Man of a Thousand Voices

"If we had some sort of machine which could imitate any voice, we'd only need one voice actor."
"We do; it's called 'Billy West'."

— Futurama DVD Commentary

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Voice Actors known for a wide range of voices, and therefore voicing Loads and Loads of Characters. Fact is, the industry is incredibly small, and there just aren't enough actors to cover all the exponentially increasing amount of characters and projects created each year. Being versatile is required.

Bonus points if the actor is able to avert Larynx Dissonance and Not Even Bothering with the Accent, but it's not vital.

Name comes from a nickname given to Mel Blanc, who was responsible for nearly every classic Looney Tunes character. (This is an exaggeration, however. He admits in his autobiography that he "only" did about 850 voices.)

Can overlap with Talking to Himself, if the actor does multiple roles on the same show.

Interestingly enough, the vast majority of voice actors and vocal work don't create "voices" but are largely using their own natural voice with slight tonal changes, pitched up or down. Thus it is still possible for a Pigeonholed Voice Actor to ironically also have "a thousand voices," just people aren't aware of their versatility.

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Not to be confused with Voice Changeling or Voice of the Legion.

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Just choose a few key roles to give an idea of the actors' ranges. Save large lists for their own pages.

• English

Japanese

• The undisputed king of this in Japanese voice acting was Kei Tomiyama, who was basically the Japanese equivalent of Mel Blanc, When he died of pancreatic cancer in 1995, many of his roles were taken over by the equally-talented Kōichi Yamadera, discussed below.
• Kōichi Yamadera, the voice of Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop), Ryouga Hibiki (Ranma ½)... and Donald Duck. (No, really— that's him in the Japanese version of Kingdom Hearts.) He's also the go-to guy for Japanese dubs of Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams. See The Other Wiki for a fuller listing.
• Kenji Utsumi's vocal range can best be summed up by watching his work in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z: you'd never suspect that he voiced the Badass Baritone Shenron, the high-pitched Large Ham announcer of the Tenkaichi Budokai, the sinister Commander Red, and Recoome all at once. Likewise, you could hardly relate those voices as belonging to the same voice actor as Raoh and Kaioh (Fist of the North Star), the latter of whom even gets a noticeably different voice when he has his helmet on, even when excluding the breathy-voice filter.
• Megumi Hayashibara and Hikaru Midorikawa are so prolific that you could probably connect everybody else in anime to them within one or two steps.
• Hiroki Takahashi may not be the most prolific seiyuu around, but he's certainly very varied. Cases in point: Monster Clown Hisoka from Hunter × Hunter, Genki Guy Kikumaru Eiji from The Prince of Tennis, Superbia "Shouts all his lines" Squalo from Reborn! (2004), Butt-Monkey Harima Kenji from School Rumble, Stoic Ryu from Street Fighter, soft spoken Japan from Hetalia: Axis Powers, and the foul-mouthed Kukri from The King of Fighters.
• Toshihiko Seki, who can range from cheerful fun guy (Duel Maxwell from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing) to irritable badass (Genjo Sanzo from Saiyuki) to...quack (Mousse from Ranma ½).
• Akira Ishida is another guy that's everywhere but with a lot of range- in particular, he once did a bit in Gintama in which the one character he voices had an elaborate daydream sequence. He literally talked to himself for something like 10 minutes, all in various male AND female voices.
  • Taken Up to Eleven when he voices fourty-six characters all by himself in a smartphone game called Chain Chronicle.
  • Another insane call in Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu. He voiced only one character there... an In-Universe Man Of A Thousand Voices, from his teenage years to adulthood and then old ages, including segments when the man voices various characters (many of whom are female) in his rakugo performances.
