The Transformers: The Movie/credits

The Transformers Cartoon cast Cartoon credits Film Film credits

Opening Credits

DEG De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (title card)

Sunbow Productions, Marvel Productions (title card)

The Transformers The Movie

Starring

• Eric Idle as Wreck-Gar
• Judd Nelson as Hot Rod
• Leonard Nimoy as Galvatron
• Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus
• Lionel Stander as Kup
• Orson Welles as Unicron
• Co-starring John Moschitta as Blurr

Casting by Reuben Cannon & Associates, Carol Dudley

Music Score by Vince DiCola

Story Consultant Flint Dille

Written by Ron Friedman

Executive Producers Margaret Loesch, Lee Gunther

Supervising Producer Jay Bacal

Produced by Joe Bacal, Tom Griffin

Co-Produced and Directed by Nelson Shin

End Credits

Cast (in alphabetical order)

• Kranix - Norman Alden
• Astrotrain - Jack Angel
• Prowl, Scrapper, Swoop, Junkion - Michael Bell
• Grimlock - Gregg Berger
• Arcee - Susan Blu
• Devastator - Arthur Burghardt
• Spike, Brawn, Shockwave - Corey Burton
• Cyclonus, Quintesson Leader - Roger C. Carmel
• Narrator - Victor Caroli
• Quintesson Judge - Rege Cordic
• Optimus Prime, Ironhide - Peter Cullen
• Jazz - Scatman Crothers
• Dirge - Bud Davis
• Inferno - Walker Edmiston
• Perceptor - Paul Eiding
• Blitzwing - Ed Gilbert
• Bumblebee - Dan Gilvezan
• Wreck-Gar - Eric Idle
• Blaster - Buster Jones
• Scourge - Stan Jones
• Cliffjumper - Casey Kasem
• Starscream - Chris Latta
• Daniel - David Mendenhall
• Gears - Don Messick
• Blurr - John Moschitta
• Hot Rod, Rodimus Prime - Judd Nelson
• Galvatron - Leonard Nimoy
• Shrapnel - Hal Rayle
• Kickback - Clive Revill
• Bonecrusher, Hook, Springer, Slag - Neil Ross
• Ultra Magnus - Robert Stack
• Kup - Lionel Stander
• Unicron - Orson Welles
• Megatron, Soundwave, Rumble , Frenzy, Ravage, Wheelie, Junkion - Frank Welker

• Voice Recording and Processing by Wally Burr Recording
• Voice Director - Wally Burr
• Sound Processing - Scott Brownlee
• Additional Sound Processing - Craig Harris
• ADR- B&B Sound Studios, Inc.
• Engineers - Ken Berger, Dave Van Meter
• Talent Coordinator - Maddy Aaronson

Music

• Music Supervised by Soundtracs
• Music Score by Vince DiCola
• Score Arranged and Produced by Vince DiCola and Ed Frugé
• Technical Advisor Charles Calello
• Music Editor Ed Frugé
• Music Score Engineered by Tony Papa
• Synthesizer Programming Casey Young
• Soundtrack Album on Scotti Brothers Records and Tapes
• Distributed by CBS Records

"Instruments of Destruction"

• Performed by NRG
• Written by Ernest Petrangelo, Robin Ward and Steven Serpa
• Produced by NRG

"Dare"

• Performed by Stan Bush
• Written by Vince DiCola and Scott Shelly
• Produced by Vince DiCola and Richie Wise

"The Touch"

• Performed by Stan Bush
• Written by Stan Bush and Lenny Macaluso
• Produced by Richie Wist

"Nothin's Gonna Stand in Our Way"

• Performed by Spectre General
• Written by Randy Bishop
• Produced by Randy Bishop with Spencer Proffer for Pasha
• Courtesy of Pasha/CBS Records

"Hunger"

• Performed by Spectre General
• Written by Larry Gillstron, Brian Gillstron, Victor Langen, George Christon, Ray Harvey and Spencer Proffer
• Produced by Spencer Proffer for Pasha
• Courtesy of Pasha/CBS Records

"Dare to Be Stupid"

• Performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Written by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Produced by Rick Derringer

"The Transformers" (Theme)

• Performed by Lion
• Written by Ford Kinder, Anne Bryant, Norman Swan and Douglas Aldrich
• Produced by Richie Wise

Production Staff

• Executive in Charge of Production - Jim Graziano
• Senior Manager of Production - Carole Weitzman
• Production Managers - Gerald L. Moeller, Koh Meguro, Satoru Nakamura, Takuya Igarashi
• Executive Production Coordinator - Gene Pelc
• Production Coordinators - Elise Goyette, Terri Gruskin, Hildy Mesnik
• Producer's Representative - Gene Margoluis
• Production Staff - Mark Bakshi, Paul Davids, Yung Shin
• Original Concept Design - Floro Dery
• Character and Background Design - Gabriel Hoyos, Fred Carrillo, Rico Rival, Delfin Barras, Romeo Tanghal, Lew Ott, Romeo Francisco, Pat Agnasin, Ernie Guanlao, Eufronio R. Cruz, Mike Sekowsky
• Storyboard Artists - Peter Chung, Joo In Kim, Jeong-hwan Oh, Siok Park, Sang Il Sim, David Shin, Su-yong Jeong, Delfin Barras, James Gomez, Ernie Guanlao, Doug Lefler, Rico Rival, Romeo Tanghal
• Supervising Animation Director - Kozo Morishita
• Animation Directors - John Patrick Freeman, Norm McCabe, Gerald L. Moeller, Bob Matz, Margaret Nichols
• Assistant Animation Directors - Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Masao Ito, Baik Seung Kyun
• Associate Story Consultants - Doug Booth, Roger Slifer
• Production Secretaries - Joyce Masterson, Joan Davis, Debbie Lehrhoff
• Translators - Mitsuko Y. Hays, Emi Araki
• Account Supervisor - Alfa Tate
• Publicists - Ellen Kroner, Deborah J. Green
• Supervising Film Editor - Steven C. Brown
• Assistant Supervisor Post Production - Larry Whelan
• Film Editor - David Hankins
• Supervising Music Editor - Mark Shiney
• Music Editors - Peter Collier, Robert Randles, S.M.E., Bob Mayer
• Supervising Sound Effects Editor - Brian Courcier
• Sound Editors - Jim Blodgett, Allison Cobb, Michael L. DePatie, John Detra, Karen Doulac, Ron Fedele, Lenny Geschke, Nicholas James, Warren Taylor, Michael Tomack, Peter Tomaszewicz, John Singleton, Ted Chapman
• Dialogue Editor - Jerry Jacobson
• Assistant Editors - Ivan Bilancio, Heather Elliott, Tamra Fitzgerald, Shinichi Fukumitsu, Shinji Shimizu, Sue Vonsi, Dave Weathers
• Re-Recording by - Todd-AO/Glen Glenn Studios
• Re-Recording Mixers - R. William A. Thiederman, W. Howard Wilmarth, Peter S. Reale
• Re-Recording Recordist - David Koelher
• Machine Room Operator - Sam Kaufman
• Pre-Dubb Mixers - Bob Harman, Jim Cook
• Dubbing Supervisor - Jacquie Freeman
• Negative Cutting - Jack Hooper
• Opticals - F-Stop
• Main Title Design - Bill Millar, Deena Burkett

Animated by - Toei Animation Co., Ltd.

