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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 [[Hal Rayle]], "it was necessary or not." 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. | '''Wally Burr''' is an American voice actor and director. As the voice director for the Generation 1 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.{{fact}} | ||
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 [[Hal Rayle]], "it was necessary or not."{{fact}} 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.{{fact}} | |||
Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he has also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping. | Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he has also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping. | ||
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*[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (in "[[War Dawn]]") | *[[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]] (in "[[War Dawn]]") | ||
*[[Kremzeek]] | *[[Kremzeek]] | ||
==Convention appearances== | |||
*[[BotCon 2005]] | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 04:23, 17 July 2009
Wally Burr is an American voice actor and director. As the voice director for the Generation 1 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.[citation needed]
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 Hal Rayle, "it was necessary or not."[citation needed] 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.[citation needed]
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 (in "Kremzeek!")
- King Nergill
- Museum Guard (in "Masquerade")
- Ratchet (in "Masquerade")
- Seaspray (in his PSA)
- Thundercracker (in "War Dawn")
- Kremzeek