• Wataru Takagi (Yes, he both voiced and gave his name to Wataru Takagi from Detective Conan). In what is quite possibly the greatest showcase of vocal talent in Street Fighter history, he pulls quintuple-duty as Gen, Birdi, Adon, Zangief, and Sodom in the Alpha.
  • Add the title character of Scaredy Squirrel, and the current voice of Daffy Duck, to the mix.
• Yuichi Nagashima, aka Cho. This guy voiced Jaken (Inuyasha), Hiroshi Uchiyamada (Great Teacher Onizuka), Elmer Fudd (Looney Tunes), Brook (One Piece), Blitzwing (Transformers Animated), Gollum (The Lord of the Rings) and Scooby-Doo.
• Aya Hirano is one of the few seiyuus that doesn't get typecast. She went from eccentric with Jerkass tendencies (Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya) to an obsessed, otaku highschooler (Konata from Lucky Star) to a Les Yay teacher (Yoko from School Rumble's second season) to an almost-godly little girl (Lumière from Kiddy Grade) to a Stalker with a Crush (Misa from Death Note) to serious Action Girl (Chiko from The Daughter of Twenty Faces).
  • She also voices Dende from Dragon Ball Z Kai, who (though a member of a one-gender race), is considered male.
• Kotono Mitsuishi is known for performing a wide variety of characters, ranging from Sailor Moon and Excel Saga's Excel Excel to Misato Katsuragi (Neon Genesis Evangelion), Mireille Bouquet (Noir), Juri Arisugawa (Revolutionary Girl Utena) and Ebichu (Oruchuban Ebichu).
• Tomokazu Seki has voiced characters ranging from The Stoic Sousuke Sagara in Full Metal Panic!, to one of Those Two Guys Jun Kitagawa in Kanon, to Manipulative Bastard Big Bad Reiji Kageyama in Gate Keepers, to Hot-Blooded mecha pilot Domon Kasshu in Mobile Fighter G Gundam, to Weasel Mascot Mepple in Futari wa Pretty Cure, to Large Ham Gilgamesh in Fate/stay night.
  • Let's not forget he voiced Brandon "Beyond the Grave" Heat in Gungrave, as well as in the second game of the video game series, Gungrave: O.D. (Overdose)
  • He is also Aloof Big Brother Touya Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura.
• You'd think Sanae Kobayashi is pigeonholed as either Tsunderes (Akira from My-HiME) or boys (the other Akira, from Hikaru no Go)... Go and say the same when you hear her as Naïve Everygirl Kumi Mashiba from Hajime no Ippo, the Yandere Lucy/Cutie Nyu in Elfen Lied, or the titular Action Girl from Madlax.
• Chiwa Saito has, as just an example, voiced a Genki Action Girl, a perpetually angry member of the Quirky Mini Boss Squad, and a villainous Smug Snake - all in the same show, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS!
• Kappei Yamaguchi is most often cast in the role of Shōnen heroes, such as Ranma Saotome (Ranma ½), Inuyasha, Sai Saici (Mobile Fighter G Gundam), and Teddie (Persona 4), but his range is deceptively wide. One need look no further than his role as L in Death Note for proof of this.
• Makiko Ohmoto has a wide array of voices, from The Ojou and motherly figures to Shōnen heroes, all the way to Kirby.
• Daisuke Namikawa is one of the voice actors pegged down in roles that could very much grate your skull, playing the irritating Katz Kobayashi (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam), the rough and wild Michael Trinity (Mobile Suit Gundam 00), and the super loud-mouthed Miyamoto Musashi (Sengoku Basara). However, he also had his share of straight, goody-two-shoes heroes, such as the main character of Persona 4, Cornelius (Odin Sphere) or the remake voice of Claude Kenni (Star Ocean 1). Then you've got the melancholic, manipulative Beta Baddie Ulquiorra Sciffer (Bleach) or the ultra-manipulative Big Bad Toutaku from Ikki Tousen amongst his portfolio. Then you'll never look at him the same again.
  • He also does dubs of lots of famous actors like Brad Pitt, Elijah Wood...
  • And he's Lucario from Pokémon.
  • He also voices BOTH North and South Italy (Hetalia: Axis Powers).
• Toshiyuki Morikawa does The Hero roles (Ryu from Street Fighter and Takaya, aka D-Boy, from Tekkaman Blade), The Stoic roles (Kyosuke from Super Robot Wars), Evil Bastard roles (Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII)... very affable father that sounds so light (Forbessi from SHUFFLE!), and loud-mouthed idiots (Nobunaga Kiyota from Slam Dunk).
