice of the Genie in the sequel and TV spinoff of Aladdin.
• Tom Kenny was once actually called this at a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards show, where he served as an announcer. He's worked as a main or supporting character on every animated series to ever come out of Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network.
  • One notable example is Transformers: Animated, where he not only voices Starscream, but also half a dozen of his clones, each with their own personality quirk. (Slipstream, the female clone, is played by Tara Strong, who is also on this page.)
• Seth MacFarlane, who voices all the major male characters in Family Guy, and two of the main characters in American Dad!. Just... see this Hulu commercial. He can also sing in all of his voices.
• Tress MacNeille, Kath Soucie, Grey DeLisle and Tara Strong. Any modern American cartoon will have at least one of these four voices in it at some point. If a character in an American cartoon is female (or a child in some cases), chances are it's one of them. (Unless she's Asian, in which case it's Lauren Tom, or if black, Cree Summer.)
• While the characters Grey DeLisle's put in are very much pigeonholed, her range is anything but.
  • Rarely do any of her voices sound alike (except when they scream). Sam Manson (Danny Phantom) sounds nothing like Mandy (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), who sounds nothing like Frankie Foster (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), Vicky (The Fairly OddParents!), or the other Vicky (Baldur's Gate).
  • An extreme case is Dan Vs., where DeLisle voices nearly every minor female character and nearly every child.
  • The comparison that breaks brains: DeLisle has voiced both Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender) and Tootie (The Fairly OddParents!). How much more varied can you get?
• Tara Strong has been heard as 10-year old boy Timmy Turner from The Fairly OddParents!, gothic superheroine Raven from Teen Titans as well as the minor character Kitten, Twilight Sparkle in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Genki Girl Rikku in Final Fantasy X, split-personalitied Dark Magical Girl Elisa/Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, Ben Tennyson on Ben 10, Emotionless Girl Presea on Tales of Symphonia, both Toot Braunstein and Princess Clara on Drawn Together, Truffles in Chowder, and even Batgirl (Batman: The Animated Series)... and Harley Quinn. She's possibly best known as Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls (1998). Despite voice acting not typically being a very lucrative career, she's done so many voices that she's able to afford a large house in Los Angeles (as seen on Take Home Chef).
  • Also known to stand-in for other voice actresses when a singing role is required, as exemplified when she stood in for Mila Kunis' voice of Meg Griffin on Family Guy when Meg was required to sing extensively.
  • Strong's performance as Raven deserves special mention, since the times she played Raven further demonstrate her incredible range: she gave Raven a deadpan raspy voice in Teen Titans, then when she reprised the role in Injustice: Gods Among Us, she gave Raven a voice that was deeper and several times more menacing.
• Cree Summer. Who has she voiced? Well, let's see...Numbuh 5 (Codename: Kids Next Door) (Abigail Lincoln), Cree Lincoln, the green M&M, Dulcy the Dragon (Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)), Medusa (Kid Icarus: Uprising), Foxxy Love (Drawn Together), and of course, Penny (Inspector Gadget)!
• Don Messick - From Scooby-Doo, to Boo-Boo Bear, to Ranger Smith, to Falcon 7, to Zorak, to Atom Ant, to Mr. Peebles, to Astro, to Scrappy Doo. He could do anything.
• Rob Paulsen has a voice credit list a mile long:
  • For example: Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)), Yakko Warner and Pinky (Animaniacs), Jack Fenton (Danny Phantom), Saber Rider (Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs), and Sal Maroni (Batman: Gotham Knight) all sound nothing alike. The Maroni voice does sound like a deeper, scarier, and slightly Brooklyn version of Technus (Danny Phantom), though.
  • And Anomen (Baldur's Gate II) sounds nothing like those characters listed above.
  • His normal voice sounds rather like Raphael.
  • He did minor characters including Atchan from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
  • He also plays as Cyborg Ninja/Grey Fox in the Metal Gear Solid remake The Twin Snakes.
  • Many of his characters are recognizable by their smart aleck attitude. Well, except for the gun crazy, time-traveling, macho redneck, Officer Buck Tuddrussell (Time Squad)...
• Pat Fraley has one of the longest credit lists ever, and he is so proficient in voice acting that he beat out several talented nominees like Bob Bergen for the voice over lifetime achievement, which takes at least 25 years or more to be nominated for. Considering that he did the voices for Krang, General Traag, Baxter Stockman, Burne Thompson, all from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), and many other characters all on the same show, and sometimes in the same scenes, his award was definitely earned with his vast talent.
