Michael Bell

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He's jealous that Keith always got to form the head.

Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American voice actor. A very prolific and popular voice actor, some of his most recognized roles include All-star from The Snorks, Duke from G.I. Joe, Lance from Voltron, Zan the Wonder Twin from Superfriends, Lex Luthor from Ruby-Spears's Superman, Drew Pickles and Chaz Finster from Rugrats, Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series and Ezekial Rage from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. He also appeared on a few Star Trek episodes.

Oh yeah, he's also a member of the Board of Directors for the Screen Actor's Guild.

Roles

The Transformers roles

• Bombshell
• Brainstorm
• Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist
• First Aid
• Gort
• Hi-Q (Powermasters commercial only)
• Junkion
• Killer Fish (Battle Beasts toy commercial only)
• Prowl
• Primon
• Rad (Action Masters commercial only)
• Scrapper
• Sideswipe
• Space-Age Jack
• Swoop

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2001
• TFcon 2007

Notes

• Bell has auditioned for several modern Transformers series, including the live-action films and Animated (where he auditioned for both Prowl and Swoop), but alas, it was not meant to be. More recently, he has auditioned for the roles of Ratchet and General (later Agent) Fowler in Transformers: Prime, but lost the roles to Jeffrey Combs and Ernie Hudson, respectively.

• Very enthusiastic about the Transformers brand and the fandom, Bell even voiced Skywarp and Scrapper in a pitch to IDW for an "All Hail Megatron" motion comic. IDW, however, did not accept the pitch and the project was canned.

• Bell was one of the eight voice actors featured in Shout! Factory's cast reunion in the 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection of the original series.

External links

• Michael Bell at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Michael Bell at Geewunner.com