Wally Burr

Wally Burr is an American voice actor and director. As the voice director for the The Transformers 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.