Jack Angel

Jack Angel (October 24, 1930 – October 18, 2021) was an American voice actor, comedian, and radio personality. He provided voice-overs for animation and video games. Angel had voiced characters in shows by Hasbro and Hanna-Barbera such as Super Friends, The Transformers and G.I. Joe and was involved in numerous productions by Disney and Pixar. Before becoming involved with voiceover work, Angel was initially a disc jockey for radio stations, namely KMPC and KFI. The day of his death, October 18, a piece of lost 1980s paraphernalia that contained his voice as the lead role, being the U.S. dub of TUGS, was discovered.
== Biography ==
Angel was born on October 24, 1930 in Modesto, California, the second child of John Angel, a Greek immigrant, and Lucille (née Parsons).
Angel's first jobs in the voice-over industry came in the mid-1970s, voice acting on the series Super Friends, in which he played Hawkman, The Flash and Samurai, including  The All-New Super Friends Hour,  Challenge of the Super Friends,  Super Friends,  The Legendary Super Powers Show and Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians. During that time, he made guest appearances in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and The Smurfs.
In the second season of the Transformers series (1985), Angel was the voice of Astrotrain, Smokescreen, Ramjet, and Omega Supreme, and he reprised the roles of Ramjet and Astrotrain in The Transformers: The Movie (1986). In the third and fourth seasons of The Transformers (1986-1987), Angel voiced Ultra Magnus (who had been played by Robert Stack in The Transformers: The Movie) and in the fourth season he voiced Cyclonus following the death of Roger C. Carmel.
He also lent his voice to the character Dr. Zachary Darret in the 1984 CBS animated series Pole Position, and also voiced Wet Suit on Sunbow's G.I. Joe and several characters on Dino-Riders.
In 1995, he was the voice of Nikki in the animated film Balto. He played the SWATbots on Sonic the Hedgehog, The Liquidator on Darkwing Duck, and Nick Fury on Spider-Man: The Animated series.
In 2001, Angel was the voice of "Teddy" in the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence. He provided voices for animated films such as A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Ice Age: The Meltdown, Cars, Horton Hears a Who, The Prince of Egypt, The Iron Giant, and Aladdin.
Angel has also ventured into video games, narrating the cult hit Killer7 as well as playing Wonkers the Watilla in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, The Mayor in Ratchet & Clank, and Ammand the Corsair in the video game version of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
In 2002, shortly after the death of Gene Moss, Jack Angel voiced Smokey the Bear in a few public service announcements and radio spots until 2012.
=== Nickelodeon ===
Angel did some voice work in Animated shows for Nickelodeon in the 2000s. His roles include: 
* Superintendent Chaplin in Hey Arnold!.
* MacTavish in the second part of the episode "Sir Nigel" in The Wild Thornberrys
* The Pirate Captain on the episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender titled "The Waterbending Scroll".
* The Weathered One on an episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot titled "Weapons of Mass Distraction".
* Comrade Chaos on El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera in the episode "Old Money".
He provided "additional voices" in Toy Story and Toy Story 2, and the voice of Chunk in Toy Story 3.
He also provided additional voices for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The Dukes, Snorks, Dino-Riders, The Smurfs, The Rescuers Down Under, The Little Mermaid, DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Land of Enchantment, Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire, Aladdin, Hercules, Quest for Camelot, Tarzan, The Iron Giant, Monsters, Inc., The Lorax, Monsters University and Despicable Me 2.
His uncredited voice roles include Rock in the 2014 American biblical epic film Noah and an Egyptian in the 1998 animated film The Prince of Egypt.
== Personal life ==
Angel was married twice. He and his first wife, Barbara Angel, divorced in 1980.
Angel died on October 18, 2021, at the age of 90, six days before his 91st birthday.
=== Animated films ===
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=== Animated series ===
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* Mork & Mindy: The Animated Series - Additional voices
* The Dukes — Additional voices
* Snorks — Additional voices
* Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs — Additional voices (English dub)
* Denver, the Last Dinosaur — Prof. Chin
* Dino-Riders — Additional voices
* Blondie and Dagwood — Mr. Beasley and Herb Woodley
* Kid 'n Play – Additional voices
* The Wizard of Oz – Additional voices
* Space Cats — Additional voices
* Where's Waldo? – Additional voices
* ProStars – Additional voices
* The Legend of Prince Valiant — Additional voices
* Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire - Additional voices
* The New Adventures of Captain Planet — Additional voices
* The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor — Additional voices
* All-New Dennis the Menace — Additional voices
* Sonic Underground — Gondar
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=== Live action films — Voice ===
* Deal of the Century — Announcer
* Funny Lady — Radio Announcer
* The World's Greatest Lover — Voice on Record
* Trenchcoat — Head Kidnapper
* Joey (film) — Fletcher the Dummy
* Beetlejuice — Voice of The Preacher
* Hook — Pirates (ADR)
* Mom and Dad Save the World — Creature Voice (uncredited)[citation needed]
* Ticks — (ADR)
* The Fifth Element — Alien Commander
* Vendetta — Old Gaspare (ADR)
* A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Teddy
* Looney Tunes: Back in Action — The Crusher
* This is the End — Looping Voice Talent (uncredited)
* Noah — Rock (ADR) (uncredited)[citation needed]
=== Live action ===
* The Young and the Restless — Judge Martin J. Kline
* King B: A Life in Movies — Jack Cole
* Deterrence — Secretary of Defence
* Crime and Punishment in Suburbia — Russ
* Scrubs - PA System Announcer
* Crime Story - Series Narrator
=== Other ===
* The Legend of Paul Bunyan (short) — Narrator
* The Six Million Dollar Man — Voice of Tower Operator
* Metric Meets the Inchworm (short) –
* CBS Library — Mister Spitznagle ("The Incredible Book Escape")
* The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — Promo Announcer
* Silver Spoons — Chess Player
* Amazing Stories — Dog School Security Guard ("The Family Dog")
* Harry and the Hendersons — TV Wrestler
* I Am My Resume (short) — Stan Angeles
* Crime Story — Narrator
* Scrubs — PA System Announcer ("My Waste of Time")
* Brad and Gary (short) — Gary
* The Don of the Flies (short) — Narrator, Stooley, Harry and Moon (He also produced the short)
* The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol — Papa Smurf
* The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow — Papa Smurf
* Recruited (short) — Principal
* TUGS — Captain Starr, only in test US dub
=== Commercials ===
* United States Forest Service — Smokey the Bear (2002—2012)
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