Gábor Vass
Gábor Vass (June 23, 1956 - January 13, 2021) was a highly prolific Hungarian actor and voice actor, famous for his deep, booming voice. He often dubbed actors like Charlton Heston, Jim Byrnes, Samuel L. Jackson, Sean Connery (mainly in the James Bond film franchise), William Shatner and Burt Raynolds. Notable dubbing roles in live-action works also included John McClane in the first dub of Die Hard, Maximus from Gladiator, Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager and Aslan in the Narnia films.
He was the go-to dubbing actor for many villain roles, having voiced Shredder of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Mumm-Ra of the 2011 ThunderCats series, Makuta of the Bionicle films, Ruber of the first Quest for Camelot dub, Syn Shenron in Dragon Ball GT, Octomus the Master in Power Rangers Mystic Force, and even Darth Vader's single line in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker.
In animation, he was most well known as the main Hungarian voice of Scooby-Doo, dubbing the canine in seven cartoon series and almost every movie and crossover appearance, concluding with Scoob. In Disney works, he voiced Sebastian the crab (The Little Mermaid and followups), Mufasa (The Lion King and followups), Dr. Facilier (The Princess and the Frog) and Pete in various cartoons and shorts. Also dubbed the Red Guy from Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel, Norbert from Angry Beavers, Aquaman from Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Ricardio the Heart Guy from Adventure Time, Balto from the Balto animated films, and Yogi Bear in certain Hanna-Barbera cartoons. As well, he often voiced Jor-El in various live action and animated Superman productions. In anime, he played Batou in both dubs of 1995's Ghost in the Shell movie, Jiraiya in both dubs of Naruto and Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio in Bleach.
Outside of dubbing, he appeared as the character Vitéz in the '80s Hungarian soap Szomszédok, and regularly did voice-overs for documentary and reality shows, television commercials and movie trailers. Gábor passed away from complications of Covid-19.
Voice Work
[edit]The Transformers
[edit]- Narrator, various toy commercials
External Links
[edit]- IMDB entry
- [[wikipedia:{{#if:hu|hu:}}Vass Gábor|{{#if:Hungarian Wiki entry|Hungarian Wiki entry|Vass Gábor}}]] (Hungarian)
- Hungarian Voice Acting Database entry (Hungarian)