Who was the original voice of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street?
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch is a character on the television program "Sesame Street". He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can. His favorite thing is trash, as evidenced by the song "I Love Trash", with a running theme being his collection of seemingly useless items. Although the term "Grouch" aptly describes Oscar's misanthropic interaction with the other characters, it also refers to his species. His birthday, as noted by Sesame Workshop, is on June 1. The character is performed by Caroll Spinney, and has been performed by him since the show's first episode. Since 2015, Eric Jacobson has been the understudy for the character.
Oscar the Grouch
The initial puppet, built by staff builder John Lovelady, was yellow, but since there was already a very large yellow character named Big Bird (also puppeteered by Spinney), they decided to change Oscar to orange. Oscar remained orange only for the first season of "Sesame Street" and then changed to green, which became his permanent color. This was explained within the show by a visit to Swamp Mushy Muddy.
Slimey the Worm
Slimey the Worm is a light and dark orange striped worm that is the pet of Oscar the Grouch on Jim Henson's Muppet show "Sesame Street". Introduced in Season 2 (1970–1971), he is played by Martin P. Robinson and is the smallest of all characters on "Sesame Street", being only 7 cm (2¾in). His small size does not affect his attitude of being one not to wince at the sight of extreme activities. As Lou Berger, head writer for "Sesame Street", put it, "Slimey shows viewers that even the smallest creature can be the most heroic, and that's an important thing for kids to see." Slimey has done many extreme things on "Sesame Street", including winning a gold medal in the Worm Olympics, skydiving from a plane, being shot out of a cannon whilst kissing girlfriend Glo and becoming the first worm in space. At first Slimey and his family did not talk, communicating by squeaking and wriggling, Slimey would be held up to Oscar's ear to talk to him. He and his family now, however, have digitally enhanced squeaky voices. Slimey's voice is currently provided by Dick Maitland. His birthday is on September 19th.
List of Sesame Street Muppets
The Street scenes were "the glue" that "pulled the show together", so producers knew they needed to make significant changes. The producers decided to reject the advisers' advice and reshot the Street segments; Henson and his coworkers created Muppets that could interact with the human actors, specifically Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird, who became two of the show's most enduring characters. These test episodes were directly responsible for what writer Malcolm Gladwell called "the essence of "Sesame Street"—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults". Since 2001, the full rights for the Muppets created for "Sesame Street" have been owned by Sesame Workshop.
Doris Grau
In 1986, Grau played a role in the television series "All Is Forgiven". Between 1986 and 1987, she played the character Corinne in a few episodes of the sitcom "Cheers", a show on which she had previously worked as script supervisor during seasons one and four. Grau worked as a script supervisor on Fox Broadcasting Company's "The Tracey Ullman Show" (1987–1990), a variety show that featured among many things the first appearance of the fictional animated Simpson family. This family was later given their own animated series on Fox, called "The Simpsons", in 1989. Grau worked on that show as a script supervisor as well. Grau also voiced some characters in "The Simpsons". She is best known for lending her voice to Lunchlady Doris, who speaks with a "gruff voice" according to "The Journal Gazette" editor Dean Robinson. This character appeared on the show with Grau's voice between 1991 and 1997. Grau also worked as an actress on the animated series "The Critic" that was created by writers of "The Simpsons" in 1994. She voiced the chain-smoking character Doris Grossman, who is the make-up artist for the main character of the show.
Frasier
Grammer had been the voice of Sideshow Bob on "The Simpsons" since 1990. In a 1997 episode (while "Frasier" was still in production), the character's brother, Cecil Terwilliger, was introduced, played by Pierce, as referenced in the episode title, "Brother from Another Series". The episode contained numerous "Frasier" references, including a "Frasier"-style version of "The Simpsons" theme for a transition and its iconic title card for the same thing. Pierce returned as Cecil for the second time (the first since "Frasier" had concluded) alongside Grammer in the 2007 episode "Funeral for a Fiend". The episode introduced the brothers' father, Dr. Robert Terwilliger, who was portrayed by Mahoney.
Big Bird
During instances where Spinney (or to a lesser extent, Matt Vogel) is performing on location and cannot get a video feed, a small hole is made in the costume to allow him to see. In such cases, Big Bird must wear a necktie to cover the hole. This can also be seen in the "Sesame Street Live" shows. Likewise, during instances where Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch (both performed by Spinney) are to be in a scene together, Jim Martin operates Oscar unless Matt Vogel is operating Big Bird, in which cases Oscar is performed by Spinney as usual.
Oscar the Grouch
A hybrid of Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, and the Cookie Monster appears in "The Goodies" episode "The Goodies Rule – O.K.?", where it attacked Tim Brooke-Taylor whilst in a bin, only for Tim to eat it.
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?
In a single released in 2000 and produced by The Alchemist, underground rapper Agallah sampled the "Sesame Street" theme on "Crookie Monster". Agallah also rapped in the voice of Cookie Monster on the track, and the track used other vocal samples from other Sesame Street characters such as Grover and Herry Monster.
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
In the main story, Oscar the Grouch plants the seeds of doubt in Big Bird's mind whether Santa Claus can actually fit down chimneys to deliver Christmas presents. A distraught Big Bird enlists the help of Kermit the Frog and Grover to interview children about how he manages it; their responses vary. Big Bird even attempts a reenactment with Mr. Snuffleupagus but it is unsuccessful. Big Bird spends the night out in the cold on the roof, waiting for Santa to appear in person. After the residents of Sesame Street realize he's gone missing, Maria confronts Oscar for upsetting Big Bird, who agrees to help search for him.
Xander Mobus
Xander Mobus (born July 8, 1992) is an American voice actor, who is known for his work in English-dubbed anime and video games. In 2014, he voiced the announcer and the characters Master Hand and Crazy Hand in "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U", and returned for the role in 2018's "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate". He also voices Christo in "" and Joker in "Persona 5". He voice acted various comedic requests through social media during this period, such as singing the Pokémon Theme in the "Super Smash Bros." announcer's voice.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar tries to keep his Canadian identity secret, but admitted that he is Canadian due to his parents being from Canada. He was born in Minto, New Brunswick, with his father having been born in Saint David's Ridge, New Brunswick, and his mother having grown up in Nova Scotia. His favorite dessert is spinach sardine chocolate fudge sundaes. His second favorite dessert is mashed bananas with ice cubes and cold beef gravy, and in Season 12 he owns a car called "The Sloppy Jalopy".
Mino Caprio
Caprio is typically known for dubbing voices of celebrities and cartoon characters. He is the official Italian dub voice for celebrities like Seth MacFarlane, Martin Short, and Mark Williams. He is the Italian voice for Arthur Weasley in "Harry Potter" and Peter Griffin in "Family Guy" since 1999. Caprio is also the current Italian voice of Kermit the Frog, and has voiced the frog in every Muppets movie to date.
Oscar the Grouch
In scenes where Big Bird and Oscar (both performed by Caroll Spinney) interact in a scene together, the situation has varied depending on the number of lines one or the other is given. When Spinney performs Big Bird, a second puppeteer operates Oscar to Spinney's voice or vocal track; however, occasionally, Matt Vogel instead operate the Big Bird puppet to a vocal track by Spinney, while he performs Oscar. The puppeteers have included Jerry Nelson and Jim Martin.
Grampa Simpson
Grampa's voice is performed by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices numerous other characters, including Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman. Castellaneta was part of the regular cast of "The Tracey Ullman Show" and had previously done some voice-over work in Chicago alongside his wife Deb Lacusta. Castellaneta likes to stay in character during recording sessions, and tries to visualize a scene in his mind so that he can give the proper voice to it. The episode "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" (season six, 1994) featured many interactions between Grampa and Homer, so Castellaneta therefore had to talk to himself when he recorded the voices for that episode. Castellaneta said it is hard for him to do Grampa's voice because it is "wheezy and airy".
Doris Grau
Doris Grau (October 12, 1924 – December 30, 1995) was an American script supervisor, actress, and voice artist from Brooklyn. Shortly after moving to Hollywood in 1940, she began her career with supervising film and television scripts. She continued to do this until the 1990s and worked on films such as "Point Blank" and "King Kong" and television shows such as "Cheers" and "The Tracey Ullman Show". In addition, Grau did some acting in her later years, playing both live-action and animated roles. On the sitcom "The Simpsons", she both worked as a script supervisor and provided the voice of Lunchlady Doris and other minor characters. Grau died from respiratory failure.
Mike Pollock (voice actor)
Michael B. Pollock (born March 9, 1965) is an American voice actor best known as the voice of Doctor Eggman in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" franchise, as well as many characters in various anime English-language dubs and video games. He provided voices for the narrator, Raoul Contesta, and Drayden in the "Pokémon series", Adon Coborlwitz from "Berserk", Meat from "Ultimate Muscle", Langston Lickatoad from "Viva Piñata", Suikyou from the "Ikki Tousen" series and Beast in the motion comic adaptation of "Astonishing X-Men".
Hans Boskamp
After retiring as a footballer, Boskamp worked at the Amsterdam stock exchange and later became a singer and actor. He also worked for the Bovema record company and accompanied several big-name artists, among them John Lennon and Yoko Ono during their Bed-In in the Hilton Amsterdam. He also provided the Dutch dub of "Sesame Street"'s Oscar the Grouch.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
The book has been adapted into a variety of media, including stage and film. Chuck Jones and Ben Washam (Co-Director) adapted the story as an animated special in 1966, featuring narration by Boris Karloff, who also provided the Grinch's voice. Thurl Ravenscroft sang "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" with lyrics written by Dr. Seuss himself. In 2000, the book was adapted into a live-action film, directed by Ron Howard and starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch. Illumination Entertainment also developed a 3D animated feature film, titled "The Grinch" directed by Scott Mosier and Yarrow Cheney and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the Grinch. It was originally scheduled to be released on November 10, 2017, but in June 2016, it was pushed back to November 9, 2018.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar openly admits that he does not like anything or anybody that is nice, except young human children (the only people that he can actually act nice to without facing ridicule from his fellow Grouches) as well as older fans of the show. However, the only person he has ever liked on-camera was Maria, which he would never admit. He once inadvertently complimented a dance that his followers, The Grouchketeers, had performed for him. Oscar has shown rare acts of kindness such as trying to replace Ernie's rubber duckie when Ernie had lost it. He also went out to find the missing Big Bird in "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street". He and his girlfriend Grundgetta also love each other, though their relationship is (understandably) somewhat rocky (though he does show he cares for her). As stated above, he is usually very nice to children especially when making public appearances with Spinney. According to a recent episode, Oscar hates "Pox News" (a parody of Fox News) but his mother likes it.
John Tartaglia
Tartaglia joined "Sesame Street"s puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, making him one of the youngest Sesame Street puppeteers in the show's history. He performed as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the understudy for Kevin Clash's Elmo. He performed as Ernie for the second season of "Play with Me Sesame" and as Oscar the Grouch for "Sesame Street 4D". He became a full-time part of "Sesame Street" at the age of 18.
Joe Alaskey
Joseph Francis Alaskey III (April 17, 1952 – February 3, 2016) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and impressionist.
Alaskey was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death. He alternated with Jeff Bergman and Greg Burson in voicing Warner Bros. cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, and Taz, among many others. He also voiced Plucky Duck on "Tiny Toon Adventures" from 1990 to 1995. Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon cartoon "Rugrats" (inheriting the role after David Doyle's death in 1997). He voiced Lou again in the "Rugrats" spin-off series "All Grown Up!", as well as the "Rugrats" film trilogy. He also voiced Uncle Stinkie in "Casper", as well as the film's 1996 animated spin-off "The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper".
Sonny Strait
As a voice actor, Strait is considered to be one of the most recognized voice actors in the business. Besides "Dragon Ball Z"'s Krillin he has worked on many popular animated characters including Usopp in "One Piece", Maes Hughes in "Fullmetal Alchemist", and Cartoon Network’s laid back, robot host Toonami TOM. He has also worked as a writer and director on several TV series including "Dragon Ball series", "Case Closed", and "Lupin the Third".
Sesame Street (fictional location)
Oscar the Grouch's Trash Can sits in front of a fence made of salvaged doors and is where Oscar the Grouch lives. Oscar the Grouch's Trash Can is deeper than anyone suspects. In the first episode, Gordon mentioned that the Trash Can had three and a half bedrooms. The seemingly bottomless domain houses a variety of diverse Grouch amenities and luxuries. Oscar's girlfriend Grundgetta is his most recurring visitor to his Trash Can. In "Sesame Street Visits the Firehouse", Gordon mentioned that in Oscar's Trash Can lived, "Two elephants, a puppy, a rhino, a goat, and a worm." The only time when the interior of Oscar's Trash Can was explored as a setting was in the 1999 film "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland", when Elmo impatiently enters the Trash Can in search of his blanket. In Season 46, as part of the set redesign, the Trash Can was moved to the other end of the front of 123 Sesame Street, along with a recycling center and a compost bin.
