Michael Bell

He's jealous that Keith always got to form the head.

Michael Bell (born July 30, 1938) is an American voice actor and occasional screen actor. Over the course of his prolific voice acting career, some of his most recognized roles include Duke from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Lance from Voltron, Zan the Wonder Twin from Superfriends, Raziel from Legacy of Kain, and Drew Pickles and Chaz Finster from Rugrats.

In terms of screen acting, Bell has appeared as three different characters in two Star Trek series. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Screen Actor's Guild and is the godfather of actor Steve Guttenberg.

Roles

The Transformers

• Bombshell
• Bonecrusher ("The Autobot Run" only)
• Brainstorm
• Doctor Fujiyama the Famous Scientist
• First Aid
• Gort
• Hi-Q (Powermasters commercial only)
• Junkyard ("Junkion 1")
• Killer Carp (Battle Beasts commercial only)
• Laserbeak ("Transport to Oblivion" only)
• Prowl
• Primon
• Rad (Action Masters commercial only)
• Scrapper
• Sideswipe
• Space-Age Jack
• Swoop

All Hail Megatron motion comic

• Scrapper
• Skywarp

Transformers: Rescue Bots

• High Tide

Incidentals

• Newsreel narrator (Now and Then)

Transformers: Devastation

• Sideswipe
• Scrapper

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2001
• TFcon 2007
• Auto Assembly 2012

Notes

• Bell has auditioned for several modern Transformers series, including the live-action films and Animated (where he auditioned for both Prowl and Swoop), but alas, it was not to be. He also auditioned for the roles of Ratchet and General (later Agent) Fowler in Transformers: Prime, but lost the roles to Jeffrey Combs and Ernie Hudson, respectively. He finally returned to the franchise after nearly a decade of trying in Rescue Bots as High Tide. If at first you don't succeed...
• Bell was one of the eight voice actors featured in Shout! Factory's cast reunion in the 25th Anniversary "Matrix of Leadership" Collection of the original series.
• Bell managed to voice about 15 characters utilizing 3 or maybe 4 different voices.
• Bell also attempted to produce and voice direct a motion comic adaptation based on the All Hail Megatron series from IDW Publishing, he would've reprised his role as Scrapper and also taken on the role of Skywarp.

External links

• Michael Bell at the Internet Movie Database

Interviews

• April 21, 2012 Interview with Michael Bell at Geewunner.com (archived)
• September 14, 2024 The Voice of Prowl: Interview with Michael Bell | Transformers G1 | 40th Anniversary on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel