Michael Bell
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Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American voice actor and occasional screen actor. Over the course of his prolific voice acting career, some of his most recognized roles include All-Star from The Snorks, Duke from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Duke's father from G.I. Joe: Renegades, 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, and Ezekial Rage from The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.
In terms of screen acting, Bell has appeared as different characters in three different Star Trek series, including the original series, The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Screen Actor's Guild and is the godfather of actor Steve Guttenberg (fer real).
Roles
The Transformers
- Big Daddy (Micromasters commercial only)
- Bombshell
- Brainstorm
- Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist
- First Aid
- Gort
- Hi-Q (Powermasters commercial only)
- Junkion
- Killer Carp (Battle Beasts commercial only)
- Prowl
- Primon
- Rad (Action Masters commercial only)
- Scrapper
- Sideswipe
- Space-Age Jack
- Swoop
All Hail Megatron motion comic
Convention appearances
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.
