![]() ![]() He voiced Pig George in the live action animal film My Brother the Pig. Starting with gigs on The Wild Thornberrys, he voiced an assortment of animal characters, which would become one of his specialties. He also had an on-screen recurring role as Phil Berg in the Nickelodeon sitcom series The Journey of Allen Strange where he plays a crazed journalist who tries to expose Allen's identity as a space alien. On the live-action front, he became the co-host and announcer for the game show Shop 'til You Drop which spanned several hundred episodes when it resumed broadcasting on the Family Channel and on the Pax television network, until a series retool in 2003 it was produced by Stone Stanley Entertainment, which had earlier co-produced Legends of the Hidden Temple. He had a lead role as Numbuh 4 in Codename: Kids Next Door. In 2001, he added voice roles for Sanjay, Binky and other characters for The Fairly OddParents and co-starred as Mandy's father on Billy and Mandy. He voiced starring characters Og in Mike, Lu & Og and Bagheera in the second season of Jungle Cubs. He did voice work for various episodic and recurring cartoon characters in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Powerpuff Girls. His first feature film voice-over was on the basketball-themed Looney Tunes film Space Jam where he voiced Daffy Duck, Taz and Toro. He got involved in voice-over work his first major character was Cow & Chicken's dad in the Cow & Chicken and I Am Weasel cartoons. ![]() Early voice acting career īaker moved to Southern California about a year before the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He reprised his role of Olmec again when Legends was revived in 2021 on The CW. In 2016, he and Fogg reprised their roles for a live action television movie adaptation of the show. When host Kirk Fogg moved to Los Angeles, he was encouraged to move there as well. The show lasted three seasons and 120 episodes. During parts of the show, he would narrate a legend, and then ask the kid contestants related trivia questions. He portrayed Olmec with a "big, booming, loud, god-like voice". His first major experience on national television was on the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1993 to 1995, where he was not only the announcer, but also the giant talking rock-god Olmec. In 1989, Baker moved to Orlando, Florida, where he worked on an improv sketch comedy show titled The Anacomical Players at EPCOT Center's Wonders of Life pavilion and joined various projects for Disney and Universal Studios. After graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1986, he was involved in many community theater projects, including a sketch comedy movie that aired on local public television. He was involved in local theater productions and singing groups. ![]() īaker attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he studied philosophy, biology, fine arts, and German, the last of which he studied overseas for a year at the University of Göttingen. He graduated from University High School in 1981 and received a Boettcher Scholarship. As a child, he was a fan of Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and the music of Frank Zappa he also had an interest in insects, arthropods, and dinosaurs. He started performing at the age of nine and steadily worked in musicals, operas, plays, and stand-up comedy. He is especially known for his work on various Star Wars television series, mainly as the voice of Captain Rex and other clone troopers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: Rebels, and Star Wars: The Bad Batch.īaker was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on Aug and grew up in Greeley, Colorado. Baker's roles include animated series such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Codename: Kids Next Door, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Phineas and Ferb, Ben 10, The Legend of Korra, The 7D, and American Dad! His voice work in live-action series includes Legends of the Hidden Temple and Shop 'til You Drop, as well as films such as Space Jam and The Boxtrolls.īaker has also voiced characters in video games such as Halo, Gears of War, Viewtiful Joe, Spore, Destiny, and Overwatch. His work consists mostly of vocalizations of animals and monsters. Dee Bradley Baker (born August 31, 1962) is an American voice actor.
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