Editing Wally Burr

[[File:WallyBurrDVD.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Not to be confused with the similarly-named Autobot, [[Omni Productions|Wally]] [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]].]]

'''Wally Burr''' ([[June 2]], [[1926]] — [[July 10]], [[2017]]{{fact}}) was an American voice actor and voice director. He worked on numerous cartoons during the 80s, including the role of voice director on [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original '' Transformers'' cartoon]] and ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]''. Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping. Some voices he did included The Atom on ''Superfriends'', Emmett Benton on ''[[Jem]]'', Huang Zhong in ''Dynasty Warriors'', and Rock in ''Soulcalibur''.


==Voice roles==
===''The Transformers''===
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* [[Dancitron]] Promoter
* [[Jazz (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Jazz]] (in "[[Kremzeek!]]")
* [[Kremzeek]]
* Museum Guard (in "[[Masquerade]]")
* [[Nergill]]
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (in "[[Masquerade]]")
* [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] (in his [[Public service announcement|PSA]])
* [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (one line only, in "[[Traitor]]")
* [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (in "[[War Dawn (episode)|War Dawn]]")
}}

===''Transformers: Prime''===
* [[Kup (WFC)|Kup]] ([[BotCon 2013]])

==Voice direction==

*''[[The Transformers (cartoon)|The Transformers]]''

==Convention appearances==
*[[BotCon 2004]]
*[[BotCon 2005]]
*[[BotCon 2013]]

==Notes==
* Burr has had many stories told of him by actors, who universally recall his perfectionist recording sessions as exhausting, voice-straining experiences, to the point that [[Michael Bell]] jokingly implicated the strain involved as the cause of [[Orson Welles]]'s death.<ref>BotCon 2001 voice actor panel</ref> In contrast to most directors, Burr was regularly insistent on prolonging recording sessions out to the eight-hour maximum defined by the Screen Actor's Guild - whether, to quote [[Townsend Coleman]], "it was necessary or not."<ref>[http://jemlist.tripod.com/to0320.txt Truly Outrageous! The Jem Mailing List Vol 3 #20]</ref> That habit of his, it is said, was a major contributing factor to the 1987 animation voice artist strike; one of the striking actors' primary demands was the reduction of the maximum session length to four hours. [[Maurice LaMarche]] had less-kind words, suggesting that all Burr really wanted was for the actor to "parrot" the lines back to him as he himself would have performed them.<ref>[http://www.asitecalledfred.com/2006/08/14/quick-stop-interview-maurice-lamarche/2/ Quick Stop Interview: Maurice LaMarche]</ref> However, when LaMarche appeared at [[BotCon 2013]], he read a prepared (and lengthy) apology and redaction of his harsher criticisms, as Burr was also in attendance, leading to big smiles and handshakes between the two.

==External links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123030/ Wally Burr at the Internet Movie Database]

==References==
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