David Kaye (voice actor)
David Kaye is a Canadian voice actor. He is best known for animation roles such as Megatron in five of the "Transformers" series ("", "", "", "", and ""), Optimus Prime in "", Professor X and Apocalypse in "", Cronus in "Class of the Titans", Khyber and Shocksquatch in "", several characters in "Avengers Assemble", the newsreel announcer in the Pixar film "Up", and Duckworth in the reboot of "Ducktales". He is also known for anime roles including Sesshomaru in "Inuyasha" and Treize Khushrenada in "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing", and video game roles such as Clank in the "Ratchet & Clank" series and Nathan Hale  in the "Resistance" series. He is also the announcer for "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on HBO and voiced the Celestial Arishem in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film "Eternals". Early life. During the 1980s, Kaye moved to Vancouver to work in radio. He also did theater, playing George in a production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and Elwood P. Dowd in a production of "Harvey". Career. Kaye's voice acting career began in 1989 with General Hawk in the DiC animated series "". Working as an on-air talent for radio station CKLG (LG73), he quickly became less  interested as both on-camera and voice roles started taking up more of his time. On-camera opportunities came in the form of guest roles on TV series and movies such as "The X-Files", "Battlestar Galactica", and "Happy Gilmore". During this time, he was cast in several animation shows and video games, including a role as Megatron in "". This began a decades-long relationship with the "Transformers" franchise. In 2007, Kaye become the first and (as of 2021) only actor in the franchise to play both Megatron and Optimus Prime in regular roles, voicing the latter for Cartoon Network 's "". He also lent his voice to the later series "" and "". In anime, Kaye has been the voice behind Sesshomaru in the English dubbed "InuYasha" series, Treize Khushrenada in "Mobile Suit Gundam Wing", Recoome in "Dragon Ball Z" (1996–98) and as Soun Tendo in "Ranma ½". His involvement in anime has led to several appearances at conventions. Kaye later moved to Los Angeles and has since worked on "" as the villain Khyber, on "Regular Show" as Reginald, and on "Xiaolin Chronicles" as Clay Bailey, F-Bot, and Chase Young. He is voicing several characters on the "Avengers Assemble" animated series  and Max Tennyson in the reboot of "Ben 10". He shared the role of the Stretch Monster with Miguel Ferrer in "Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters", and also took over in the late actor's role of Vandal Savage in "". Kaye also narrates film trailers and network promos for ABC, Fox, The CW, National Geographic, TLC, FX, and others. Personal life. Kaye and his wife, Maria Hope, have a daughter named Tianna.