Alfonso Ramírez

Alfonso Ramírez (born October 31st, 1946) is a Mexican voice actor who provides voices for the Latin American narration of Shopkins.

He is best known for voicing Jet Black from "Cowboy Bebop", Taurus Aldebaran and Pisces Aphrodite from "Saint Seiya", Sylvester from "The Looney Tunes Show", Optimus Primal from "Transformers: Beast Machines", Tazuna from "Naruto", and Dinobot from "Transformers: Beast Wars".

## Trivia

* He, along with Takeshi Aono, Zbigniew Konopka, and Bernd Stephan voiced Tazuna from "Naruto" in their respective languages.
	+ Christos Topoulos, Henning Nöhren, Lennardt Krüger, Christian Stark, Tobias Schmidt, Christian Rudolf, Fabian Harloff, Robert Kotulla, Konstantin Graudus, Merete Brettschneider, Tim Kreuer, Oliver Böttcher, Robert Missler, Patrick Bach, Jürgen Holdorf, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Joshy Peters, Sascha Draeger, Michael Bideller, Joey Cordevin, Volker Hanisch, Nils Rieke, Peter Weis, Rainer Schmitt, Jens Wendland, Martin May, Robin Brosch, Eberhard Haar, Angela Quast, Kai-Henrik Möller, Achim Schülke, Sonja Stein, Marion von Stengel, Jesse Grimm, Henry König, Lutz Herkenrath, Dagmar Dreke, Knud Riepen, Gerhart Hinze, Erik Schäffler, Jennifer Böttcher, Joachim Kretzer, Manuela Bäcker, Daniel Welbat, Klaus Dittmann, Martin Lohmann, Celine Fontanges, Till Huster, Ben Hecker, Matthias Klimsa, Simona Pahl, Monty Arnold, Anne Moll, Walter Wigand, Oliver Warsitz, Andreas Kleb, Benjamin Morik, Johannes Semm, Martin Brücker, Marcus Just, Achim Buch, Ivo Möller, Christian Strempler, Takuya Iwabata, Guillermo Rojas, Manuel Campuzano, Mayra Arellano, César Árias, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Salvador Reyes, Carlos Hernández, Gaby Ugarte, Diana Pérez, Timo Kinzel, Armando Coria, Chikara Osaka, Daiki Nakamura, Víctor Ugarte, Sergio Morel, Nadine Schreier, Arturo Mercado Jr., Hideo Ishikawa, Taisuke Yamamoto, Keiko Nemoto, Tomohiro Tsuboi, Paco Mauri, Leyla Rangel, Masashi Ebara, Dulce Guerrero, Hisao Egawa, Mireya Mendoza, Katharina von Keller, Humberto Vélez, Kunihiro Kawamoto, Ryūji Nakagi, Tim Grobe, Rocío Garcel, Mayumi Asano, Shigenori Sōya, Naoki Bandō, Tammo Kaulbarsch, Kenta Miyake, Nobutoshi Canna, Masayuki Omoro, Zvika Schwartzberg, Héctor Emmanuel Gómez, Kaihiamal Martínez, Cezary Kwieciński, Benjamín Rivera, Eduardo Garza, Óscar Flores, Nozomu Sasaki, Mario Castañeda, Joanna Pach-Żbikowska, Bin Shimada, Dafnis Fernández, Herman López, Moisés Iván Mora, Irwin Daayán, Gerardo Reyero, Anna Apostolakis, Javier Olguín, Janusz Wituch, Leszek Zduń, Sōichirō Hoshi, Paweł Szczesny, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Hiroaki Hirata and Noriko Shitaya also worked on "Naruto".
* He voiced William Hope's character Ambassador Standish from "Sherlock Holmes". Several other people have worked on other Sherlock Holmes films:
	+ Rob Rackstraw and Christopher Ragland ("Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter")
	+ Kai-Henrik Möller (the 2002 version of "The Hounds of Baskerville")
	+ Kerry Shale ("The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes")
	+ Mike Grady ("Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows")