Ruth Buzzi
She appeared frequently on "Sesame Street" in comedy sketch clips from her six years on that show, and is often heard as the voice of outlandish failed torch singer Suzie Kabloozie. While she was a regular performer on "Sesame Street", she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work as Ruthie, a shopkeeper. Buzzi performed in numerous national television commercials, most notably for Clorox 2, Clairol, Ban roll-on deodorant, and Santa Anita Raceway, and voicing Granny Goodwitch in television commercials for Sugar Crisp cereal. She originated the Goodwitch character in the animated TV series "Linus! The Lion Hearted" (1964–65).
Emilio Delgado
Emilio Delgado (born May 8, 1940) is a Mexican American actor (film and television), voice artist and singer best known for his role as Luis, the Fix-it Shop owner, on the children's television series "Sesame Street". Delgado joined the cast of "Sesame Street" in 1971 and remained until his contract was not renewed in 2017, as part of Sesame Workshop's re-tooling of the series, although Sesame Workshop later announced that there'd be talks to bring him back. Following his departure, the workshop stated that Delgado would continue to represent them at public events. He began his professional career in Los Angeles in 1968. Delgado lives in New York City with his wife Carole.
Oscar the Grouch
On May 29, 2009, Oscar the Grouch appeared in an ABC television special on economics called "Un-broke: What You Need To Know About Money". He appeared showing the viewers what investing stocks means. It's shown that he has investment filings with Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Washington Mutual even though they are bankrupt companies, but he then says that they're not really his filings. The press kit for the special reveals that Oscar was popular with the crew for the special even during filming.
Oscar Brand
Brand also served during the 1960s as a board member of the Children's Television Workshop and participated in the development of Sesame Street. Because of some mild disagreements that had occurred between Brand and the board members regarding the appropriate setting for the show, it has been reputed that as a playful joke, the character of Oscar the Grouch was named after him, although there are dueling tales as to the origin of the character.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar inspired an Apple Macintosh INIT written by Eric B. Shapiro and shown at the 1989 MacHack conference, featuring a singing animated Oscar that appeared from the trash can when the trash was emptied. The hack was so popular that some parents lost the entire contents of their hard disks to preschoolers wanting to see more of Oscar, prompting Shapiro to create a stand-alone application using the same animation and sounds. The software was discontinued after Children's Television Workshop sent Shapiro a cease and desist letter.
Doug Brochu
Douglas Mark "Doug" Brochu (born September 29, 1990) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. He is best known as Grady Mitchell in the Disney Channel Original Series, "Sonny with a Chance" and "So Random!". Doug has an older brother, Chris Brochu, who is notable for his role as Ray Beech in the Disney Channel Original Movie "Lemonade Mouth".
Mrs. Grouch
Mrs. Grouch has visited Sesame Street various times over the years, including in episode 3141, to make sure that her son is still Grouchy, and hasn't been turned nice. That same year, she also appeared in the special "Sesame Street Stays Up Late!", communicating by telephone with Oscar and other relatives. In a later visit to Sesame Street, she was performed by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph. After she arrives in that episode, she & Oscar greet each other in a very normal Grouchy way (Oscar: "Rotten to see ya, Ma." Mrs. Grouch: "Ah, rotten to see you too, son. Heh heh heh!"), which is how Grouch families tell each other that they really are happy to see each other.
Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, writer and activist, best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier". He has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Tony Award, and has also worked as a television producer, director, writer, and as a voice actor on "The Simpsons" as Sideshow Bob (for which he received his fifth Primetime Emmy). He also recently won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for his voice work in Guillermo del Toro's award-winning series "Trollhunters".
Khalid Moultrie
Khalid Moultrie (born in 1995) is an American actor best known as the voice of Traction Jackson on "Sesame Street". He also appeared in the promo for the HBO original series "The Wire" as Young Omar.
Moishe Oofnik
Moishe Oofnik (Hebrew: מוישה אופניק, lit. Moishe the Grouch), is a main character in "Rechov SumSum", the Israeli version of the children's television series "Sesame Street". He is the Grouch equivalent of "Sesame Street"'s Oscar the Grouch. He is also Oscar's cousin. He was portrayed by Gilles Ben-David.
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
The special features many plot elements that are very loosely tied together, the most important being Oscar as the "Ebenezer Scrooge" on Sesame Street, as a minor takeoff on "A Christmas Carol". They include Leslie Uggams thinking lemonade was hot cocoa, singer Anne Murray and a magic eggnog container, Oscar adopting a kitten with a broken leg, and Ethel Merman calling Imogene Coca an idiot. Also appearing is Dick Smothers (only one half of the Smothers Brothers was hired for the special), Henry Fonda and Michael Jackson.
Noam Zylberman
Noam Zylberman (born June 30, 1973 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli-Canadian voice actor best known for the voice of Split Kit from "Garbage Pail Kids" and also the voice of Bentley Raccoon in the popular animated series "The Raccoons" from 1987 to 1990.
The Boss Baby
Miles Bakshi, son of the DreamWorks Animation's producer Gina Shay and grandson of the film director Ralph Bakshi, who directed the 1972 American adult animated comedy film Fritz the Cat, provided the voice of 7-year old Tim. Having been often present at DreamWorks, McGrath initially asked Bakshi only to provide a temporary voice for Tim to see if the character "worked". The producers listened to 30 to 40 children to choose the scratch voice. McGrath explained their decision: "No one sounded as authentic as Miles did. A lot of child actors are great, but they are over-articulate for their age. Miles was just natural and charming. He had a little slur to his voice at the time and it was very endearing." Three years later, Miles was told that he got the part. Bakshi was 10 when he began recording the voice. During the long process, his voice started to change and "by the end it got pretty tough", according to Bakshi, who was 14 when the film was released. He had to get his voice "very soft, but when I got that perfect tone it was great."
Kermit the Frog
Kermit the Frog is a Muppet character, an anthropomorphic frog and Jim Henson's most well-known creation. Introduced in 1955, Kermit serves as the straight man protagonist of numerous Muppet productions, most notably "Sesame Street" and "The Muppet Show", as well as in other television series, films, specials, and public service announcements through the years. Henson originally performed Kermit until his death in 1990; Steve Whitmire performed Kermit from that time up until his dismissal from the role in 2016. Kermit is currently performed by Matt Vogel. He was also voiced by Frank Welker in "Muppet Babies" and occasionally in other animation projects, and is voiced by Matt Danner in the 2018 reboot of "Muppet Babies".
Mrs. Grouch
According to an interview on "Q", Oscar explained that his father is from Saint David Ridge, New Brunswick, and that his mother grew up in Nova Scotia. Saint David Ridge is a rural community near Moores Mills, New Brunswick, which was also mentioned in the appearance. However, these are actually the respective hometowns of the parents of Caroll Spinney, performer of Oscar the Grouch, Mrs. Grouch's son.
