Arthur Burghardt
Arthur Napier Burghardt (born 1947) is an American Stage and On Camera actor artist. Among the many starring roles for which he is best known among fans of cartoon animation is playing Destro and Stalker on G.I. Joe, and Turbo on Challenge of the GoBots. He also played Dr. Jack Scott on One Life to Live, Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man, Principal Pussman in "Bone Chillers" and mentor-to-superheroic-Mexican-wrestlers Laurant on Los Luchadores. He also has an EMMY for "OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR" in 1976 for a televised summary of his one-man stage performance about FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Arthur Burghardt began his professional career at 20 years old as a stage performer having appeared and starred in fifty plays ON-, OFF-, OFF OFF-BROADWAY in repertory companies in Canada and the United States, playing many roles in the classical American and English repertoire of plays. He appeared in his first play at 9 years old. He is an educated American artist of varied skills from very old American families who profoundly values his privacy; however, while he continues to perform and write has also become a producer of film and television and sometimes meets with his fans to discuss his roles and the evocation and creation of character in performance.
Voice roles
Generation 1
Notes
- Burghardt was name-dropped on the Seinfeld episode "The Pothole", in which Kramer adopts a stretch of the "Arthur Burghardt Expressway".
