Michael Bell

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He's jealous that Keith always got to form the head.

Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American voice actor. A very prolific and popular voice actor, some of his most recognized roles include All-star from The Snorks, Duke from G.I. Joe, Lance from Voltron, Zan the Wonder Twin from Superfriends, The Fear from Metal Gear Solid 3, Lex Luthor from Ruby-Spears's Superman, Drew Pickles and Chaz Finster from Rugrats, Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series and Ezekial Rage from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest. He also appeared on a few Star Trek episodes.

Oh yeah, he's also a member of the Board of Directors for the Screen Actor's Guild. He is also the godfather of actor Steve Guttenberg.

Roles

The Transformers

• Bombshell
• Brainstorm
• Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist
• First Aid
• Gort
• Hi-Q (Powermasters commercial only)
• Junkion
• Prowl
• Rad (Action Masters commercial only)
• Scrapper
• Sideswipe
• Space-Age Jack
• Swoop

All Hail Megatron motion comic

• Scrapper
• Skywarp

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2001
• TFcon 2007
• Auto Assembly 2012

Notes

• Bell has auditioned for several modern Transformers series, including the live-action films and Animated (where he auditioned for both Prowl and Swoop), but alas, it was not meant to be. Most recently, he auditioned for the roles of Ratchet and General (later Agent) Fowler in Transformers: Prime, but lost the roles to Jeffrey Combs and Ernie Hudson, respectively.
• Bell was one of the eight voice actors featured in Shout! Factory's cast reunion in the 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection of the original series.
• In a Battle Beasts toy commercial, Killer Fish appears to be played by Bell.

External links

• Michael Bell at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Michael Bell at Geewunner.com