Jim Cummings
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Jim Cummings (born November 3, 1952) is an American voice actor. One of the most popular and seasoned voice actors in the country, Jim Cummings might be best recognized for roles such as Leatherhead and The Shredder (whenever James Avery was unavailable) on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Taz from Taz-Mania, Monterey Jack and Fat Cat on Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck and Negaduck from Darkwing Duck, Pete in Goof Troop and the Kingdom Hearts games, The Morocco Mole in Super Secret Secret Squrrel, MODOK in Iron Man, Cat from Catdog, Ackar in Bionicle: The Legend Reborn, Thor in the game Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Thanos in The Super Hero Squad Show Season 2 and everyone's favorite, Winnie the Pooh (and Tigger too!).
He even took over as the singing voice of Scar for the musical number "Be Prepared" in The Lion King when Jeremy Irons developed vocal problems during recording. Not only that he replaced Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin's singing voice in Anatasia. He's so damn good that the Nostalgia Critic made mistook his signing voice for the other voice actors twice in the same review. Wow.
Roles
Generation 1
Notes
- Cummings actually replaced Peter Cullen as the voice of Monterey Jack on Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers, and acted alongside Corey Burton for the rest of the series' run. Cullen and Cummings currently collaborate on Winnie the Pooh.
- Sometimes Cummings sings karaoke with Peter Cullen in their Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore voices.
- In the 1990s, Cummings was the offical voice of former President of the United States Bill Clinton in two animated Marvel cartoons, Iron Man and Fantastic Four. Both of them were part of a action block called The Marvel Action Hour.
- No, he is not related to announcer Brian Cummings.
- He wants you to come to Taz-Mania.
