Tom Wyner

Last updated

Tom Wyner
Other namesAbe Lasser, Tom Weiner, Abe Lesser, Phil Matthews
OccupationVoice actor, producer, director, writer
Years active1974–present

Thomas Halperin Wyner, or just Tom Wyner is a voice actor, producer, director, and writer born on June 16, 1947.

Contents

Career

Tom Wyner was a recurring voice actor in the Power Rangers franchise. He also wrote "Green with Evil - Part III; The Rescue" which is considered the weakest episode of the iconic five part episode as well as "Calamity Kimberly". He was let go when Disney took over the Power Rangers franchise.

When he attended Power Morphicon 2018, Tom Wyner denied that he was the voice of Master Vile in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and confirmed that the character was actually voiced by Simon Prescott. [1]

He also voiced Death in Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, and also voiced True Dracula in the latter game. He was later replaced in Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles by Patrick Seitz.

Tom is also famous for his work as M. Bison in both Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie and Street Fighter II V, the Puppet Master in Ghost in the Shell, and Master Vile in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Filmography

Anime

Video games

Live action

Movies

Writer

Miscellaneous crew

Related Research Articles

<i>Power Rangers Turbo</i> Television series

Power Rangers Turbo is an American television series and the fifth season of the Power Rangers franchise. The show was prefaced with the franchise's second film, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. As with its predecessors, Power Rangers Turbo is based on one of the entries of the 20th Super Sentai series; in Turbo's case, the source is Gekisou Sentai Carranger. The series introduced a child actor as the new Blue Ranger, and featured the departure of the long-running characters Zordon and Alpha 5, as well the veteran team of Rangers and introduced four new characters to take the place of the veteran Rangers. This was Jason David Frank's last appearance in the Power Rangers franchise until Power Rangers Dino Thunder in 2004. The fifth series also marked the final regular appearances of Johnny Yong Bosch - who joined the franchise in mid-1994, and Catherine Sutherland in late 1995 and also the last appearance of Nakia Burrise - who appeared in the Season 3 final episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers in 1995, before joining the main cast in February and April 1996 in the Alien Rangers miniseries and Power Rangers Zeo.

Ardwight Chamberlain American voice actor and screen writer

Ardwight Chamberlain is an American voice actor and screen writer currently living in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the voice of Vorlon Ambassador Kosh on the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. He has also written a number of episodes for the animated TV show Digimon: Digital Monsters, has appeared on the game show Jeopardy!, and has written and provided voices for the English dubbed versions of several Japanese anime.

<i>Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds</i> 1981 Spanish-Japanese animated TV series

Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is a Spanish-Japanese children's animated television series that adapts the classic 1844 Alexandre Dumas story of d'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers, produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation, that was first broadcast on MBS in Japan in 1981–82.

Doug Stone (voice actor) Canadian voice actor

Doug Stone is a voice actor who is best known for providing the English voice of Psycho Mantis from the popular video game Metal Gear Solid, as well as the voice of Matt Trakker and several other characters in M.A.S.K., and Dragonborg in Beetleborgs Metallix.

Barbara Goodson is an American voice actress who has done voice-over work in cartoons and shows. Her best-known role was providing the English dub voice of the main villain Empress Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers franchise, starting with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and including Power Rangers Zeo, Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, and Power Rangers in Space. Other Power Rangers characters she has played include Prince Sprocket and Orbus in Power Rangers Zeo, and Mandilok in Power Rangers Wild Force. She also voiced Red Fraggle and Wingnut in Jim Henson's cartoon Fraggle Rock, Ladyborg in Beetleborgs Metallix, and Mother Talzin on Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the last of which she won a Best Actress award from the website Behind The Voice Actors. She also voiced in HBO's Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Tom and FLCL as Naota. For her work in the series CloudBread, in which she is a cast member as Wooley, Ruiz, Grandma, and Teacher Ellie, she was nominated for Best Children's Programming in 2011 for an Annie Award. She was also awarded an Earphones Award for narrating Blair Clemons in the Time/Warner book On a Night Like This.

Robert Axelrod (actor) American actor

Robert Axelrod, also credited as Axel Roberts and Myron Mensah, was an American actor. He was primarily known for his voice work, which included Digimon, having started voice acting for the English-language versions of anime in 1980; providing the voice of Lord Zedd, the main villain of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; and Finster, the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers monster maker. He also portrayed a sympathetic doctor, Jennings, in The Blob. He also portrayed a Paul McCartney look-alike on the popular sitcom Family Matters, and later in his career appeared in several productions by comedy duo Tim & Eric.

Edie Mirman is an American voice actress.

Dave Mallow is a retired American voice actor.

Michael John Sorich is an American actor, writer and director.

Paul Schrier American actor

Paul Schrier II is an American actor, director, and artist. He is known for his role of Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier in the Power Rangers series. He portrayed the character for seven seasons from 1993–1999, returning in 2011 for the eighteenth season of Power Rangers Samurai, and was the last original cast member to leave the show. Schrier has also done some directing work, directing a few Power Rangers episodes, 16 episodes of the Hello Kitty animated series, and a short film, "An Easy Thing". He is also an artist, having worked on the comic book The Red Star. In 2017, he starred in his first animation voice role as Flonk in Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords.

Michael McConnohie American voice actor

Michael McConnohie is an American voice actor, writer and director who has provided many voice roles in movies, anime, and video games. He and fellow actress Melodee Spevack run a production company called VoxWorks. Some of his major works include the Narrator on Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and Hunter x Hunter, The Necromancer in Diablo II, Azulongmon in Digimon, Gork in Masked Rider, Keiichi Ikari in Paranoia Agent, Rolf Emerson in Robotech, Manzou the Saw in Samurai Champloo, Cosmos and Tracks in Transformers, Hot Shot / Ironhide in Transformers: Robots in Disguise, D in Vampire Hunter D, Chief Inquisitor Margulis in Xenosaga and Charles zi Britannia in Code Geass.

Steve Kramer is an American actor who has provided voices for English language versions of Japanese anime films, television series and video games. He has also done voice acting for various Power Rangers series in the past, with the best-known of those roles being the voice of Darkonda in Power Rangers in Space. His wife, Melora Harte, is a voice actress. Kramer has also been credited as Steve Kraemer, Steven Kramer, Drew Levi Thomas, Drew Lexi Thomas, and Drew Thomas. Kramer is usually cast in the role of wise old men. He is also a voice director and script writer, adapting many anime and video games.

Kim Strauss is an American voice actor and best-selling author with his children's book Kalan the Mighty Warrior: Book One – Braxus the Owl: Guardian of the Forest And He is The Voice of Ninjor in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers"

Mike Reynolds is an American retired voice actor and writer.

Rebecca Forstadt American actress

Rebecca Forstadt is an American voice actress, best known for playing young female roles in various animated series. After studying theater at Orange Coast College, in Costa Mesa, California, Forstadt began her acting career by working at Knott's Berry Farm's Bird Cage Theater, performing melodramas, often as the damsel in distress character. Later, she went to Hollywood where she worked as a wardrobe mistress on such television shows as The White Shadow and Hill Street Blues, as well as for the film S.O.B.. She also spent several years doing live theater in the Los Angeles area. Most notably, she won some recognition for her portrayal of the character Josette in the world premiere of Eugène Ionesco's Tales for People Under 3 Years of Age at the Stages Theatre Center in 1982. She starred in several low-budget movies such as Mugsy's Girls, with Ruth Gordon and Laura Branigan, and Round Numbers with Kate Mulgrew, Samantha Eggar, and Shani Wallis. She also appeared as a television actress in Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, and L.A. Law. Her voice acting breakthrough came when she landed the leading role of Lynn Minmei in the English version of Robotech, the popular anime series of the 1980s. Since then, she has voiced hundreds of other anime characters like Nunnally Lamperouge in Code Geass, Rika Furude in When They Cry and Tima from and Monomi from Danganronpa 2 Goodbye Despair Metropolis and has branched into non-anime cartoons, live-action shows, commercials and radio work, and has performed background voices for movies such as Antz, Dr. Dolittle, and The Santa Clause.

Eddie Frierson American voice actor and writer

Edward Davies Frierson is an American voice actor and writer. He has provided voices for such films as Wreck-It Ralph, Hotel Transylvania, The Princess and the Frog, ParaNorman, Curious George, Tangled the video games Medal of Honor: Airborne and Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes and the animated television series MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance.

Kerrigan Patrick Mahan is an American voice actor. He has had voice roles in Lensman, Zillion, Vampire Hunter D and Crying Freeman, as Goldar in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo, Jeb the talking dog in VR Troopers, and the original Magna Defender in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. He also played the voice role of Monitor Org in Power Rangers Wild Force.

Scott Page-Pagter was an American voice actor and television producer, known for his work in producing over 300 episodes of the Power Rangers series, starting with season 4.

Melora Harte is an American voice actress. In addition to voice acting in anime, she also adapted and directed several anime dubs. Her husband, Steve Kramer, is also a voice actor.

Simon Prescott is an American voice actor who is best known for his work in the anime and film industries. Notable roles include Dr. Laughton in Metropolis and Aritomo Yamagata in Rurouni Kenshin.

References

  1. PowerMorphicon (25 August 2018). "VOICE ACTORS PANEL POWER MORPHICON 2018" (YouTube). Power Morphicon 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021.
  2. "Behind The Voice Actors – Tom Wyner". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  3. Dimps; Polygon Magic. Seven Samurai 20XX. Sammy Studios. Scene: Ending credits, 5:09:51 in, CAST.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)