  • He's also Marshall Moo Montana on Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa.
• Put Billy West in a room, give him a script and a mike and you can do a complete show with 20+ individual voices. In Futurama alone he was the Professor, Fry, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Nixon and half of any background/supporting characters you see. And all of this after he first came to public attention as the voice of both Ren and Stimpy after John Kricfalusi was fired from the series.
  • Billy West seemed to have actively set out to become one, claiming to have been heavily influenced by Mel Blanc, Daws Butler and Don Messick. In fact, he himself has provided voiceover for several of the iconic Looney Tunes characters his inspirations had previously voiced.
  • Also notable is that his already impressive range also includes voices that can normally only be achieved by digital altering, like a semi-recurring Energy Being from Futurama. But nope, that flangy alien voice is all from Billy's vocal cords (the DVD commentary even stated that they had to temporarily shut down the recording studio because they thought the sound equipment was messed up when they were recording Billy's lines — until they found out later that Billy's voice could go that high).
• Like Billy West above, John DiMaggio has developed a wide range of voices himself. From robots (Futurama) to psychotic penguins (The Penguins of Madagascar), mad scientists and bikers (Kim Possible) to aliens (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien), even annoying Talking Animal sidekicks (American Dragon: Jake Long and Generator Rex), this dude has been around the curve more than once.
  • What, did you forget that he also played The King of the Oceans on Batman: The Brave and the Bold?
  • Speaking of Batman, he also gave a memorable and chilling performance as The Joker in Batman: Under the Red Hood.
  • He's also grizzled space marine Marcus Fenix (Gears of War). Some fans did pick up on him slipping into Bender's yelling voice when Marcus is having a breakdown yelling at Aaron Griffin after Dom's Heroic Sacrifice however.
  • Additionally, he's a talented beatboxer. Anytime there's beatboxing done on ''Futurama', it's all him.
    • There's a reason why he also voiced Fry's childhood friend Noticibly F.A.T.
  • He was the voice of Hak Foo in Jackie Chan Adventures, replacing Jim Cummings from the second season on. And you can hardly tell the difference.
  • He's also both Wakka and The Stoic Kimahri in Final Fantasy X and they sound nothing like each other.
    • Also, he plays Migelo the shopkeeper and father figure to Vaan and Penelo as well as voicing Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy XII and they don't sound much like any of his other roles. Migelo sounds very distinct especially.
• Maurice LaMarche as well. Most of Futurama's aliens are voiced by Maurice (Kif, Morbo, Lrrr, etc.) as are a few robots (Calculon, Hedonism-bot) and a kick-ass narrator understudied by Billy West in one episode. ("You watched it! You can't un-watch it!")
  • He's also The Brain (Pinky and the Brain). The man does the greatest Orson Welles and Vincent Price impersonations of all time.
  • It's a Running Gag on the Futurama commentaries that Maurice will declare that the voices of Lrrr (Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!), Morbo and the Horrible Gelatinous Blob, all three of which are voiced by him, are completely different. On one occasion, he proved it.
  • In one episode of The Critic, he did 29 different characters in the span of 22 minutes.
• All three Futurama voice actors mentioned above have referred to fellow voice (and live action) actor Dave Herman as one of these as well. In addition to providing the voices of recurring characters like Scruffy the Janitor, Roberto the psychotic criminal robot, and Mayor Poopenmeyer, he's often the "go-to" guy for incidental and secondary characters. Billy West in particular has praised him for being able to create unique and often hilarious voices for characters that only appear for a few seconds of screen time.
• Phil LaMarr voices numerous black characters in western animation, in addition to a variety of other roles.
  • Including a Romanian bisexual immortal with a knife fetish (Metal Gear Solid)
  • Including a Samurai named Jack (Samurai Jack)
  • Including an emperor who is more honorable than Shao Kahn (Mortal Kombat)
  • Including a brain of a Mexican playboy who wants to rule the world (Evil Con Carne)
  • Including a giant freaking robot (Transformers: Animated) who's freaking giant even by giant freaking robot standards. I am... OMEGA SUPREME! (in season three anyway.)
  • He again shows amazing range in Jak and Daxter, voicing Count Veger, Sig, G.T. Blitz and Duke Skyheed.
  • His black guy roles are pretty diverse as well, including the Jamaican from (Futurama), the deep-voiced black guy from (Justice League), the young, squeaky-voiced highschooler (Static Shock) and... uh... Dracula (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy) - a very old, black Dracula (a Blacula, if you will).
  • He voices quite a few animal characters in My Gym Partner's a Monkey.
  • And now he's voiced a Cajun: one Remy Lebeau (Wolverine and the X-Men (2009))
  • In the PSP re-release of Final Fantasy Tactics and Dissidia Final Fantasy (2015), he provides the voice of the kind and soft-spoken hero Ramza Beoulve
• Jennifer Hale. She does so many voices that nearly every show she appears in features her playing multiple roles. Despite being pigeonholed in Videogame Voice Acting, she has a much wider range of roles in animation, from Action Girls to villainous children, to even Cinderella.
• Kara Tritton is a voice actress who voiced over a hundred talking household items in Blue's Clues. She holds the world record for the most voices ever done in a single TV show.
• Corey Burton, most famous for Brainiac from Superman: The Animated Series (and Justice League, and Legion Of Superheroes) but also frequently various Transformers.
  • Including the Creepy Monotone of Shockwave, though the Transformers: Animated version of Megatron sounds more recognizable if you last heard him as Brainiac.
  • Stan Freberg also recruited him to replace Paul Frees (one of the all-time great voice actors) as the narrator for his United States of America record after Frees' death.
  • He's also Dale from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers.
  • He also does a mean Christopher Lee impression (Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Kingdom Hearts).
  • Corey is also the current voice actor for Captain Hook (Peter Pan) and Ludwig Von Drake (Disney Ducks Comic Universe).
• The creators of The Venture Brothers, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, in addition to doing all the writing, concept art, and most of the producing/directing, also do the voices of a ridiculous amount of characters in-show, from main characters to bit pieces. A bit less range than some of the names here, but if you do 90% of the voice acting on one show, you deserve to be here.
  • Publick's prolific voice acting also extends to Superjail! where (credited under his birth name Chris McCulloch) he voices a New York-accented tough guy named Nicky, the raspy Manchild Ash, a flamboyant gay inmate named Paul, The Prison Mogul (aka the Warden's sadistic father seen in flashbacks), the Ultraprison guard Bruce (in all appearances after "Ladies' Night"), and the gratuitously German Doctor, among many many more characters (usually inmates or bit parts, to the point where he can't remember all his roles because he's assigned the minor ones so often).
  • Publick is also the voices (plural) of Welcome To Nightvale resident Hiram McDaniels, a literal five-headed dragon. Each head has its own distinct voice and personality.
• Bob Bergen. Has voiced the titular Lupin III, Porky Pig and other Looney Tunes characters on a number of occasions, and is Lucas Arts' choice of voice actor for Luke Skywalker.
• Lorne Lanning, creator of the Oddworld series, is the voice of every Player Character and most NPC's.
• Dee Bradley Baker has become specialized in doing creature/animal voices. For example, most of the aliens in Ben 10, Perry of Phineas and Ferb, and Appa and Momo of Avatar: The Last Airbender). He has also voiced numerous minor human characters, such as about ten different characters in SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents!.
  • He's also a monument to all of your sins (Halo)
  • And Olmec (Legends of the Hidden Temple). Oh yeah!
  • And an army of clones (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Star Wars Rebels).
    • This one's particularly notable in that he has to put numerous minor variations on what is essentially the same voice.
  • He also voices the Co-op robots in Portal 2.
  • And who could forget the one-and-only Viewtiful Joe?
• Brendon Small, as well as being an excellent writer/director, voices Skwisgaar, Pickles, Nathan, and Charles in Metalocalypse, as well as many roles in Home Movies, and various other minor roles in cartoons including Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
• James Arnold Taylor is well known to have large flexibility in voice acting. He voice acting ranges from Keet Tidus from Final Fantasy X to Ratchet from Ratchet & Clank, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars, Green Arrow from Batman: The Brave and the Bold, the titular character of Johnny Test, Fred Flintstone from The Flintstones and Wooldoor Sockbat from Drawn Together. He's a man of thousands of voices, and makes you wonder why his anime roles are very small and limited, justified since he despises profanity. Listen for yourself to believe it!
• Clay Martin Croker is able to shift from raspy Zorak and deep Moltar (Space Ghost Coast to Coast) to hammy Dr. Weird and quirky Steve (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) with a surprisingly good range for a voice actor and animator. Not only he is a man of a thousand voices but also an animator of those thousand voices.
• Nathan Carlson is not only able to voice hundreds of characters from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi and Adventures in Odyssey but is also known as the deep-voiced Lizard (Spider-Man 3).
• Chances are, if you play a video game, Nolan North is in it. He's even played black guys at times.
  • To the point where there's a "Nolan North" voice option for the Boss in Saints Row IV.
• Daran Norris has played both the wicked Vincent from the Cowboy Bebop movie and the idiotic Cosmo from The Fairly OddParents!, as well as Spotswoode from Team America: World Police, Belze in God Hand, several characters from Samurai Jack and Mad Scientist Rodyle in Tales of Symphonia.
• Nancy Cartwright: perhaps best known as Bart Simpson (The Simpsons), also voices Nelson, Ralph Wiggum, and Todd Flanders, along with Chuckie Finster (Rugrats), Rufus (Kim Possible), Margo Sherman (The Critic), and a host of other characters.
• Brendan O'Brien, in the first four Crash Bandicoot games alone, voiced Crash Bandicoot, Doctor Neo Cortex (before Clancy Brown took over starting with the second game), Doctor Nitrus Brio, Doctor N. Gin, Tiny Tiger and Pinstripe Potoroo.
• Roger L. Jackson is most famous for his role as the voice of Ghostface in all Scream movies, in contrast with Mojo Jojo of The Powerpuff Girls. He's done over 100 video game roles, as many named characters as extras, including at least 8 distinct characters throughout the Sam & Max series.
• Jim Ward the resident Voice Conspiracy Theorist on The Stephanie Miller Show, and gets plenty of requests for his imitations of Wolf Blitzer, Kim Jong-il, and Tom Brokaw. He's also the voice actor of Diamondhead, XLR8, and Wildvine (Ben 10), Chet Ubetcha (The Fairly OddParents!), Captain Qwark (Ratchet & Clank), Maximillian Strauss, Baron Isaac Abrams, and Brother Grünfeld Bach (Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines), and many, many other works, like Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, Dragon Age II, Destroy All Humans!, Killer7, Dirge of Cerberus, Knights of the Old Republic, and Resident Evil 4.
• Lani Minella is definitely one. She has appeared in over 500 video games in her 30-year career, including Starcraft, Diablo, World of Warcraft, and Nancy Drew... This video really shows her talent.
• Keith Ferguson in Dawn of War II does the voice of the Heretics, the Commisar, Plague Marines, various Orks including the Grot, and the ranger Rohnan from the Eldar Campaign in Retribution. He also does the voice of Bloo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and Reaper from Overwatch.
• David Kaye is simply amazing— and those are just the roles he's played in Transformers cartoons.
  • David Kaye is one of the few people, if not the only person, who has voiced both Optimus Prime and Megatron.
• Harry Partridge usually voices every character to appear in his cartoons himself. EVERY one.
• Rodger Bumpass. Squidward (Spongebob Squarepants) sounds absolutely nothing like Professor Membrane (Invader Zim).
• Jess Harnell: His Wakko (Animaniacs) voice sounds nothing like Captain Hero (Drawn Together). Then again, he's got a four-octave range.
• Dwight Schultz of The A-Team fame is a very prolific voice actor. He turns up in a lot of video games and animated shows. He's very good at switching accents and doing impressions.
• Star Trek
  • In Star Trek: The Animated Series, James Doohan and Majel Barrett show more range than you'd expect of them if you can only imagine the former saying "She canna take much more of this" and the latter saying "Unable to comply." The series had No Budget, so every male guest star was Doohan and every female guest star was Barrett. Exceptions are extremely rare (Harry Mudd gets his original TOS actor, for example.) You'd never be able to tell.
  • In Star Trek: The Original Series Doohan also voiced a few computers, disembodied spirits, and unseen characters.
• Play through the Mass Effect games as Guy!Shep. Every time you talk to a hanar, fight a vorcha, or attempt to understand Niftu Cal, Mark Meer is talking to himself. Amazed yet?.