Oscar the Grouch
Initially, the Puppet characters on "Sesame Street" did not actually appear on Sesame Street itself, but were relegated to the intermediary segments. Muppets creator Jim Henson wanted them to be integrated into the series, suggesting a giant bird and creature living in the neighborhood's trash can. The character was developed by "Sesame Street" head writer Jon Stone and Henson, based on the personality of a “magnificently rude” waiter. Puppeteer Caroll Spinney found inspiration for the voice in the driver of a New York City taxi he took to the studio.
Boris Karloff
In non-horror roles, he is best known to modern audiences for narrating and as the voice of Grinch in the animated television special of Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1966). For his contribution to film and television, Boris Karloff was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Grant George
Grant R. George is an American voice actor who is known for voicing characters in anime dubs and video games. He is married to voice actress Jessica Gee-George. Grant is best known as the voice of Izuru Kira from the internationally acclaimed "Bleach" anime series, the Warrior of Light from "Final Fantasy", Sho Fuwa from "Skip Beat!", Gen Shishio from "Kekkaishi", Koga from "Zetman", Night Rikuo from the "" series, Uzu Sanageyama from "Kill la Kill", Akira Hidaka and Ichigen Miwa from "K", Chikage Rokujo from the "Durarara!!" series, Keiichi Maebara from "When They Cry", Lancer from "Fate/Zero", and Gilgamesh from the Studio Deen adaption of "Fate/stay night" series and . He has also voiced Scott Lang in several of the Marvel animated series.
Caroll Spinney
On October 17, 2018, Spinney officially announced his retirement from "Sesame Street", beginning that very week. His last performances as Big Bird and Oscar were recorded as part of the series' landmark 50th season, which will air the following year. The roles of Big Bird and Oscar will be handed over to Matt Vogel and Eric Jacobson, respectively.
Sesame Street (comic strip)
Though the earlier version of the strip avoided the Muppets, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster joined the cast in 1973, and appeared through the end of the strip's run in 1975.
Samuel Vincent
Samuel Vincent Khouth (born October 5, 1971), professionally known as Samuel "Sam" Vincent, is a Canadian voice actor, based in Vancouver who specializes for voicing characters in animated series, anime dubs and video games. His best-known roles are Edd Double D from "Ed, Edd n Eddy", Guy Hamdon and Shezap from Shezow, and Krypto in the Cartoon Network TV series "Krypto the Superdog". He also voiced Athrun Zala from "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED", Hikaru Shindo from "Hikaru no Go", Julian Star from "Cardcaptors", and Tieria Erde from "Mobile Suit Gundam 00". Other roles include Forge from "X-Men Evolution" and Baby Bugs, Baby Tweety and Baby Daffy from "Baby Looney Tunes", Sideswipe from "" and the voices of Aerrow and Dark Ace from "Storm Hawks". He is also known for Sonic's singing voice in "Sonic Underground", and the title character and the alien Billy of "Martin Mystery" and from 2018 onwards is the voice of Lloyd Garmadon in "".
Sesame Street characters
Also living outside of the building is Oscar the Grouch, a trash can-dwelling creature belonging to his own unique species, who is portrayed as a habitual pessimist and was designed to give children "permission to feel grouchy—and to demonstrate differing opinions". Oscar and Big Bird were specifically created for the reshooting of the "Street" scenes with the idea that they would be able to interact with the human characters. For his part, Oscar has several friends of his own despite his pessimism; these include the Grouch's pet worm, Slimey, and his girlfriend Grundgetta.
Frank Oz
Frank Oz (born Frank Richard Oznowicz; May 25, 1944) is an American actor, puppeteer, director and producer. His career began as a puppeteer, where he performed the Muppet characters of Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle in "The Muppet Show", and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover in "Sesame Street". He is also known for the role of Yoda in the "Star Wars" series, in which he has performed and provided the voice for the character in several films and television series.
Sean Astin
Astin's career has also expanded to include voice-over roles. He narrated the American version of the Animal Planet series "Meerkat Manor", and voices the title character in the animated Disney Channel series "Special Agent Oso". His other voice work includes "", in which he voiced Kodi, a teenage husky who is the son of the titular character, and the video game "Kingdom Hearts", in the latter of which he provided the voice of Hercules, replacing actor Tate Donovan, who was unavailable but would return for "Kingdom Hearts II". Astin voiced Raphael in the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animated series on Nickelodeon, which premiered on September 29, 2012.
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story is a 2014 American documentary film about Caroll Spinney, the original performer of "Sesame Street" characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. The film has received generally favorable reviews. It has been shown at many film festivals, including the April 2014 Hot Docs Festival.
Maddie Blaustein
Blaustein was a voice actress at 4Kids Entertainment, where she worked on the English dub version of the "Pokémon" anime. She provided "filler" voices for various characters until episode #29, when she was given the role of Meowth, who she played through season 8. She also voiced Sartorius in "Yu-Gi-Oh! GX" and Solomon Muto (Sugoroku Mutou) in the "Yu-Gi-Oh!" second series anime. She voiced Chef Kawasaki in "", Doctor Kureha in "One Piece", and Arngrim, Lawfer, and Lezard in "". She performed a wide variety of voices. For example, in "Valkyrie Profile", she performed a very "tough" masculine voice (Arngrim), as well as a high-class one (Lawfer), and the somewhat androgynous voice of a mad scientist/sorcerer (Lezard Valeth). During the 2004 Democratic Party primaries, she voiced Sméagol on the Mike Malloy Show, announcing a satirical presidential bid.
Oscar Martinez (The Office)
In the episode "Gossip", Michael spreads rumors about various people throughout the Office, he tells everyone that Oscar is the voice of the Taco Bell dog. Oscar also helps Andy cope when a rumor is spread that he is gay. In "The Meeting", Michael calls Oscar to his office to seek advice about his upcoming colonoscopy due to Michael thinking that it's going to be a lot like anal intercourse and feels Oscar would be well versed in that field, this makes Oscar visibly uncomfortable.
Sesame Street News Flash
The Sesame Street News Flash was a recurring segment on the children's television show "Sesame Street". First aired in 1971, the series starred Kermit the Frog as a trench coat-dressed roving reporter who interviews Muppet versions of characters from fairy tales, Mother Goose nursery rhymes and key moments in history.
Bob McGrath
Robert Emmet McGrath (born June 13, 1932) is an American singer, musician, actor, voice artist and children's author best known for playing original human character Bob Johnson on the long-running educational television series, "Sesame Street".
Susanne Uhlen
Susanne Uhlen (b. January 17, 1955 in Potsdam, Germany) is a German actress. She is the daughter of actor Wolfgang Kieling, best known as being the voice of "Bert", of the "Sesame Street" duo Bert and Ernie, and German actress Gisela Uhlen, niece to German actor Max Schreck of "Nosferatu" fame.
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc
The Japanese voice cast features Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts (replacing Nobutoshi Canna from the original anime), Takahiro Sakurai as Griffith (replacing Toshiyuki Morikawa), and Toa Yukinari as Casca (replacing Yūko Miyamura). The English voice cast features Marc Diraison as Guts, Kevin T. Collins as Griffith, and Carrie Keranen as Casca, all reprising their roles from the original anime.
The Simpsons shorts
The actors who voiced the characters in the short later reprised their roles in "The Simpsons" series. Dan Castellaneta performed the voices of Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, and Krusty the Clown. Homer's voice sounds different in the shorts compared to most episodes of the half-hour show, as Castellaneta originally tried to impersonate Walter Matthau. Although he would retain this characteristic through the early episodes of the regular series, it was gradually dropped as Homer's personality evolved away from that of a stereotypical sitcom father. The producers of the show were in need of someone to do voiceovers, so rather than hire actors, they asked Castellaneta (who had already done some voice work) and Julie Kavner, both members of the Ullman Show cast, to do it. The kids still needed voices, and Nancy Cartwright, a journeyman voice actress, came in to audition. She recalled that "I was already doing voicework for eight different shows at the time and thought this would just be another job. They originally wanted me for Lisa's voice, but I thought 'Nah, I don't want to be the boring middle child, I want to be a bratty 10-year old boy.' So as soon as I gave a demonstration, [Brooks and Groening] hired me on the spot." Some time later, Yeardley Smith, a 22-year-old B-movie actress whose most notable accomplishment to date was featuring in the notorious 1986 Stephen King film "Maximum Overdrive", was brought in to do Lisa's voice. The recording of the shorts was often primitive; according to Cartwright, the dialogue for the Ullman shorts was recorded on a portable tape deck in a makeshift studio, which consisted of the video engineer suite, above the bleachers on the Ullman show set. While most of the characters' personalities are similar to what they are in the series, Lisa is simply a clone of Bart and did not have a distinct personality until a few episodes into the regular series.
Alex Doduk
Alex Doduk (born as Alexander Doduk) is an American voice actor and former child actor who is well known for his roles in the films: Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001), Scary Godmother (2003), The Impossible Elephant (2001) and in the Animated series Brain Powered. He was the first voice of Lan Hikari for 14 episodes (1-5, 9-17) on the English version of "Megaman NT Warrior" before Brad Swaile became the voice for Lan. Doduk has voiced in other English dubs of anime, such as "InuYasha" and the Ocean dub of "Escaflowne". He was also José on "Cybersix". He provided the voice of Vega Obscura in the English version of "". In 2000, Doduk voiced Jake Spankenheimer in "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer".
I Love Trash
"I Love Trash" is a song sung by the Muppet character Oscar the Grouch (performed by Caroll Spinney) on "Sesame Street". The song was first sung in the first season of the series and has been re-taped several times.
Mrs. Grouch
Mrs. Grouch is the mother of Oscar the Grouch in the long-running American children's television series "Sesame Street" (1969–).
Berserk (manga)
The voice cast features Hiroaki Iwanaga as Guts (replacing Nobutoshi Canna from the original anime), Takahiro Sakurai as Griffith (replacing Toshiyuki Morikawa), and Toa Yukinari as Casca (replacing Yūko Miyamura). The English voice cast features Marc Diraison as Guts, Kevin T. Collins as Griffith, and Carrie Keranen as Casca, all reprising their roles from the original anime.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar can also become mobile with the help of his friend Bruno the Trashman, who carries Oscar around in his trash can. Bruno is a full-body costume which allows Oscar's puppeteer to manipulate Oscar while remaining hidden by the Bruno costume. (While Bruno was seen fairly regularly in Sesame Street's early days, he hasn't appeared on the show in over a decade.) Also, as seen in the "Elmo's World" episode "Dance", Oscar's legs can protrude from the bottom of his trash can to allow him to walk around. Similarly, in "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" (1978), Oscar is seen ice skating. For several seasons, Oscar was frequently shown with his friend and pet Slimey, an orange worm. On occasional episodes he has mentioned leaving Sesame Street to attend "the annual Grouch convention in Syracuse, New York".
Steve Blum
Steven Jay Blum is an American voice actor of anime, animation and video games known for his distinctive deep voice. He provides the voice of TOM, the host of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's Toonami programming block. Some of his major roles in anime include Spike Spiegel in "Cowboy Bebop", Mugen in "Samurai Champloo", Eikichi Onizuka in "Great Teacher Onizuka", Guilmon and Mitsuo Yamaki in "Digimon Tamers", Shishio Makoto in "Rurouni Kenshin" and Orochimaru and Zabuza Momochi in "Naruto". In animation, he also voices Vilgax, Heatblast and Ghostfreak in "Ben 10", Starscream in "", Wolverine in "Wolverine and the X-Men", Zeb Orrelios in "Star Wars Rebels" and Amon in "The Legend of Korra". He was also awarded the Guinness World Record for being the most prolific video game voice actor in 2012, with roles in franchises such as "Call of Duty", "God of War", "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon", "Naruto", "Transformers" and "X-Men". In 2014, he voiced Shoe and Sparky in the animated film "The Boxtrolls". In 2015, he appeared in "The Incredible True Story", a rap album by Logic.
Wolfgang Kieling
Early on, Kieling also became a dubbing actor for German dubs of foreign films, being the standard dubbing voice of Glenn Ford, Frank Sinatra (in his 1950s films), and he also dubbed Charlton Heston in the first part of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise. Thanks to his voice's similarity to that of Gert Günther Hoffmann, he would also replace Hoffmann as the dubbing voice of Paul Newman when Hoffmann was not available. On TV, he was especially known as the German voice of Bert (see Bert and Ernie) from "Sesame Street" up until his death in 1985.
Peter Piekos
Piekos was the original voice actor for Cookie Monster (and Herry Monster) for "Sesamstraat", the Dutch co-production of "Sesame Street". He occasionally performed the voices of Herbert Birdsfoot and Sherlock Hemlock, as well as a lot of the narrators: his regular voice sounds like an old fashioned radio announcer.