• Miyuki Sawashiro is what some people call versatile; she can voice spunky boys with a cheery attitude, like Milanor from Yggdra Union or Carl Clover from BlazBlue, a demanding Ojou such as Perrine or Shinku, or cute bubbly Nekomimi girls like Nike (Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis) or Mint (Galaxy Angel). Younger characters are not her only forte either: Stripperiffic, troubled Velvet (Odin Sphere) and Woman Scorned Hotarubi (Basilisk) would like a word with you.
  • She's also one of the first seiyuu to reprise a role originally dubbed in Japanese in the English dub of an anime. She reprised her role as Puchiko in the "Leave it To Piyoko" OVA of Di Gi Charat (She wasn't available for the last 2 episodes, so she was replaced by Karen Strassman, Puchiko's VA in the original dub)
• Takehito Koyasu has probably literally voiced a thousand roles... from a fallen prince who fights for world peace (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing), to a displaced samurai piloting an apocalyptic machine with a lust for fighting (∀ Gundam)...even a comic relief Ascended Fanboy who wants to shoot fire (The King of Fighters)!
• Try pigeonholing Nobutoshi Canna. This man has voiced badasses in many flavors, from laid back badasses (Midou Ban from Get Backers and Lancer from Fate/stay night), scary badasses (Guts from Berserk, Serious!Axel Almer from Super Robot Wars, Cao Pi from Dynasty Warriors) or goof off badasses (Silly!Axel from Super Robot Wars and Tasuki from Fushigi Yuugi). If that's not enough, he also has three Bruce Lee Clone roles on his resume (Maxi from Soul Series, Lee Pai Long from Shaman King, Jann Lee from Dead or Alive), or someone who sounds like a clown (Nnoitra Gilga, (Bleach), and the voice who yells "LISTEN TO MY SOOOOONGGGG!!!" (Macross 7).
  • He's also pulled off the sensitive young Nowaki in Junjou Romantica, a startling contrast with every character listed above. Nobutoshi’s capable of bringing the smoove when called upon.
• Kaori Shimizu manages to completely avoid being pigeonholed. Even though most fans know her as the mature, deep voice of smart women such as Akira (School Rumble), Signum (Lyrical Nanoha) and Lamia (Super Robot Wars), she is also capable of cutesy voices starting with the melancholic Lain (Serial Experiments Lain), hysterical Lou (Godannar), and weird Yuri Fan Hiyori (Lucky Star).
  • To make things more obvious, she is also capable of switching her voices from the deep one to the cutesy one in a split second (in Lamia/Aschen's case). Pigeonhole that!
  • Not to mention convincingly voicing the three different personalities of Lain in Serial Experiments Lain. And this is her debut role.
  • Recently, she has put her name as one of the cast of Tales of Hearts... as someone who is a prime candidate for a soft-spoken Mysterious Waif.
• Ryotaro Okiayu is certainly one hell of a man hard to peg down on his roles. One second he plays the role of a bumbling man often used for comedy relief, the next he plays a villainous role, after which he plays a cool-headed guy and then The Stoic type...
• Rie Kugimiya is more often a Pigeonholed Voice Actor, playing Tsundere characters such as Shana (Shakugan no Shana), Louise (The Familiar of Zero) and Nagi (Hayate the Combat Butler). But when allowed to step outside the Pigeonhole, she shows surprising range, such as Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) and both Deadpan Snarker Kurosaki Karin and Emotionless Girl Nemu from Bleach.
• Sayaka Ohara definitely; despite mostly playing mothers, she voiced Large Ham Beatrice in Umineko: When They Cry, Hot Witch Yuuko in ×××HOLiC, and Magic Knight Erza in Fairy Tail.
  • Especially noteworthy in Umineko: When They Cry where she voices not only Beatrice III/Yasu but also: Beatrice Castiglioni, Beatrice Ushiromiya and Clair Vauxof Bernard while making them all sound unique.
• Jun Fukuyama has voiced Magnificent Bastard Lelouch (Code Geass), Extreme Masochist Sado Taro (MM!), Brilliant, but Lazy Ryner (The Legend of the Legendary Heroes) and Large Ham Leopard (The Girl Who Leapt Through Space).
  • Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan deserves special mention in showing off his range, since he voices both of Rikuo's forms. In it, he shows off both the young boy style that he started out with, and the more mature voice that became more prominent after landing his role in Code Geass.
• Ayako Kawasumi, from the stoic Saber (Fate/stay night), to the gentle Princess Henrietta (The Familiar of Zero), then the Alpha Bitch Saki Tenjouin (To Love-Ru).
• Houko Kuwashima is very prolific and has an amazing range, making it hard to find two of her roles that sound the same. Who would have thought that Yurika (Martian Successor Nadesico), Kagura (Azumanga Daioh), Sango (Inuyasha), and Fllay (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED) are all voiced by the same person?
• Katsuyuki Konishi has proven that he can do quite a variety of characters. From cold and calculated robot-ninjas (GaoGaiGar) to the Leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime (Transformers Energon), and all the way to the most Badass badass to ever exist in anime (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann). Coincidentally, all three examples have some kind of leader-role...
  • He's also the Child-rearing Badass of Beelzebub and THE HERO!!! (America of Hetalia: Axis Powers)
• Tetsuya Kakihara has also proven he can do a good number of voices. His most famous roles are probably Simon the Digger (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) and Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail), though he's also done a lot of other voices. In particular, check out how he did Jin Kisaragi and Hakumen (both from BlazBlue).
  • He played the three German (and English) speaking Devices Graf Eisen, Laevatein, and Strada and the Saint Cradle (speaks German, too) from Lyrical Nanoha. He played all of them with a different voice.
• Nobuyuki Hiyama should get some credit too. Sure, his voices doesn't differ much between two characters in the same situation, but he sure can go from completely calm to yelling in the most awesome way you'll ever hear within seconds, and drastically change his voice in the process.
• Yuki Kaida has voiced Bishōnen Cute Bruiser China, Plucky Girl Friend to All Living Things Taiwan, and the Narrator from Hetalia: Axis Powers. Then there's Dude Looks Like a Lady Extreme Omnivore Shusuke (Shuusuke? Syusuke?) and his Cool Big Sis Yumiko from The Prince of Tennis. And Hot-Blooded Badass Adorable Abe Masahiro from Shōnen Onmyōji. While usually typecast as a young bishounen (usually with some form of hidden baddassery), she has had quite a variety of roles.
• Pika Aizawa, who is reportedly a student training to become a professional voice actress, has played a total of 26 characters so far in her fandub of the Touhou Project fanime Fantasy Kaleidoscope. (Its episodes are initially released without voice acting, only music, sound effects and Japanese subtitles.)
• In a non-voice actor example, singer Jun Togawa can go from sounding like a child to a very deep voice to sweet teenager to operatic singing, often within the same song.
• Nana Mizuki, who, on top of being able to put her voice into song, has pulled off roles such as Nagisa from Phantasy Star Universe entry Portable 2 Infinity, Tsubomi Hanasaki from Heartcatch Pretty Cure, and Neige Hausen from Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Endless Frontier EXCEED.
• Yuuichi Nakamura is a brilliant example of an actor with huge vocal diversity: he can go from a sadistic Troll (Yuki Terumi from BlazBlue) to a stoic Bruce Lee Clone (Fei Long from Street Fighter II) to a Cool Loser (Kyousuki Kousaka from Oreimo), and you can't tell that's it's the same actor doing all these voices.
• Yoshitsugu Matsuoka has an impressive repertoire, being able to go from expository hero Kirito (Sword Art Online) to dorky harem leads Tomoya Aki (How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend) and Bell Cranel (Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?) to perverted Aito (The Comic Artist and His Assistants) and arrogant Soma (Food Wars!).

Spanish

• Jorge "El Tata" Arvizu can be easily considered as Mel Blanc’s Latin Spanish counterpart, having dubbed, among others, Barney Rubble and Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones); Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Maxwell Smart from Get Smart, (including the 2007 film), and Choo-Choo Benny the Ball (Top Cat).
• Gerardo Reyero was known for using his bass-baritone voice in ultra serious, by-the-book roles (Cyclops from X-Men, Mamoru "Darien" Chiba from Sailor Moon, Jun Uozumi from Slam Dunk). That is, until he did fantastic work as the loud, cheerful and energetic Large Ham Gai-sensei in Naruto, and then the Bunny-Ears Lawyer Ukitake from Bleach...
  • He's also Frieza (Dragon Ball), Captain Hero (Drawn Together), The Chief (T.U.F.F. Puppy), and Gantu (Lilo & Stitch).
• You might be able to recognize Patricia Acevedo's sweet soprano voice very easily, but even then, you can't forget she's done young boys (Kissyfur, Yaiba Kurogane from Yaiba, Chaozu from Dragon Ball), Magical Girls (Usagi/Serena from Sailor Moon, Sally from Sally the Witch), sweet yet strong girls (Alexis/Asuka from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Lisa Simpson from The Simpsons, Lizzie Devine of Codename: Kids Next Door), cynical young ladies (Rosa from Cyborg 009), mother roles (Chichi from Dragon Ball Z), spoiled little kids (Angelica Pickles from Rugrats), Yanderes (Ryoumou from Ikki Tousen), or even badass Action Girls (Princess Adora aka She-Ra: Princess of Power).
• Arturo Mercado has voiced Shaggy (Scooby-Doo), Yoda and Lando (Star Wars), Fred Flintstone (The Flintstones), the Beast (Beauty and the Beast), Hamm (Toy Story), Petrie (The Land Before Time), Darkwing Duck, Simba of The Lion King (1994), Bob the Builder, Zarbon (Dragon Ball Z) and a lot more. He's turning 80, and his range is comparable to the aforementioned Jorge Arvizu.

Portuguese

• Márcio Simões does comic characters such as the Genie (Aladdin), Hades (Hercules), and Daffy Duck; badasses such as Samuel L. Jackson and Jack Bauer (24); leaders like Horatio Caine (CSI: Miami), Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation), and Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987); and even villains such as Lex Luthor (Superman Returns) and David Xanatos (Gargoyles).
  • He's also Mike Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie.
• Guilherme Briggs is usually a Large Ham - his favorite roles to play were Freakazoid! and Daggett (The Angry Beavers) - but he also does serious roles such as Mewtwo (Pokémon), Superman, Optimus Prime (Transformers) and Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen).
  • And also Him (The Powerpuff Girls), with which he gleefully chews the scenery when he gets the chance.
  • He's Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and Mickey Mouse, as well.
• Alexandre Moreno is also usually over-the-top (Bugs Bunny, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Puss in Boots, Chris Tucker, Max from Total Drama) or comedic (Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller), but he also does the odd serious role (the first Red Ranger from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Michael Corleone of The Godfather, Jude Law).
  • He's also Tom Servo (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie).
• Marco Antônio Costa is the voice actor for George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and also... Plucky Duck (Tiny Toon Adventures), Bonkers D. Bobcat, Hugh Neutron (Jimmy Neutron), Rex (Toy Story), Stimpy (The Ren & Stimpy Show) and Woody Woodpecker?
• Orlando Drummond voices some comedic characters, such as ALF, Scooby-Doo (his signature role), Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Hong Kong Phooey; cool old guys like George Burns and Santa Claus, and badasses including Popeye, The Thing (Fred and Barney Meet the Thing) and Venger (Dungeons & Dragons). He also dubbed comedic and badass variations of the same character: Cringle/Battlecat in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983).
• Carmen Sheila dubbed one of Donald Duck's nephews, Tweety (Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird), annoying/bratty girls (Dee Dee from Dexter's Laboratory and Elmyra from Tiny Toons), action girls (Cheetara from ThunderCats (1985) and Steelheart from SilverHawks), beautiful live-action actresses like Cher and Jessica Lange, and cool old ladies, like Madame Foster (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends).
• The late Silvio Navas was versatile within a single show: in the 80's animation The Smurfs, he dubbed Papa Smurf, Farmer Smurf, and Vanity Smurf, with a completely different voice for each one (and sometimes leading to Talking to Himself). In ThunderCats (1985), he showed his versatility in a single character: Mumm-Ra, as he dubbed both main versions of him (pre and post transformation) as well as most of his male disguises (Pumm-Ra, King Arthur, Third Earth random inhabitants).
• Rodrigo Oliveira is a rising star in the Brazilian dubbing industry, voicing characters ranging from Owen (Total Drama) and Black Panther (Captain America: Civil War) to Zazu (The Lion Guard) and Malphite (League of Legends).
• In Portugal, the most notable example is Carlos Freixo, with his range varying from comic characters like Goofy, Daffy Duck, Sylvester (Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird) and Elmer Fudd, to hero characters like Simba from The Lion King (1994) and Cyborg (Teen Titans).

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Finnish

• Antti Pääkkönen is probably the most easily-known voice actor working in Finland today. He started in 1990 and has since starred in more than 80 films and dozens of series. It's impossible to list all of his roles, but some of the most well known are Mickey Mouse (has been the official voice since 1995), Bugs Bunny (from the late '90s), and Woody in every Toy Story movie.

French

• In the French dub of The Simpsons, Régine Teyssot voices virtually every woman and child character (except for the Simpson family, Milhouse and Jimbo).
• Marie-Laure Beneston takes this to an extreme in South Park, where she voices EVERY female character, as well as a few boys (such as Ike and Pip).
• Roger Carel has been Asterix, ALF, C-3PO (Star Wars), Winnie-the-Pooh (and Rabbit and Piglet), Kermit the Frog, Captain Caveman, Basil of Baker Street (The Great Mouse Detective), Rincewind (Discworld), a whole bunch of Hanna-Barbera characters, a whole bunch of Disney characters, and countless others. Not to mention his dubbing roles such as Benny Hill (The Benny Hill Show), Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid) and Hercule Poirot (Poirot).
• Canadian French-born actor Richard Darbois is Batman (Batman: The Animated Series), Captain Harlock, the Genie (Aladdin), Oogie-Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas), the Kurgan (Highlander), Barf (Spaceballs), Hook, Madmartigan (Willow), Buffalo Bill (The Silence of the Lambs), Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story), Russ Cargill (The Simpsons Movie), Bruce (Finding Nemo) and Shan-Yu (Mulan). He's also dubbed Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, and Jeff Goldblum, among others.
• Belgian French actress Carole Baillien is Adam Lyon (My Gym Partner's a Monkey), Bloom (Winx Club), Bretzel from Pound Puppies (2010), Carrie Black ( Orange Is the New Black), Donna Noble (Doctor Who), Hera Syndulla (Star Wars Rebels), Mabel (Gravity Falls), Martha (Martha Speaks), Naruto, Nicolas and Sissi (Code Lyoko), Noah (Jacob Two-Two), Nobita and Sewashi (Doraemon), Trixie Tang (The Fairly Oddparents), and a lot more.
• Before his sudden death of a heart attack in 2011, Patrick Guillemin was Ned Flanders, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Smithers, Reverend Lovejoy, Carl Carlson, Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Superintendent Chalmers, Troy McClure, Lionel Hutz, and many more in the European French dub of The Simpsons (from seasons 1-9), Miles Dyson (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Max Shreck (Batman Returns), Dr. Frederick Chilton (The Silence of the Lambs), Hamton J. Pig (Tiny Toon Adventures), Fantasio (Spirou and Fantasio), Speed (The Swan Princess), Bartok (Anastasia), Capt. Harris (Police Academy: The Animated Series), Daffy Duck, Taz (Looney Tunes), and Wile E. Coyote (Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner) (as well as Sylvester from Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird and Pepé Le Pew sometimes).

German

• Tilo Schmitz is just the guy you need for deep-voiced characters. He's voiced Pete (Mickey Mouse), Eeyore (Winnie-the-Pooh), Mr. Black and Mr. White (Johnny Test), Yosemite Sam (The Looney Tunes Show), Basil (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic), Cassim (Aladdin and the King of Thieves), Dr. Sweet (Atlantis: The Lost Empire), Ranjan's father from The Jungle Book (1967), Vlad (the thug that plays with unicorns in Tangled), Cobra Bubbles (Lilo & Stitch) and Dennis (The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie).
• Frank Schaff has an impressive voice range. He has voiced Yakko Warner (Animaniacs), Terence (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut), Wilt (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), and Norbert (Angry Beavers), all while being near unrecognizable in each role.