• Kevin Michael Richardson is known for his deep bass voice, but sometimes he can show off his range by going into highs such as the Joker (The Batman), Cleveland Junior and Lester Krinklesac (The Cleveland Show), and Demongo (Samurai Jack). He also did a high-pitched old man voice when voicing Kamek.
• Joe Alaskey, who played most of the Looney Tunes characters at various times (Looney Tunes: Back in Action; Duck Dodgers; The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries) was the second Grandpa Pickles in Rugrats, dubbed Jackie Gleason for a reconstructed episode of The Honeymooners, and was the go-to guy for replacing swears in TV edits of movies.
• Jack Mercer, most famous for playing the role of Popeye in the bulk of his original cartoons, had an astoundingly versatile voice range for someone who never had professional training in voice acting. Besides being able to Popeye, whose voice is notoriously difficult to perform, he also voiced Felix the Cat (along with every other character) in the Trans-Lux TV cartoons. In the Fleischer and Famous cartoons, he frequently voiced many incidental characters, both major and minor for decades on end.
• Justin Roiland has a large amount of roles, ranging from Oscar in Fish Hooks to Lemongrab in Adventure Time. But the crowning achievement goes to his show Rick and Morty, where he not only voices the titular duo, but hundreds of other characters, including Mr. Meeseeks & Mr. Poopy Butthole.
• Canadian voice actor, Scott McCord has an endless list of voices which include (but not limited to); Owen, Trent, Brody, and Jacques (Total Drama), Skull Boy (Ruby Gloom), Dan Kuso (Bakugan), McGee (Camp Lakebottom), Yang (Yin Yang Yo!), Martin Troublemeyer (Sidekick), and Squidgy (Justin Time).
• Dwayne Hill qualifies as well. In Jimmy Two-Shoes, he voices Samy Garvin, General Molotov, the Weavil Chief, Dr. Scientist, and Dorkus (among others), while in Atomic Betty, he's Atomic Roger, Dr. Cerebral, Principal Peterson, Noah's dad, and Dylan, as well as all of Len Carlson's characters in Season 3 (Minimus, Spindly Tam Kanushu, Greenbeard) — and none of them even sound remotely like each other! Oh, there's also his role as Three on Seven Little Monsters, which has him doing a new voice every episode for the character's different personas!
• The Ur-Example would likely be Clarence "Ducky" Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck. In addition to the instantly-recognizable voice of Donald, he also did several spot-on animal noises. A good demonstration would be when he gets in an amusing argument with Donald during an episode of Disneyland.
• Alex Hirsch, in addition to creating Gravity Falls also voiced several of the characters present, including Stan, Soos, Old Man McGucket, Mayor Eustace Hucklebone Befufftlefumpter, Sir Lord Quentin Trembley III, Esq., a member of Sev'ral Timez, Dippy Fresh, and Bill Cipher.
• Brian Froud (no, not the fantasy artist) has a very impressive voice range. From the Sterotypical Nerd Harold and gamer geek Sam (Total Drama) to the dopey demon Beezy (Jimmy Two-Shoes) to the hyperactive cartoon mascot Marty (ToonMarty) to the unassuming Lynch Webber (Detentionaire) to the evil sorceress Magic Master (Chop Chop Ninja), he rarely ever does even the most remotely similar-sounding voice twice, as well as some dang good impressions of other cartoon characters.
• What about Cory Doran? Just listen to Mike and all his Split Personalities in Total Drama!
• Tom Kane voiced not only Mr. Herriman, but almost every single minor male character on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
• Most of the voice actors in any given Cosgrove-Hall cartoon series. Usually they only employ a handful of 3 or 4 actors to voice a whole series, but they manage to produce an amazing variety of voices. Even actors brought in specifically for one series because of a certain voice only they can provide prove to be no slouches.
• Jamie Watson. Seriously, how many people would believe you if you said that Quack from Peep and the Big Wide World was the same guy as Ron the Rent-A-Cop on 6teen (and Coach Halder from the same show)? To top it off, he's also Henry on Timothy Goes to School, Taury on Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, the Big Kahuna and Mr. Ridgemount on Stōked, Lokar on Redakai, Massimo and Russell on Producing Parker, and Carl the Evil Cockroach Wizard on Yin Yang Yo!, among other characters.