Elmo
Fans of "Sesame Street" have complained that Elmo's prominent status has caused roles to be greatly reduced for some older characters, such as Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Count von Count, Prairie Dawn, Grover, and Cookie Monster. Some fans also blame Elmo for the permanent departure of Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street. Elmo has been referred to as the "Little Red Menace" by Sesame Street traditionalists.
Caroll Spinney
Caroll Edwin Spinney (born December 26, 1933) is a retired American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street" from its inception in 1969 until 2018. He is usually credited as Caroll Spinney but has sometimes been credited using the alternate spelling "Carroll Spinney" or under the name Ed Spinney.
Wim T. Schippers
Schippers has been doing the voices of Ernie, Kermit the Frog, Guy Smiley, and Count Von Count on "Sesamstraat", the Dutch co-production of "Sesame Street", ever since its first season in 1976. With Paul Haenen, who does the voice of Bert, he wrote and recorded a slew of Bert and Ernie albums.
Corey Hartzog
Corey Hartzog is an American voice actor that works primarily for Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks. In anime, he is known as the voice of Tatsumi from the popular "Akame ga Kill" series, Masamune Matsuoka from "Aoharu x Machinegun", Ichiro Sato from the "", Quon Mitsuchi from the "Towa no Quon movies", Kanato Sakamaki from the "Diabolik Lovers" series, Noiz from "Dramatical Murder", Sugane Tachibana from the "Gatchaman Crowds" series, Toshikazu Asagi from "Majestic Prince", and Yuya Bridges in "Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse".
Thrift Shop
The children's show "Sesame Street" showed a parody of "Thrift Shop" in which Macklemore, as the character "Mucklemore", shows Oscar the Grouch and his other Grouch friends the proper way to recycle their trash.
Friedrich W. Bauschulte
In addition to various roles in film and television, Bauschulte also worked extensively as a voice-over speaker for German language media. His best known such role was as the voice of Lieutenant Mike Stone in the US TV series "The Streets of San Francisco", played by Karl Malden. From then on he was Karl Malden's German voice in all his films. He also several times voiced Sid James and Cyril Chamberlain in the Carry On films. Additional voice-over roles included Richard Attenborough in "Jurassic Park", Alec Guinness in "Murder by Death" (German title, "Eine Leiche zum Dessert"), Edward Platt in the television series "Get Smart" (German title, "Mini-Max") and Barnard Hughes in the television series "Mr. Merlin". The German-speaking children of the 1970s know his voice as that of Mr. Rossi in the German version of "Il Signor Rossi cerca la felicità".
He was one of the German voices of Ludwig von Drake, succeeding Horst Gentzen, before being replaced by Eberhard Prüter.
Lam Pou-chuen
Francis Lam Pou-chuen (; Pinyin: "Lín Bǎoquán"; 10 October 1951 – 2 January 2015) was a Hong Kong voice actor who was best known for voicing the character Doraemon for the Hong Kong version of the anime for over thirty years in addition to being the Cantonese voice of Sammo Hung in many of his dubbed blockbusters.
Oscar the Grouch
On October 11, 2009, Oscar appeared on the CBC Radio One show "Q", hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. Beyond talking about his time on "Sesame Street", his love for trash and recycling, Oscar revealed that his father is actually from Saint David, New Brunswick and his mother grew up in Nova Scotia, thus making him of Canadian descent. He further went on to suggest that he had cheated on Grundgetta, his long-time girlfriend.
Hank Azaria
Azaria performed a number of voice roles in addition to "The Simpsons", although he noted in 2005: "I started doing other voiceovers for cartoons for a couple of years, but I didn't really love it. I was spoiled by "The Simpsons"." He voiced Venom/Eddie Brock in "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" between 1994 and 1996. In the animated feature "Anastasia" (1997), he voiced Bartok the bat and reprised the role in the direct-to-video prequel "Bartok the Magnificent" (1999). For his performance in "Anastasia", Azaria won the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production. He also voiced Eric in the American dub of the series "Stressed Eric", Harold Zoid in the 2001 "Futurama" episode "That's Lobstertainment!", and Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg in "Chicago 10" (2007). For the 2011 film "Hop", Azaria voiced Carlos and Phil. The response to the film was mostly negative, but many reviewers praised Azaria's performance. For example, Sandie Chen of "The Washington Post" said "Azaria has been honing his over-the-top Spanish accent since "The Birdcage", so anything he says grabs some laughs", while Emma Simmonds of "Time Out" called him an "unflappable presence, voicing two characters with style". Later in the year he voiced The Mighty Sven in "Happy Feet Two". Azaria voices Shelfish Sheldon in "Mack & Moxy." He also voices the lead character, Texan border agent Bud Buckwald, in "Bordertown", which started in 2016.
Go, Stewie, Go!
As Stewie and Brian watch a recorded episode of "Jolly Farm Revue", Stewie notes the introduction of several new characters to the show. The television screen is then shown, as Karina reveals the characters to his co-star, Julie. The new characters include parodies of the "Sesame Street" characters Big Bird, who describes himself as a "big bird," and a self-described "grouch" named "Moody Green Garbage Creature", who resembles Oscar the Grouch, and butch and femme versions of Bert and Ernie, who try to protect Karina and Julie from Oscar.
Robin Gibb
In 1978, Gibb performed on the "Sesame Street Fever" album for the Sesame Street children's TV program. He was one of the singers on the "Sesame Street Fever" title track, he sang a song called "Trash" for the character Oscar the Grouch, and spoke with Cookie Monster at the beginning of "C is for Cookie".
Joe Alaskey
Alaskey did voice work for non-Warner Bros. characters. He has voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on "Rugrats" (inheriting the role after David Doyle's death in 1997). He voiced Lou again in the "Rugrats" spin-off series, "All Grown Up!", as well as the "Rugrats" film trilogy. He also created the voice of Thomas Timberwolf for the internet series "TimberWolf", created by animation legend Chuck Jones. He was heard briefly as a voice-over announcer for the Toon Disney channel (and sometimes Dcom extras on Disney Channel). He was the voice of Curt Connors in the "Spider-Man 2 video game" and Doctor Octopus in "". Alaskey was in the independent film "The Legend of Sasquatch" and voiced Mermaid Man in the video games "" and "". He voiced Stinkie in "Casper" as well as that film's 1996 animated spin-off, "The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper". Alaskey played Beano Froelich in "Out of This World" but left the show early in its final season, making only infrequent appearances in a few episodes. In the 1980s, he worked as the original announcer on the short-lived game show "Couch Potatoes", hosted by Marc Summers. Alaskey made several onscreen appearances, portraying the show's "next door neighbor". For the show's final weeks, he was replaced by Jim McKrell and the "next door neighbor" concept was dropped. During this time, he was also a panelist on "The New Hollywood Squares", hosted by John Davidson.
