Charlie Adler

Charles Michael "Charlie" Adler (born October 2, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American voice actor and voice director. Two time Annie Award Nominee Charlie Adler, recently named one of the "top thirteen all time voice-over artists" by Animation Magazine and "Voice Of The Decade" by Animation World News, is at the undisputed top of the world of voice for animation. He is also the director, writer and star of independent live action movie No Prom For Cindy, currently screening on the festival circuit.

One of the hottest and most sought after voice directors in the entertainment business, Adler directed Whoopi Goldberg, Andrea Martin and David Spade in the feature Rugrats The Movie as well as Susan Sarandon, Debbie Reynolds and John Lithgow in the feature sequel Rugrats In Paris. He was the voice director for The Wild Thornberrys; Rugrats the series; Rugrats Kwanza; the cast of 100 Deeds For Eddie McDowd; Nickelodeon's Rocket Power and The Brothers Flub. He's also directed pilots Psycho Ferret and As Told by Ginger for highly regarded studio Klasky Csupo.

As an actor, Charlie Adler starred on Broadway in Torch Song Trilogy as a successor to Harvey Feinstein. He also toured in the first national company, for which he earned a Helen Hayes Award best actor nomination. Off-Broadway, Charlie starred in Family Business at the Astor Place Theater for a year, as well as appearing in Alan Albert's acclaimed improv company, The Proposition. Adler co-starred with Imogene Coca and Rita Rudner in Once Upon A Mattress, with Professor Irwin Corey in Neil Simon's God's Favorite and toured as Edward Albee's psycho in Zoo Story. In addition, he has played Israel Horowitz's Hero in Dr Zero as well as the Emcee in Cabaret.

On television, Charlie was a regular on very short-lived Redd Foxx Show, assumed the roles of three generations of sons for PBS in Then And Now, and an obsessive photographer in First & Ten. Adler has also been a familiar face in over 100 television commercials for Coca-Cola, McDonald's, IBM, G.E., Big Red Gum and Safeguard Soap. As a writer, Charlie has co-written several Tiny Toon episodes and his critically acclaimed one main show There Used To Be Fireflies won him a Dramalogue Award For Best Actor. E!, Entertainment Tonight, TV Guide, PBS, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Daily Post have profiled him, so too the Times. He's been a guest on the Joan Rivers Show and in 1991 Charlie was one of hundreds of guests invited by Barbara Bush to a White House reception in honor of their contributions to the First Lady's literacy program.

Charlie Adler has performed in the following roles:

AAAHH!!! Real Monsters - Ickis
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius - Junkman
Disney's Aladdin TV series - Mechanicles
Bonkers - Mr. Doodles
Brandy and Mr. Whiskers - Mr. Whiskers
Bravestarr - Deputy Fuzz, Tex Hex
Capitol Critters - Jammet
Cool World: As the voice of Nails the Spider.
Cow and Chicken - Cow, Chicken, Cousin Boneless Chicken, The Red Guy, I.R. Baboon
Dino Riders - Rulon Hammerhead
Darkwing Duck - Andy Ape
Dave the Barbarian - Gormel, Molly, Jester Ghost
Earthworm Jim TV series - Professor Monkey-For-a-Head
Fallout game series - Harold
The Flintstone Kids - Cavey Jr.
GI Joe A Real American Hero - Low-Light
G.I. Joe Resolute - Cobra Commander, Hard Master, Stalker, Flint, Gung-Ho
G.I. Joe Renegades - Cobra Commander
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto - Krongarr
Hero Factory - Corroder
Jem and the Holograms - Eric Raymond, Techrat and Zipper
Loonatics Unleashed - Optimatus
Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - Super-Skrull
The Mighty Ducks - Dr. Droid
Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures - Batbat, Witch, additional voices
My Little Pony - Spike the dragon (TV specials and My Little Pony and Friends
Pet Alien - Dinko, Flip, Dr Daffodil, Gepetto
Planescape: Torment - Ignus
Project Gee Ke R - Dr. Maston
The Replacements - Prime Minister Ricobo
Rocko's Modern Life - Ed Bighead, Bev Bighead, Mr. and Mrs. Fathead, Gladys the Big Hippo Lady, George Wolfe, Grandpa Wolfe, Mr. Dupette
Sacrifice - Charnel
Sonic the Hedgehog - Snively
The Smurfs - Nat Smurf
Shuriken School - Principle of Shuriken, Principle of Katana, Tetsuo, Cleaning Lady, Vlad
The Superhero Squad Show - Captain Britain, Doctor Doom, Doombots, Melter, Sabretooth, Wrecker, Plantman, Super-Skrull
Swat Kats - T-Bone (Chance Furlong), Murray, Fango, Zed, various others
El Tigre - Mano Negra
Timeless Tales - The Ugly Duckling
Tiny Toon Adventures - Buster Bunny and Roderick Rat
Tom and Jerry Kids - Dripple
The Transformers - Decepticon Targetmaster Triggerhappy, Silverbolt, Duros, Vorath and Dirk
Transformers live action movies - Starscream
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat - Felix the Cat
Wizards of Waverly Place - A Talking Report Card
Wolverine and the X-Men - Mojo
The Wizard of Oz - The Cowardly Lion.

