Jacques Ferrière

Jacques Ferrière (December 6, 1932 - April 9, 2005) was a French actor born in Paris, France. In addition to an illustrious career in stage and screen, he was one half of comedy duo Muller and Ferrière.

He was also a well-known voice in dubbing. He was one of the French voices of Ned Beatty and Stu Nahan. Among the many roles he voiced in animation are Scooter from Challenge of the GoBots, Professor Moriarty from Sherlock Hound, Skeletor in Masters of the Universe, Danbei Makiba in Grendizer, Pedro in The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Luigi in The Super Mario Bros Super Show!, Mr. Potato Head in the first Toy Story film and several Smurfs in the cartoon of the same name.

He died in 2005 as a result of Alzheimer's disease.

Voice roles

The Transformers

Main roles

• Grimlock
• Hound
• Kickback
• Reflector
• Rumble
• Sideswipe
• Sparkplug Witwicky
• Starscream
• Sunstreaker
• Thrust

Occasional substitutions

• Bluestreak (City of Steel, Enter the Nightbird and A Prime Problem)
• Bonecrusher (The Master Builders)
• Chip Chase (Dinobot Island, Part 2)
• Cliffjumper (A Prime Problem)
• Devastator (City of Steel and The Secret of Omega Supreme)
• Gears (Fire in the Sky)
• Grapple (Auto Berserk)
• Hook (The Master Builders)
• Jazz (More than Meets the Eye, Part 1, Fire in the Sky, A Prime Problem and The Insecticon Syndrome)
• Powerglide (A Prime Problem)
• Ratchet (More than Meets the Eye episodes and City of Steel)
• Scrapper (The Secret of Omega Supreme)
• Sludge (Dinobot Island, Part 1)
• Snarl (Dinobot Island, Part 1)
• Soundwave (A Prime Problem)
• Spike Witwicky (The Autobot Run and The Insecticon Syndrome)
• Teletraan I
• Thundercracker (Fire on the Mountain, A Plague of Insecticons, A Prime Problem and The Insecticon Syndrome)
• Tracks (Megatron's Master Plan)
• Trailbreaker (A Prime Problem)
• Wheeljack (City of Steel, A Prime Problem, The Insecticon Syndrome and Megatron's Master Plan)

Incidentals

• Joe (More than Meets the Eye)
• Jeff (War of the Dinobots)
• Giant Autobot hologram (Heavy Metal War)
• Miner (Changing Gears)
• Quantum Laboratories security guard (Day of the Machines)
• Mike (The Insecticon Syndrome)

The European French dub of The Transformers was pretty casual about maintaining voice actor continuity across episodes.

External links

• Jacques Ferrière on the French Wikipedia
• IMDb page
• Planète jeunesse page
• Allociné page