Jon Stone
Jon Stone (April 13, 1932 – April 9, 1997) was an American writer, director and producer, who was best known for being an original crew member on "Sesame Street" and is credited with helping develop characters such as Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird. Stone won 18 television Emmy Awards Many regard him as one of the best children's television writers.
Oscar the Grouch
Most sources suggest that the character's name is derived from Oscar's Tavern. In recent years, however, the family of Canadian folk musician Oscar Brand has suggested he was the namesake; Brand was an early board member for the show's non-profit production company, Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop). Writers eventually added other Grouches, an entire species explored in the film "The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland" and various television episodes.
Emmanuel Jacomy
Emmanuel Jacomy (born January 11, 1960) is a French voice actor who specializes in dubbing. He is the official dubbing voice of Pierce Brosnan as of 1995 but also is the dubbing voice of Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker and many others.
Santiago Ziesmer
With a salient voice and versatile range, Ziesmer is best known for dubbing over Jaleel White as Steve Urkel in "Family Matters", Ren Höek in "The Ren & Stimpy Show" (alongside Oliver Feld's Stimpy), and SpongeBob SquarePants in the TV series of the same name. He is also the official German dub voice of Steve Buscemi, the dubover voice of Ted Schmidt in "Queer as Folk", and the dubover voice of the Chris Rock character Pookie in the film "New Jack City". He is the German voices of Wakko Warner from Animaniacs and Dale Gribble from King of the Hill. He has supplied his voice to a number of Disney productions, including the German dub of "DuckTales" as Dewey and the "Winnie-the-Pooh" series as Piglet, and Beauty and the Beast as LeFou. Ziesmer played a dual role in the popular "Dragon Ball" franchise as the first voice of Vegeta in "Dragon Ball Z" and Gil in "Dragon Ball GT" and he also voiced Monokuma in .
Maurice Sendak
Sendak was an early member of the National Board of Advisors of the Children's Television Workshop during the development stages of the "Sesame Street" television series. He also adapted his book "Bumble Ardy" into an animated sequence for the series, with Jim Henson as the voice of Bumble Ardy. He wrote and designed three other animated stories for the series: "Seven Monsters" (which never aired), "Up & Down", and "Broom Adventures".
33rd Daytime Emmy Awards
This year's Lifetime Achievement Award went to Caroll Spinney, a television entertainer for over four decades, who has portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street" since 1969, appearing in over 4,000 episodes.
Joe Raposo
Joseph Guilherme Raposo, (February 8, 1937 – February 5, 1989) was a Portuguese-American composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist, best known for his work on the children's television series "Sesame Street", for which he wrote the theme song, as well as classic songs such as "Bein' Green" and "C Is For Cookie". He also wrote music for television shows such as "The Electric Company", "Shining Time Station" and the sitcoms "Three's Company" and "The Ropers", including their theme songs. In addition to these works, Raposo also composed extensively for three Dr. Seuss TV specials in collaboration with the DePatie-Freleng Enterprises: "Halloween Is Grinch Night" (1977), "Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?" (1980), and "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat" (1982).
Jay Humphry
After the 1969 season, he turned professional and skated with Ice Follies, where he portrayed the role of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street.
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
All the puppeteers who performed the primary "Sesame Street" characters (such as Kevin Clash, Jerry Nelson, Caroll Spinney and Fran Brill) were called to Wilmington, North Carolina for the table read on May 19, 1998. The regular puppets were used for the normal Sesame Street characters, and puppets for assorted Grouches (including Grizzy) were designed and built by Mark Zezsotek, who also built the puppets for Bug and the Pesties. Sonia Manzano reprised her role as Maria, and Roscoe Orman reprised his role as Gordon. Vanessa Williams was cast as the Queen of Trash and the hairstylist colored her hair green for the role. Mandy Patinkin was a last-minute replacement for the original actor hired to play Huxley. For the role, the makeup artist designed false eyebrows for Patinkin to wear to make him seem like he had bushier eyebrows than normal.
Oscar the Grouch
Other Grouches include Bodoque on Mexico's "Plaza Sésamo", Pancho Contreras on US Spanish version, Gugu on Brazil's "Vila Sesamo", Kırpık on Turkey's "Susam Sokağı", Ferrão on Portugal's "Rua Sésamo", and Kewal Khadoosa on India's "Galli Galli Sim Sim". Filipino adaptation "Sesame!" featured Kiko Matsing, basically a gorilla.
Sjef Poort
Poort was mostly active during the 1980s, and performed voices until the mid-1990s. For a long time, he was one of the main singers. He also performed the voices of Hard Head Henry Harris, and Oscar in the song "Swamp Mushy Muddy", one of the few Oscar appearances on "Sesamstraat" in that era.
Dr. Seuss
After Geisel died of cancer at the age of 87 in 1991, his widow Audrey Geisel was placed in charge of all licensing matters. She approved a live-action feature-film version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" starring Jim Carrey, as well as a Seuss-themed Broadway musical called "Seussical", and both premiered in 2000. "The Grinch" has had limited engagement runs on Broadway during the Christmas season, after premiering in 1998 (under the title "How the Grinch Stole Christmas") at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, where it has become a Christmas tradition. In 2003, another live-action film was released, this time an adaptation of "The Cat in the Hat" that featured Mike Myers as the title character. Audrey Geisel spoke critically of the film, especially the casting of Myers as the Cat in the Hat, and stated that she would not allow any further live-action adaptations of Geisel's books. However, a first animated CGI feature film adaptation of "Horton Hears a Who!" was approved, and was eventually released on March 14, 2008, to critical acclaim. A second CGI-animated feature film adaptation of "The Lorax" was released by Universal on March 2, 2012 (on what would have been Seuss's 108th birthday). A third adaptation of Seuss' story, the CGI-animated feature film, "The Grinch", was released by Universal on November 9, 2018.
Slimey the Worm
Sloppy, which is short for "Sloppy Jalopy", Oscar's car on which she was born, is the yellow and brown striped baby sister of Slimey. She was born in Season 26 (1994–1995) to Dusty and Eartha to demonstrate the pressures that come with becoming an elder sibling and how to cope with it through Slimey's actions to his new younger sister. This action by Jim Henson has periodically dealt with the theme of becoming an elder sibling as many of the young viewers watching "Sesame Street" would be going through that change. The most recent version of this is the birth of Curly Bear, the younger sister of Baby Bear in 2003.
Robin Kohn
Robin Kohn Glazer (born January 4, 1962) is a former child actress noted for providing the voice of Lucy van Pelt in various "Peanuts" animation films during the early 1970s in "Snoopy Come Home", "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", and "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown". Later on, her sister Melanie Kohn would inherit the role from her. She is now a real estate broker in Marin County, California and does some voiceover and acting work under the name Robin Kohn Glazer.
