François Leccia

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"Tadashi, stand by to board!"

François Leccia (October 22, 1948 - July 12, 2009) was a French actor.

As a voice actor, he was the regular French voice of Harry Hamlin and dubbed several times actors such as Jack Coleman, John Travolta and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

In animation, he dubbed Arthur O'Connor and Dr Robinson in Tom Sawyer, Tommy, Jedaïte and Kunzite in Sailor Moon and Bob the Builder in the eponymous series. He is also the voice of Captain Harlock in the 1984 series Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX (following Richard Darbois who dubbed him in the 1978 series Space Pirate Captain Harlock).

Voice roles

The Transformers

Main roles

• Astrotrain
• Devcon
• Frenzy
• Octane
• Red Alert
• Sky Lynx
• Spike Witwicky (seasons 2-3-4)

Occasional substitutions

• Alpha Trion (The Search for Alpha Trion)
• Blitzwing (Tripe Takeover)

• Blurr (Dark Awakening)
• Bombshell (Traitor)
• Breakdown (Masquerade)
• Bruticus (B.O.T.)
• Cliffjumper (Traitor and Enter the Nightbird)
• Dead End (Trans-Europe Express)
• Dirge (Auto Berserk)
• Drag Strip (Masquerade)
• Galvatron (The Rebirth, Part 3)
• Hook (The Girl Who Loved Powerglide)
• Hound (Masquerade)
• Huffer (Blaster Blues)
• Jazz (Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1)
• Menasor (Masquerade)
• Motormaster (Masquerade)
• Onslaught (Starscream's Ghost)
• Perceptor (Desertion of the Dinobots, Quest for Survival, The Secret of Omega Supreme, Sea Change, Cosmic Rust and Dark Awakening)
• Powerglide (Blaster Blues)
• Ramjet (A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court)
• Rumble (8 episodes)
• Scourge (Surprise Party and Webworld)
• Scrapper (Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1)
• Shrapnel (Traitor)
• Skywarp (Traitor)
• Skyfire (Day of the Machines)
• Slag (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Sludge (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Soundwave (The Immobilizer, Atlantis, Arise!, Enter the Nightbird and Auto Berserk)
• Sparkplug Witwicky (The Immobilizer and Make Tracks)
• Springer (Webworld)
• Starscream (Traitor, The Immobilizer and Hoist Goes Hollywood)
• Sunstreaker (Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1)
• Swindle (Webworld)
• Teletraan I (The Girl Who Loved Powerglide)
• Thrust (Auto Berserk)
• Thundercracker (The Immobilizer and Atlantis, Arise!)
• Tracks (The Secret of Omega Supreme and Prime Target)
• Trailbreaker (Blaster Blues)
• Ultra Magnus (The Movie)
• Warpath (Prime Target)
• Wheeljack (Atlantis, Arise! and Enter the Nightbird)
• Wildrider (Trans-Europe Express and Masquerade)

Incidentals

• Autobot X (Autobot Spike)
• Doctor Fujiyama (Enter the Nightbird)
• Produce thrower (Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1)
• Shawn Berger (Megatron's Master Plan episodes)
• Raoul (Make Tracks and Auto-Bop)
• Chac (Sea Change)
• Dinsmore (Prime Target)
• Harold Edsel (Hoist Goes Hollywood)
• Auggie Cahnay (Trans-Europe Express)
• Marty Minkler (Starscream's Brigade)
• Martin and Roland (B.O.T.)
• Custodiobot (Surprise Party)
• Golden One's pupil (Madman's Paradise)
• Zebop Skandana (Carnage in C-Minor)
• Mark Morgan (The Return of Optimus Prime episodes)

The European French dub of The Transformers was pretty casual about maintaining voice actor continuity across episodes.

Note

• François Leccia is one of the only two actors to have been involved in both the French dub of the series and that of the 1986 film, along with Georges Atlas. He was given in The Movie the role of Ultra Magnus, but he did not reprise the role for seasons 3 and 4 of the series, the dubbing team for The Movie and the one for the series seemingly having not communicated at all.

External links

• Wikipedia entry (French)
• IMDB entry
• Anime News Network entry