Danish

• Anders Matthesen has more than once been the entire cast of his shows.
• Lars Thiesgaard has been Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994), Dexter (Dexter's Laboratory), I.M. Weasel (I Am Weasel), Johnny Bravo, Pegleg Pete (Goof Troop), Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh), Gargamel (The Smurfs), The Red Guy (Cow and Chicken), Professor Utonium (The Powerpuff Girls), Bob the Builder, Scooby-Doo, the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes (as well as Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny), Don Karnage (TaleSpin), Top Cat, The Joker (DC Animated Universe), Yoda (Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Barney Rubble (The Flintstones), and Pinky (Pinky and the Brain)... among many others.

Hungarian

• Gyula Szombathy voices (or has once voiced) Donald Duck, Goofy, Goofy's narrator, Porky Pig, Pepé Le Pew, Frasier, Popeye, Kaa from The Jungle Book (1967), Scuttle from The Little Mermaid, Fagin from Oliver & Company, Gizmoduck from DuckTales (1987), Mambo from Teen Titans, Mung Daal from Chowder, and Billy the rat from Cat City (Macskafogó). He also voices Steve Martin in The Pink Panther (2006) and The Pink Panther 2.
• István Mikó voices Winnie-the-Pooh, Robin Williams (including the Genie from Aladdin), Ray from The Princess and the Frog, Bernard from The Rescuers, Archimedes from The Sword in the Stone, and Barney Rubble in one of the several dubs of The Flintstones.
• József Kerekes voices Peter Griffin from Family Guy, Donkey from the Shrek franchise, Dale from Chip and Dale, Wildcat from TaleSpin, Barney Rubble from a VHS-only The Flintstones dub, Lumpy Space Princess in Adventure Time, Pesto from Animaniacs, Drix from Ozzy & Drix, Roquefort from The Aristocats, Chester from Codename: Kids Next Door, Jimbo Kern from South Park's early seasons, Verminious Snaptrap in T.U.F.F. Puppy, Kowalski from Madagascar and its Sequel and spin-offs, and is the official Hungarian voice of Jim Carrey.
• Gábor Seder provides the voices for Futurama's Bender, Quagmire from Family Guy, Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy, Heatblast, Ghostfreak and probably a bunch of other aliens in Ben10, Dr. Blowhole from The Penguins of Madagascar, Ling-Ling from Drawn Together, all life-stages of Emrick the Petalar and several Lizard soldiers in Thundercats2011. There is way more, but those are in his regular voice.
  • As Mike in Total Drama, Seder shows his true range because of the character's split personalities.

Polish

• Jarosław Boberek has voiced Donald Duck, The Red Guy (Cow and Chicken), Geoff (Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race), King Julien (The Penguins of Madagascar), Ed (Ed, Edd n Eddy), Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)^note Only in sequels and the series, Korgan (Baldur's Gate), Nathan Drake (Uncharted), and Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls). He also usually dubs various Jackie Chan's roles (The Spy Next Door, The Karate Kid (2010), Around the World in 80 Days (2004), and Kung Fu Panda).
• Monika Pikuła has quite a decent range: she can go from voicing little girls such as Panini (Chowder), Action Girls such as Princess Leia (Star Wars), or even evil women such as Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender), but she usually sticks to teenage girls such as Candace (Phineas and Ferb).
• Ireneusz Załóg, owner of the IZ-Text studio in Katowice as well as a regular talent at fellow Katowice studio MediaVox. Many dubs produced in Katowice for Fox Kids/Jetix/Disney XD and Polsat JimJam have featured his talents. He has voiced, among others, Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic X; Porter C. Powell, Soundwave and Ultra Magnus in Transformers Animated; and half of the respective casts of Wunschpunsch and Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Swedish

• Swedish voice actor and comedian Dan Ekborg is a strange case, in that he is both this trope and a Pigeonholed Voice Actor. He is Pigeonholed in the sense that he is always cast as humorous characters, good or evil. Instead he uses his wide vocal range solely for the Rule of Funny, most famously in his role as the Genie from Aladdin.
• Anders Öjebo is the current Swedish voice of Mickey Mouse since the early 90s. He also was the voice of Iago in Aladdin (and the following TV-series and direct-to-video sequels), Darkwing Duck, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy in Muppets from Space and The Muppet Christmas Carol, Tony Stark in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!, Timon in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride and Timon & Pumbaa, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in the 1996 redub of Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Cubby in the 1992 redub of Peter Pan, Pongo in the 1996 redub of 101 Dalmatians (as well as the TV-series and the sequel) and Tito in the 1997 redub of Oliver & Company.

