Val Bettin

Valentine John "Val" Bettin was an American voice actor, who was known for using an English accent in all of his roles.
For Disney, he voiced David Q. Dawson and a thug guard in the 1986 Disney animated feature film The Great Mouse Detective. He also voiced The Sultan of Agrabah in The Return of Jafar (1994), Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), and the Aladdin television series (and Hamed), replacing Douglas Seale. In addition, he voiced Archimedes Q. Porter in the Tarzan video game. Various other roles are listed below.
Bettin was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1948, he went to England to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1950. There he met his wife, Hildy. They returned to the United States in order for him to become a drama teacher in Iowa.
He has acted in a variety of mediums, notably films, like Somewhere in Time, The Man Who Wasn't There, Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase, Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story, and Shrek, as well as television shows, like Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour, Webster, Great Scott!, and W.I.T.C.H.
==Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position
1986 	The Great Mouse Detective 	David Q. Dawson/Thug Guard
1987 	Young Harry Houdini 	Dr. Allworth
1994 	The Return of Jafar 	The Sultan
1994-1995	Aladdin 	The SultanHamed
1996 	Aladdin and the King of Thieves	The Sultan
1996 	Mighty Ducks 	Sarks, Episode: "Mondo-Man"
1996 	Gargoyles 	Egon Pax, Episode: "To Serve Mankind"
1997 	Pepper Ann 	Sanford I. Paper, Episode: "The Big Pencil/Sani-Paper"
1998 	Hercules 	King Tivius, Episode: "Hercules and the Jilt Trip"
==Roles==
Char 12644.jpg|David Q. Dawson (also Narrator)(The Great Mouse Detective)
Char 87351.jpg|Thug Guard(The Great Mouse Detective)
Sultan.png|The Sultan(The Return of Jafar, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, and Aladdin: The Series)
Hamed25.jpg|Hamed(Aladdin: The Series)
Archimeded Porter Video Game.jpg|Archimedes Q. Porter(Tarzan Video Game)
Tivius .jpg|Tivius(Hercules: The Series)
==Gallery==
Barrie Ingham and Val Bettil.png|Val Bettin and Barrie Ingham behind the scenes of The Great Mouse Detective.
==External links==
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