Wally Burr

Wally Burr (born June 2, 1926) is an American voice actor and voice director. He worked on numerous cartoons during the 80s, including the role of voice director on the original Transformers cartoon and G.I. Joe. Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he has also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping. Some voices he has done include The Atom on Superfriends, Emmett Benton on Jem, Huang Zhong in Dynasty Warriors, and Rock in Soulcalibur.

Roles

Generation 1

• Dancitron Promoter
• Jazz (in "Kremzeek!")
• Kremzeek
• Museum Guard (in "Masquerade")
• Nergill
• Ratchet (in "Masquerade")
• Seaspray (in his PSA)
• Thundercracker (in "War Dawn")

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2004
• BotCon 2005

Notes

• Burr has had many stories told of him by actors, 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. 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 Townsend Coleman, "it was necessary or not." 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.

External links

• Wally Burr at the Internet Movie Database