• Julie Lemieux is probably one of the biggest examples among Canadian voice actresses, being just as capable of pulling off young boys and teenage girls as she is of doing old ladies and powerful villains. Just look at her credits list and try to find how many of her characters sound alike.
• Robert Tinkler. Just check out the list of characters he's voiced: Max on The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police, the title character of Pelswick, Rubeus on Sailor Moon, Delete on Cyberchase, Howie on Almost Naked Animals, Woodstock in the current Peanuts cartoons, Grumpy Bear on the 2000s Care Bears direct-to-DVD movies...
• Sonja Ball has voiced Jane Read (Arthur), Polly Esther (Samurai Pizza Cats), Beauty Stem and Panther Cap (Toad Patrol), Nai-Nai (Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat), Huckle Cat (The Busy World of Richard Scarry), and many others since the 1980's.
• Terrence Scammell is the voice of Fur Foot (Toad Patrol), Guido Anchovie (Samurai Pizza Cats), Darph Bobo (Tripping the Rift)... and a whole lot more. Try to see if any of the three mentioned sound alike.
• Eric Bauza. He voiced Stimpy on Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", Foop on The Fairly OddParents!, as well as Marvin the Martian on The Looney Tunes Show, Tigar Claw from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), and recently, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (among other roles) on Looney Tunes Cartoons.
• Chuck McCann. Who would have thought Sonny the Cuckoo Bird (Cocoa Puffs), The Thing (Fantastic Four: The Animated Series), The Ameoba Boys (The Powerpuff Girls), and Duckworth (DuckTales (1987)) were voiced by the same guy?
• Rich Little has made a career of this, famously voicing Richard Nixon, Groucho Marx, Humphrey Bogart, and Johnny Carson, even performing in a one-man show retelling the Robin Hood legend via impressions of celebrities of the day. Oh, and he was also one of the only voice actors to actually speak as The Pink Panther.
• Chris Diamantopoulos is not only recognized for his acting chops in the live-action medium, his incredible range as a voice actor is something to behold. To the point where you don't even realize he was voicing a character until you look at the credits. Most notably he is the voice of Mickey Mouse in Mickey Mouse (2013), but he's also voiced Darkwing Duck and Storkules in DuckTales (2017), ROBOTUS in Inside Job (2021), Green Arrow in Justice League Action and Aquaman in Harley Quinn (2019), all of them completely unrecognizable from each other. His vocal range is well exemplified in this video.
• Peter Cullen provided both the baritone of Optimus Prime and the "screechy angry man" voice of Murky Dismal, in two separate shows being produced at the same time. And then there's voices like Winnie the Pooh's Eeyore.
• John Alderton voiced every character (including female characters like Dilys & Bella) in Fireman Sam Series 1-4. Series 5 did just as well, with one voice actor, John Sparkes, & two voice actresses, Sarah Hadland & Joanna Ruiz, voicing all of the characters.
• Chris Phillips may be most known for being the original voice of Excited Kids' Show Host Face, but he has also voiced a wide variety of types ranging from schoolyard bully Roger Klotz (taking over from Billy West), to helpful yet ditzy father Ernest Otter, to sadistic occultist Crowley, and even hammy gang leader El Burro.
• Charlie Schlatter's resume consists of badass action heroes like Wonder Red, Ace Bunny and The Flash, but he's also voiced a couple villains like Kevin Levin and Specter (in the third game). In Pet Alien, he voices numerous characters who all sound completely different from each other, like young boy Tommy Cadle, American jock Clinton, Old Man Bitters, and hammy black hole warlord Bob. As shown in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, he can also do a near-perfect imitation of Quinton Flynn's Raiden.
• Lewis MacLeod is a Scottish vocal mimic with a range including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Christopher Walken, Gordon Brown, Boris Johnson and George Galloway. He's the official voice of Sebulba and even voiced Obi-Wan (a role played by fellow Scottish actor Ewan McGregor). He's one of the two voice actors that did the Infected Voices for The Last Days on Mars. He voiced Draco Malfoy and the Weasley twins in the video games for The Chamber of Secrets and The Prisoner of Azkaban. He even voiced Dumbledore in The Order of The Phoenix. He also provided the voices of Principal Brown, Rocky Robinson, Mr. Small, Miss Simian, and the Doughnut Sheriff in the first season of Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball.

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