* Both he and Masashi Ebara voiced Sylvester from "The Looney Tunes Show" in their respective languages.
	+ Agnieszka Kunikowska, Prokhor Chekhovskoy, Guilherme Briggs, Naoki Tatsuta, Grzegorz Kwiecień, Stefan Knothe, Jim Cummings, Kari Tamminen, César Soto, Luise Lunow, Tesshō Genda, Irwin Daayán, Saar Badishi, Przemysław Stippa, Zvika Fohrman, Daisuke Gōri, Hadar Shachaf Ma'ayan, Ernesto Lezama, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Cezary Kwieciński and Simcha Barbiro have also worked on "Looney Tunes".
* He, Gerardo Alonso, Chisato Nakajima, Marcos Patiño, Ryōichi Tanaka, Ulisses Bezerra, Masato Hirano, Miguel Ángel Ruiz, Igor Cruz, Ricardo Mendoza and Ryō Horikawa have all worked on "Saint Seiya".
* He, Marcos Patiño, Jorge Teixeira, Ryūji Nakagi and Enrique Cervantes have all worked on "Cowboy Bebop".
* He, Gerald Schaale, Eberhard Haar, Armando Réndiz, Ruth Toscano, Dário de Castro and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Scott McNeil, Ian James Corlett and Paul Dobson have all worked on "Transformers: Beast Machines".
* He and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Scott McNeil and Ian James Corlett voiced Dinobot from "Transformers: Beast Wars" in their respective languages.
	+ Olga Hnidey, Walter Wiegand, Eberhard Haar, Robert Missler and Salty's Lighthouse voice actress Venus Terzo have also worked on "Transformers: Beast Wars". Several other people have worked on other versions in the "Transformers" franchise:
		- Bartosz Martyna, Arto Nieminen, Ángel Amorós, Alfredo Martínez, Salvador Serrano, Paweł Szczesny, Salvador Reyes, Zbigniew Konopka, Anna Gajewska, Grzegorz Kwiecień, César Díaz Capilla, Jakub Szydłowski, Moisés Iván Mora, Talya Barkay, Yehonatan Magon, Susa Saukko, Józef Pawłowski, Mario Filio, Piotr Bąk, Dor Srugo, Tetsu Inada and Christian Strempler ("Transformers: Prime")
		- Hisao Egawa, Nir Ron, Ángel Amorós, Salvador Serrano, Krystyna Kozanecka, Grzegorz Drojewski, Robert Kotulla, Konstantin Graudus, Lennardt Krüger, Juan Navarro Torelló, Takaya Kuroda, Achim Schülke, Sascha Draeger, Jan Kulczycki, Janusz Wituch, Houko Kuwashima, Anna Apostolakis, Cezary Kwieciński, Hiroaki Hirata, Dariusz Odija, Houko Kuwashima, Eberhard Haar and Salty's Lighthouse voice actor Terry Klassen ("Transformers: Cybertron")
		- Hisao Egawa, Rex Fang and José Luis Orozco ("the films")
		- Nir Ron, Hiroaki Hirata and Isamu Yusen ("Robots in Disguise")
		- Krystyna Kozanecka, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Kaihiamal Martínez, Mieczysław Morański, Cezary Kwieciński, Simone Crisari, Nobutoshi Canna and Jarosław Boberek ("Transformers: Energon")
		- Kiyoyuki Yanada, Samuel Harjanne, Simone Crisari and Jarosław Boberek ("Transformers: Armada")
		- Shinobu Satouchi ("Tranformers: Victory")
		- Yūki Satō ("Transformers: Headmasters")
		- Silas Borges, Kenta Miyake, Daiki Nakamura, Hideo Ishikawa, Ryōichi Tanaka and Ulisses Bezerra ("the animated series")
		- Masashi Ebara ("Tranformers G1")
		- Mia Kadosh and Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. ("Transformers: Rescue Bots")
		- Kunihiro Kawamoto ("Tranformers: Robot Masters")
		- Hiroko Emori ("Transformers: Super-God Masterforce")