• Associate Producers - Masaharu Etoh, Tomoh Fukumoto
• Final Checker (Chief Animator) - Koichi Tsunoda
• Assistant Animation Checkers - Takashi Hyodo, Masahiko Okura, Kazuo Hayashi, Kazuhiro Ochi, Akihiro Enomoto, Toshikazu Usami
• Key Animators - Nobuyoshi Sasakado, Shigemitsu Fujitaka, Koichi Fukuda, Yoshitaka Koyama, Yoshinori Kanemori, Yoshinobu Inano, Baik Nam Yeoul, Kiyomitsu Tsuji, Masanori Shino, Toshio Mori, Shigenobu Nagasaki, Yasuyoshi Uwai, Shigeo Matoba, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Yoichi Mitsu, Shigeru Murakami, Yoshito Miki, Takahiro Kagami
• Inbetween Animation Checkers - Akira Sato, Hitoshi Abe, Ryokichi Yoshizawa
• Inbetween Animators - Kiyomi Sugita, Ryuji Ajiri, Hiroaki Daichi, Shizuo Tanaka, Tadashi Yahata, Takako Nakamura, Kei Okazaki, Akira Sugiura, Yoshiharu Azuma, Jun Watanabe, Tomoe Morimoto, Takao Sakano, Mario Ishiyama, Tomoko Fukui, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazuya Komai, Takehiro Iima, Miyo Yamada, Teruo Hattori, Kazunori Nakazawa
• Special Effects - Masayuki Kawachi, Shoji Sato
• Background Art Direction - Robert Schaefer, Takao Sawada, Dario Campanile
• Assistant Background Designer - Tadaumi Shimokawa
• Background Painters - Kazuo Ebisawa, Toshikatsu Sanuki
• Background Department Manager - Ryuichi Sugimoto
• Chief Cameraman - Masatoshi Fukui
• Animation Cameramen - Masaru Sakanishi, Yukio Katayama
  • Model Color Key - Phyllis Craig
• Ink and Paint Supervisors - Mary Ann Steward, Kuniko Murata, Junko Furuta
• Ink and Paint Department Managers - Masatoyo Ogura, Hiroshi Kosakai
• Inkers - Mihoko Irie, Reiko Igarashi
• Painters - Myrna Gibbs, Marta Skwara, Robin Draper, Britt Van der Nagel, Britt Greko, Kris Brown, Harriette Rossall, Heidi Shellhorn, Liane Douglas, Hannah Powell, Debbie Jorgensborg
• Color Checkers - Kazuo Kinugasa, Hiroshi Morita
• Xerox - Virginia Creamer, Bill Hudson, Sandy Kennedy
• Script Continuity - Yoko Okamoto
• Shipping Coordinator - Kevin Shaw

Technical Advisors

• Bob Prupis
• Steve Schwartz
• Walt Barric
• Michael Brochstein
• Chris Brown
• Al Carosi
• John Costello
• Bob Darcy
• Paul Denault
• George Dunsay
• Eric Early
• Jim Engle
• Chuck Fisher
• Bill Ford
• Carl Fritz
• Sid Good
• Norman Hajjar
• Deborah Heineman
• Art Heller
• Bob Horne
• Heide Kahme
• Pat Kiley
• Paul Kurnit
• Dave LeBlanc
• Matt Lizak
• Richard Marcej
• Kevin Massey
• Bob Mitchell
• Melissa Mitten
• Susan Marie Panettieri
• Andy Perlmutter
• Susanne Pollak
• Steven Raskin
• Jack Raiter
• Steve Reiss
• Jeff Reynolds
• Mike Riley
• Brent Robertson
• Steve Rodyn
• Julie Rud
• Rob Rundbaken
• Bill Schmidt
• Rosemary Serluca
• Alison Shinners
• Howard Steinberg
• Ed Torton
• Hildy Travis
• Norm Young

A SUNBOW and MARVEL Production

Dolby Stereo In Selected Theaters

Dolby Consultants - Jim Fitzpatrick

Prints by Technicolor

Notes

• In the UK releases, the opening credits are omitted, replaced by a text crawl to recap the backstory for the movie.
• While Walker Edmiston was credited as Inferno and Don Messick was credited as Gears, neither appeared in the final film.
• Though not credited in the film's credits, Masumi Kaneda was a supervisor for the film.
• Some individuals names in the credits were misspelled or had typos in them:
  • Joo In Kim was credited as Jooin Kim.
  • Jeong-hwan Oh was listed as Chung Hwan Oh.
  • Siok Park was misspelled as Sioak Park.
  • Sang Il Sim was credited as Sangil Shim.
  • Su-yong Jeong was misspelled credited as Soo Young Chung.
  • Fred Carrillo last name was listed as Carillo.
  • Allison Cobb's first name was listed as Alison.