Townsend Coleman

"I am that jerk!"

Townsend Coleman (born May 28, 1954) is an American voice actor. Coleman has done voices for many, many cartoons, but is best known for his roles of the title character in The Tick animated series, [[[Michelangelo (TMNT)|Michaelangelo]] in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series (both shows coincidentally also voice directed by Susan Blu), and his personal favorite voice role: Jason Whitaker in the radio series Adventures in Odyssey. He has also voiced Capeman in Inspector Gadget, Gobo in the animated version of Fraggle Rock, Neddy the Mallet in Mighty Magiswords, and many other roles in numerous other shows.

He was one of the commercial announcers for Hub Network, and for years was the voice of NBC's Must See TV and the promoter for The Tonight Show.

SPOOOOONN!

Voice roles

The Transformers

• Martin
• Rewind

Transformers Animated

• Sentinel Prime
• News Bot ("The Return of the Headmaster")
• Tracks

Incidentals

• PA voice ("Autoboot Camp")

Notes

• At the Cartoon Network panel at BotCon 2008, it was revealed that much of Sentinel Prime's character design evolved after Townsend Coleman was cast for the role, specifically the visual cues to Coleman's earlier role as the Tick.
• Coleman is credited with voicing News Bot in "The Elite Guard", but the character does not actually appear in that episode.
• Coleman was the announcer for "Huboom!," the segment on Hub Network home to reruns of the original Transformers cartoon.

External links

• Townsend Coleman on the Internet Movie Database