John Stephenson

## Character(s)

**John Winfield Stephenson** (born August 9, 1923; died May 15, 2015) was an actor who voiced Professor X on *Pryde of the X-Men*.

## Biography

Stephenson was from Kenosha, Wisconsin. After serving in the United States Army Air Forces, as a gunner and radio operator, during World War II, John Stephenson took a course in speech and drama at Northwestern University and graduated with a theater degree before moving to Hollywood.

Stephenson is primarily known for his work with Hanna-Barbera voicing characters in *Top Cat*, *Touché Turtle and Dum Dum*, *Jonny Quest*, *The Atom-Ant Show*, *The Magilla Gorilla Show*, *Breezly and Sneezly*, *The Peter Potamus Show*, *The Flintstones*, *The Man Called Flintstone*, *Squiddly Diddly*, *The Secret Squirrel Show*, *Frankenstein, Jr. and the Impossibles*, *The Abbott and Costello Cartoon Show*, *Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor*, *Birdman*, *Young Samson & Goliath*, *Wacky Races*, *Arabian Knights*, *The Adventures of Gulliver*, *Where's Huddles?*, *Josie and the Pussycats*, *Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!*, *The Banana Splits Adventure Hour*, *Harlem Globe Trotters*, *Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!*, *The Funky Phantom*, *The Flintstone Comedy Hour*, *The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't*, *Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space*, *Sealab 2020*, *A Christmas Story*, *Goober and the Ghost Chasers*, *The New Scooby-Doo Movies*, *Wait Till Your Father Gets Home*, *Inch High, Private High*, *Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids*, *Super Friends*, *Jeannie*, *Speed Buggy*, *The Addams Family*, *These Are the Days*, *Devlin*, *Partridge Family 2200 A.D.*, *The New Tom & Jerry Show*, *The Great Great Ape Show*, *Clue Club*, *The Mumbly Cartoon Show*, *Davy Crockett on the Mississippi*, *Jabberjaw*, *Dynomutt Dog Wonder*, *Scooby's Laff-A Lympics*, *Fred Flintstone and Friends*, *Undercover Elephant*, *C B Bears*, *A Flintstone Christmas*, *Blast-Off Buzzard*, *Heyyy, It's the King, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Flintstone Little Big League, Yogi's Space Race, Galaxy Goof-Ups, Fantastic Four, The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour*, *The Scooby-Doo Show*, *Dinky Dog*, *The New Fred and Barney Show*, *The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone*, *Casper's Halloween Special*, *Gulliver's Travels*, *Fred and Barney Meet the Thing*, *The Super Globe Trotters*, *Casper and the Angels*, *Casper's First Christmas*, *Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels*, *The Flintstones' New Neighbors*, *The Harlem Globe Trotters Meet Snow White*, *The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling*, *The Flintstone Comedy Show*, *Yogi's First Christmas*, *The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma*, *The Flintstone: Jogging Fever*, *The Ri¢hie Ri¢h/Scooby-Doo Show*, *Space Stars*, *Trollkins*, *The Kwicky Koala Show*, *Laverne & Shirley with Special Guest Star the Fonz*, *The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour*, *Shirt Tales*, *Yogi Bear's All-Star Christmas Caper*, *The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show*, *The Dukes*, *Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo*, *The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries*, *The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo*, *The Flintstone Kids*, *The Smurfs*, and *The Jetsons*.

For Marvel Productions he voiced characters on the shows *Spider-Man* (1981), *The Incredible Hulk* (1982), and *Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends*, and *The Transformers*.

Stephenson died of Alzheimer's disease, aged 91 on May 15, 2015. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, their two children (a son and a daughter) and a granddaughter.

## External Links

* Internet Movie Database
* Wikipedia
* Behind the Voice Actors
* Disney Wiki
* The Lord of the Rings Wiki
* Transformers Wiki
* The Flintstones Wiki
* Scooby-Doo Wiki
* Smurfs Wiki
* Hanna-Barbera Wiki
* Tom & Jerry Wiki