Ted Schwartz

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Ted Schwartz is an American actor. Among his better-known roles are Spider-Man on the early '80s Spider-Man cartoon and Thrasher on G.I. Joe—because he's sure as heck not known for his Transformers roles.

Voice roles

Generation 1

• Rodimus Prime
• Tailgate

Notes

Schwartz was originally cast as the voice of Rodimus Prime for the third season of the animated series, but subsequently replaced by Dick Gautier. Before his replacement, however, Schwartz recorded Rodimus's lines for several episodes (most likely all five parts of "Five Faces of Darkness"), and although Gautier re-recorded the dialogue, technical oversight led to some of Schwartz's readings making it into the finished episodes. He can be heard delivering all of Rodimus's lines in the recap for part 1 that plays at the beginning of part 2, and speaking one line during the scene on Goo in part 3.

He didn't have much more luck with Tailgate, speaking only one line as the character, in "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5". The line, however, was spoken from off screen, and the scene also featured Swerve, who had also never spoken before, so at the time, it was genuinely impossible to tell which of the two characters were speaking. It took the release of the episode's original dialogue script before it was confirmed that it was Tailgate.

External links

• Ted Schwartz at the Internet Movie Database