Editing Wally Burr

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'''Wally Burr''' is an American voice actor and director. As the voice director for [[The Transformers (cartoon)|the original '' Transformers'' cartoon]], Burr has had many stories told of him by actors on the show, 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.quickstopentertainment.com/?p=1153&amp;page=2 Quick Stop Interview: Maurice LaMarche]</ref>

Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he has also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping.

===Generation 1===
*[[Dancitron]] Promoter
*[[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] (in "[[Kremzeek!]]")
*King [[Nergill]]
*Museum Guard (in "[[Masquerade]]")
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (in "[[Masquerade]]")
*[[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]] (in his [[Public service announcement|PSA]])
*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (in "[[War Dawn]]")
*[[Kremzeek]]

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

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

==References==
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