Brianne Siddall
Brianne "Bree" Siddall (born August 25, 1963 in Encino, California), also known under her stage names of Jetta E. Bumpy, Ian Hawk, Jetta Bird, and Brianne Brozey, is an American voice actress. She is known for voicing Tommy Himi, Koromon, and Calumon in over a hundred episodes of the popular anime "Digimon" and its video games, as well as for voicing Tsukasa and Elk in the anime ".hack//Sign" and the ".hack" games. In the late 1990s Siddall, under the stage name Ian Hawk, was hired to perform as the voice of Myōjin Yahiko for the Sony dub of the "Ruroni Kenshin" anime and OAV, which premiered in the United States under the title "Samurai X." This initial attempt to market the series proved unsuccessful and the series was later re-dubbed by Media Blasters, who chose to hire Bang Zoom! Entertainment to redub the series. She also voiced characters for Pioneer and Bang Zoom! including Kunikida in "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", Ruby and Rina in "Saint Tail". In live-action voice-over, she voiced Impus, the infant version of the character Prince Olympius, in "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue", and Circuit the robotic owl in "Power Rangers Time Force". She voiced Jim Hawking, the kid crew member in "Outlaw Star", which had a run on Cartoon Network's Toonami and Adult Swim programming blocks, She also voiced main character Al Izuruha in the "Mobile Suit Gundam" OAV, "".
She provided the voice of the toy Sage of Fijit Friends.
List of Family Guy cast members
"Family Guy" is an American animated sitcom that features five main voice actors, and numerous regular cast and recurring guest stars. The principal voice cast consists of show creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis (who replaced Lacey Chabert after the first season [her last episode is "Holy Crap," now marketed as the second episode of season two]), Seth Green, and Mike Henry. Recurring voice actors include Patrick Warburton, Adam West, John G. Brennan, Nicole Sullivan and Jennifer Tilly, and repeat guest stars include Phyllis Diller, Charles Durning, Rush Limbaugh, James Woods and Phil LaMarr.
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar is one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer Simpson for not being able to pay a pledge in a "Simpsons" season 11 episode, "". Oscar crashes through the window of the church Homer is hiding in, and demands the money while Elmo, who was hiding in the trash can with him, tells Homer he knows where he lives. He also appears in "Trash of the Titans" in a "The Simpsons" season 9 episode.
Greg Dulcie
Greg Dulcie is an American voice actor who works at Funimation. He has provided voices for a number of English-language versions of Japanese anime films and television series. He is best known as the voice of title character BTX, Dominic LeCoulte from the well received series, Ulysses Simpson Grant from the anime movie The Empire of Corpses, and Smoker from the internationally acclaimed "One Piece" series.
Robert Stigwood
However, during this period Stigwood had another pop flop when he tried to promote a singer called 'Oscar'. Oscar's real name was Paul Beuselinck; his stage name was taken from his father, Oscar Beuselinck, a music business solicitor whose clients included the Who. Oscar had been the pianist in Screaming Lord Sutch's backing band, The Savages. Under the name 'Paul Dean' he released two singles in 1965–66. As 'Oscar' he cut four singles for Stigwood's Reaction label. The first, "Club of Lights" managed to scrape into the lower reaches of the Radio London Fab 40 chart. The second Oscar single was a version of a Pete Townshend song, "Join My Gang", which the Who never recorded. His third single, a novelty song called "Over the Wall We Go" (1967) was written and produced by a young David Bowie, and it gained a degree of notoriety because of Bowie's tongue-in-cheek lyrics concerning escaped prisoners and incompetent cops, which satirised a rash of highly publicised prison break-outs in the UK.
Mrs. Grouch
Mrs. Grouch lives in Illinois. Oscar remembers her gift of a tattered sneaker to him as a baby fondly enough to sing about it in his signature song, "I Love Trash". Her name is mentioned in "Sesame Street Magazine" issue 249 (November 1995).
Michael Gough (voice actor)
Michael J. Gough (born December 3, 1956 in San Jose, California) is an American voice actor, singer and musician. He is known for providing the voices of Deckard Cain in the "Diablo" series of video games, Gopher in the "Winnie the Pooh" franchise and Shrek in the "Shrek" video game franchise.
Pam Arciero
Pam Arciero (born May 8, 1954), is a puppeteer and voice-over artist who portrays Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend, Grundgetta, on the PBS children's television series "Sesame Street".
Julianne Buescher
Julianne Buescher (born February 4, 1965) is an American actress, voice actress, writer, singer and puppeteer who performs in film, television, radio, and on stage. As a voice artist, she is known for many roles including Anko Mitarashi on "Naruto". Buescher is also a puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company, appearing with CeeLo Green as "Piddles the Pug" at the 2011 Grammy Awards and as the same character among others in the improvisational adult puppet show "Puppet Up!". She also has worked for both "Sesame Street" and "The Muppets".
Oscar the Grouch
The fumetti comic "Twisted Toyfare Theater" once featured Oscar in an issue in which he sings a variation of his "I Love Trash" song about Wesley Snipes' movies. In the end, Wesley Snipes (as Blade) decapitates him.
Lex Lang
Lex Lang (born November 12, 1965 in Hollywood, California) is a 2x Emmy Award winning American voice actor and director who has provided voices for a number of cartoons, anime, and video games. His main roles in anime include Goemon Ishikawa XIII in "Lupin the Third", Sagara Sanosuke in "Rurouni Kenshin", Genjo Sanzo in "Saiyuki Reload", and Ryosuke Takahashi in "Initial D". He also voices Marechiyo Omaeda in "Bleach", Hayate Gekko in "Naruto", Cruhteo in "Aldnoah.Zero", and Sōichirō Kuzuki in "". In animation, he voiced Doctor Doom in "". He has many video game roles, including Dr. Neo Cortex in "Crash Bandicoot" and the Grim Creeper in "Skylanders".
Lang is married to fellow voice actor Sandy Fox. They live in Studio City, California. In 1998 they co-founded the Love Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization which creates educational materials for children on the importance of recycling, world water awareness, and the preservation of the planet. They also created Love Planet Productions, which includes several multimedia projects such as anime presentation shows, toddler shows and products, and Zen programming. In 2006, they launched a bottled spring water business called H2Om Water with Intention, which has received recognition as a sponsor at several events including Sting's Rainforest Foundation Carnegie Hall Concert and the Elevate Film Festival. Lang is also a Deepak Chopra meditation instructor.