Charlie Adler provides examples of the following tropes:

Acting for Two: Quite a lot. Overlaps with Talking to Himself.
Ax Crazy: Most of his villainous characters are like this. Those played for laughs are over the top hilarious, those played for more dramatic and serious works are downright frightening.
Berserk Button: He became very upset that he didn't get a major role in Animaniacs, so he left Tiny Toons before the end of production. Luckily there were only 4 episodes left.
- Also it's worth noting that many of his characters display this to various degrees.
Boisterous Bruiser: as T-Bone from Swat Kats.
The Cameo: His character Starscream has only 2 lines in the 2007 Transformers movie. And yet, this role brought him much fame.
Chewing the Scenery
Cross-Dressing Voices: As Cow in Cow and Chicken, Bev Bighead in Rocko and a female doctor in Tiny Toons. He also uses his Cow voice whenever Buster Bunny crossdresses, and used it for Gladys the Hippo Lady in "Sand In Your Navel".
The Danza: played a recurring character called Mr. Adler in Beavis and Butthead. Also played the Adler Tree in Cow and Chicken.
Evil Is Hammy
Evil Laugh: He does some excellent ones as Mechanicles, Dr. Doom and the Red Guy.
Evil Twin: He plays Buster Bunny and his evil counterpart Roderick Rat in Tiny Toon Adventures.
Fake Brit: As Vlad the Russian teacher in Shuriken School and Snively in Sonic the Hedgehog.
Gratuitous Spanish: As Super Cow in Cow and Chicken
Guttural Growler: As Starscream, Cobra Commander and Dr. Doom.
Large Ham: Many of his characters tend to be over dramatic as hell.
Man of a Thousand Voices: He's like a new Mel Blanc both because he plays a junior version of Bugs Bunny in Tiny Toons and because he plays five main characters in Cow and Chicken like Mel Blanc played all the Looney Tunes characters.
No Indoor Voice: Most of his characters tend to do a lot of yelling.
Non-Singing Voice: Subverted in the Tiny Toons movie where he did the singing for Buster Bunny. However, Buster's yodelling musical number was done by Rob Paulsen.
The Other Darrin: Replaced Thom Adcox as the voice of Felix in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat. Also replaced Jeff Bergman as Yosemite Sam for 1 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures.
Pigeonholed Voice Actor: Energetic goofs (Buster, Ickis, Chicken) and overdramatic villains (Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, The Red Guy, Mechanicles, Mr. Big Head) mostly. He also often plays annoying idiotic characters (Irwin the penguin, Screwball Squirrel, Cow) and unexcited boring characters who sound like Droopy (Dripple, Mr Buttons, Snively).
Playing Against Type: His role as the current voice of Cobra Commander from the G.I. Joe franchise, especially in Resolute.
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Relationship Voice Actor: Has played roles alongside Tom Kenny and Tress MacNeille many times.
Shocking Voice Identity Reveal: It's suprising that all the listed characters are voiced by just one man.
Skyward Scream
Soft-Spoken Sadist: As the Red Guy.
Smug Snake: As Eric Raymond, the Big Bad of Jem.
Star-Making Role: in Jem, My Little Pony (the original 1980s series), or Tiny Toon Adventures. The Transformers film series would further this.
Talking to Himself: In Cow and Chicken, he plays the three main characters. In I Am Weasel he plays both Baboon and the Red Guy. In Rocko's Modern Life he plays both of the Bigheads. And in Tiny Toons when Buster Bunny and Roderick Rat talk to each other.
Too Dumb to Live: I.R. Baboon and some of his minor characters.
Villain Song: His weasel characters sing a short one about Pete in Disney's The Prince and the Pauper. He also sings parts of Sky Pirates as Maddog in Tale Spin.