Starting with the Monchichi's in 1979, I was fortunate enough to play the ongoing part of Thumbki, the baby Monchichi. I have played both recurring, regular and occasional characters in the series below. Being an only child, I was always doing strange character voices for myself and even having conversations with them. Thanks to the intuition of Joseph Barbera, who may have saved my soul by pulling me out of my network executive job and taking me to Hanna-Barbera because he thought I was too damn funny ... I got my first chance and the chances kept coming. I also got the inspiration to voice-direct TV animated shows and some have said I changed the way animation tracks were directed, taking more time and paying more attention to the actors and the compositional impact of their readings, much like feature animation work. In that I started out to be an on-camera actor, when given the chance, I have not hesitated to take the leap. I will write more in the following weeks, but for now, just know my voice or face is somewhere within each of these productions.
