Georges Atlas
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Georges Atlas (August 14, 1926 - February 26, 1996) was a French actor and voice actor. He was incredibly prolific during his career, particularly with voice acting and dubbing, where he worked on European originals (such as the Tintin and the Astérix franchises).
He was the regular French voice of Lee Van Cleef, Will Sampson and Ernest Borgnine, but also Boba Fett in The Star Wars Holiday Special and The Empire Strikes Back.
In animation, his roles included the French voices of Crag in Captain Future, the narrator in Dragon Ball and Ganon in the animated The Legend of Zelda series.
Voice roles
The Transformers
Main roles
- Air Raid
- Beachcomber
- Blast Off
- Blaster
- Bluestreak
- Bombshell
- Bonecrusher
- Bruticus
- Cosmos
- Cutthroat
- Dirge
- Fastlane
- Firebolt
- Fireflight
- Hot Spot
- Hun-Gurrr
- Kup
- Mindwipe
- Misfire
- Motormaster
- Pounce
- Powerglide
- Various Quintessons
- Ramjet
- Ratchet
- Recoil
- Sandstorm
- Scorponok
- Scrapper
- Shockwave
- Skullcruncher
- Skywarp
- Slag
- Sludge
- Smokescreen
- Spasma
- Swindle
- Swoop
- Thundercracker
- Tracks
- Triggerhappy
- Wildrider
- Windcharger
Occasional substitutions
- Alpha Trion (The Rebirth, Parts 2 & 3)
- Apeface (The Rebirth, Part 2)
- Astrotrain (Triple Takeover)
- Brawn (Microbots)
- Cliffjumper (The Autobot Run and Starscream's Brigade)
- Dead End (Cosmic Rust)
- Devastator (The Core and The Master Builders)
- Gears (B.O.T.)
- Goldbug (The Rebirth, Part 1)
- Grapple (The Master Builders)
- Grimlock (Desertion of the Dinobots episodes and The Movie)
- Hardhead (The Rebirth, Part 2)
- Hoist (Kremzeek!)
- Hook (Microbots, Make Tracks and The Secret of Omega Supreme)
- Hot Rod (The Rebirth, Part 3)
- Hound (Roll for It and Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1)
- Huffer (Dinobot Island episodes, Make Tracks and Quest for Survival)
- Inferno (The Revenge of Bruticus and Masquerade)
- Menasor (Cosmic Rust)
- Mirage (Roll for It and The Core)
- Omega Supreme (The God Gambit)
- Prowl (The Revenge of Bruticus)
- Red Alert (Dinobot Island, Part 2 and Auto Berserk)
- Scavenger (The Master Builders)
- Slingshot (Aerial Assault)
- Soundwave (The Girl Who Loved Powerglide, Hoist Goes Hollywood, The Key to Vector Sigma episodes, Cosmic Rust and The Return of Optimus Prime)
- Sparkplug Witwicky (Kremzeek!)
- Springer (Dark Awakening)
- Starscream (A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court, The God Gambit, Cosmic Rust and Starscream's Ghost)
- Sunstreaker (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
- Teletraan I (Day of the Machines, The Master Builders, Make Tracks, Cosmic Rust and B.O.T.)
- Thrust (The God Gambit, Quest for Survival, Kremzeek! and Triple Takeover)
- Vortex (Starscream's Brigade and The Revenge of Bruticus)
- Wheeljack (The Core and The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1)
Incidentals
- Dr. Alcazar (Roll for It)
- TORQ III (Day of the Machines)
- Sentinels (Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 2)
- Professor Haley (Blaster Blues)
- Sir Wulf (A Decepticon Raider in King Arthur's Court)
- Deceptitran (Sea Change)
- Tlaloc (Sea Change)
- Lord Chumley (Prime Target)
- Professor Teranova (Trans-Europe Express)
- El Presidente (B.O.T.)
- Allicon guard (The Killing Jar)
The European French dub of The Transformers was pretty casual about maintaining voice actor continuity across episodes.
Notes
- Georges Atlas is the only actor to have been involved in both the French dub of the series and that of the 1986 film. He was given in The Movie the role of Grimlock, a character he previously dubbed only once in the "Desertion of the Dinobots" episodes, but it was probably a coincidence since it seems the dubbing team for The Movie was not aware of the work done on the dub of the series.
