John Hasler

**John Hasler** (born in Barking, London, England, on 21st April 1974) is an English actor and voice actor who joined the English voice cast of *Thomas & Friends* in The Adventure Begins. He took over the roles of Thomas and Rheneas from Ben Small.

Hasler is best known for his appearance as T-Shirt in the children's TV series T-Bag. Other credits include "Gnomeo and Juliet" (animated by Arc Productions), "Toot the Tiny Tugboat", "Teenage Fairytale Dropouts", "Go Jetters", "The Legends of Treasure Island", and two of HiT Entertainment's other shows; "Mike the Knight" and "Fireman Sam".

Hasler left the series after production ended on Series 24, though he still continues to voice Thomas for the official YouTube channel shorts and other promotional material.

## Voices

### UK

* Beary Chill (*singing voice*)
* Lincoln Loud (*singing voice*)
* Thomas (T&F) (*2015-2021*)

### UK/US

* Rheneas (*The Great Race and Henry Gets the Express*)

### Online videos and additional content

* The Gingerbread Train (*Thomas and the Gingerbread Train*)
* The Owl (*Thomas and the Three Cranes*)

## Songs

### *Thomas & Friends*

* Never Overlook a Little Engine (*performed*)
* We Wish You a Merry Christmas (*performed*)
* Will You Won't You (*performed*)
* Streamlining (*performed*)
* You Can Only Be You (*performed*)
* Be Who You Are, and Go Far (*performed*)
* Somebody Has to be the Favourite (*performed*)
* Who's Thomas? (*performed*)
* The Hottest Place in Town (*performed*)
* I Want To Go Home (*performed*)
* The Most Important Thing is Being Friends (*performed*)
* Where in the World is Thomas? (*performed*)
* Wake Up (*performed*)
* We're Friends (*performed*)
* Sometimes You Make a Friend (*performed*)
* Don't Stop (*performed*)
* A Thomas Birthday Wish (*performed*)

### *The Loud House*

* Road Trippin' Blues (*performed*)
* Best Buds (*performed*)
* Our Amazing Mother (*performed*)
* We Got This (*performed*)
* Herky-Jerky World (*performed*)
* This Guy (*performed*)
* Flippee Jingle (*performed*)
* Keep Us Around (*performed*)
* Right Where We Belong (*performed*)
* Ordinary Me (*performed*)
* I'm Gonna Be the Duke (*performed*)

## Filmography

Films
* Breakout (1984)
* Brazil (1985)
* T-Bag's Christmas Carol (1989)
* T-Bag's Christmas Ding Dong (1990)
* T-Bag's Christmas Turkey (1991)
* 10 Arenas of Marwood (2011)
* Storage 24 (2012)
* Brave (2012)
* Fireman Sam: Heroes of the Storm (2014)
* Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins (2015)
* Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of The Lost Treasure (2015)
* Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (2016)
* Fireman Sam: Alien Alert (2017)
* Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017)
* Here comes the Grump (2018)
* Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! (2018)
* Fireman Sam: Set For Action! (2018)
* The Loud House Movie (2021)

Television
* Wonders in Letterland (1985)
* T-Bag Strikes Again (1986)
* T-Bag Bounces Back (1987)
* Turn on to T-Bag (1988)
* T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set (1989)
* T-Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom (1990)
* T-Bag and the Rings of Olympus (1991)
* Doctor at the Top (1991)
* T-Bag and the Sunstones of Montezuma (1992)
* Take Off with T-Bag (1992)
* Against All Odds (1994)
* Harry's Mad (1994)
* The Legends of Treasure Island (1995)
* Casualty (2000)
* Renford Rejects (2000)
* Fireman Sam (2012-present)
* Awesome Magical Tales (2013-2014)
* Toot the Tiny Tugboat (2014)
* Thomas & Friends (2015-2021)
* Go Jetters (2015-present)
* The Loud House (2016-present)

## Trivia

* He and his family attended the Blue Carpet premiere events of *Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure* on 12 July 2015, *The Great Race* on 22 May 2016 and *Big World! Big Adventures!* on 7 July 2018.
* As a child actor, Hasler co-starred in *Breakout* along with Simon Nash, who voiced Ten Cents in *TUGS*.
* Hasler is the second UK narrator to voice a character after Mark Moraghan, and the third overall after Michael Brandon and Mark Moraghan.
* Since 2018 when Thomas became the new narrator, Hasler has been the only UK cast member to date not to narrate an episode for the US dub. Due to the twenty-fourth series being the final series of *Thomas & Friends*, he and Joseph May are the final narrators for the series in the UK and US dubs, respectively.
* He and Pierce Brosnan are the only UK narrators not to be from Liverpool.

## External Links

* Official Website
* John's Twitter account
* SiF's interview