Russian

• Olga Shorokhova does all the female and little kid voices in Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil in a small cast of five actors. Her other voice roles include Aang, Toph, and Ty Lee (all from Avatar: The Last Airbender), Wendy and Gideon (Gravity Falls), Korra (The Legend of Korra), Spike, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, Apple Bloom, and Trixe (from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic) and Lindsay (Total Drama), amongst others.
• Alexander Novikov does a lot of male voices (usually The Big Guy or a Cool Old Guy) and is sometimes a voiceover announcer. He has voiced Muscle Man and Skips from Regular Show, Cyborg (Teen Titans Go!), Mr. Vickle (Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil) and others.
• Nikita Prozorovsky does almost all the adult male voices in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (except for a few higher-pitched and younger characters). In fact, Prozorovsky was the only male voice actor in the Russian dub of the first season. Besides the ponies, Prozorovsky can go from voicing teenagers such as Shaggy (Scooby-Doo) to adults such as Commissioner Gordon (The Dark Knight Trilogy).
• Dmitry Filimonov has a decent range: he can voice soft-spoken characters such as Cody (Total Drama) or Gingy (Shrek), EccentricMentors like Uncle Chan (Jackie Chan Adventures), Uncle Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender) or Sensei Wu (Ninjago), and even the threatening villains like Dr. Blowhole (The Penguins of Madagascar) or Professor Pericles (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated)!

Greek

• Spiros Bibilas is probably the voice actor in Greece and Cyprus. His most notable roles are Bugs Bunny, Piglet (Winnie-the-Pooh), Lazlo (Camp Lazlo), Nibbles/Tuffy (Tom and Jerry), Ron Stoppable (Kim Possible), Grouchy, Handy, Jokey, and others from The Smurfs (STAR dub), Gingy (Shrek), Iago (Aladdin), Zazu from The Lion King (1994), The Grand Duke (Cinderella), Adult Thumper (Bambi) and Doug.
• Tasos Kostis also has plenty of roles, including Goofy, Sylvester (Looney Tunes) (and sometimes Daffy Duck), Pumbaa from The Lion King (1994), Baloo from The Jungle Book (1967), Captain Hook (Peter Pan), James P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.), Inspector Gadget, Tantor (Tarzan), and Gargamel (The Smurfs).
• Akindynos Gkikas is a very famous voice actor in Greece, with his most famous roles in animation dubbing being Taz and Yosemite Sam from Looney Tunes, Winnie-the-Pooh, Ludwig Von Drake (Disney Ducks Comic Universe), Hank (Finding Dory), and Lion-O from ThunderCats (1985).

Norwegian

• Harald Mæhle is maybe the most famous VA in Norway because of his wide range of roles throughout his career. It would be impossible to list them all, but some of the more famous ones are Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Bugs Bunny, Frieza (Dragon Ball Z), Scrooge from DuckTales (1987), Pumbaa (The Lion King II: Simba's Pride), Cookie Monster and Bert (Sesame Street), Rabbit (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), Barney Rubble (The Flintstones) and Mr. Herriman (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends).
• Anders Hatlo is another one. Again, it would be impossible to list them all, but some of his most famous roles are: Iago (Aladdin), Tigger (The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh), Zazu from The Lion King (1994), Fidget (The Great Mouse Detective), Scarecrow (Magic Adventures of Mumfie), Petrie (The Land Before Time), King Harold (Shrek 2), Skipper (Madagascar), Darkwing Duck, Mr. Potato Head (Toy Story) and Philoctetes (Hercules).

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