Corey Burton: Difference between revisions

Corey Burton began his voice career at age 17, in an imitation performance of voice actor Hans Conreid for Disney. He studied radio acting with the legendary Daws Butler for four years, and went on to work with nearly all of the original Hollywood radio actors in classic-style radio dramas. He has also done numerous cartoon series for other networks, such as [[Cartoon Network (Creator)|Cartoon Network]].

* Dale and Zipper in ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animationanimation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''

* Gruffi Gummi and Toadwart in ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Animation)|Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' (following the death of Bill Scott).

* Sigmund Brock in ''[[American Dragon Jake Long (Animation)|American Dragon Jake Long]]''.

* [[Classic Disney Shorts (Animation)|Ranger Woodlore]], [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Captain Hook]], [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Grumpy]], [[Fantasia (Disney)|Chernabog]], [[The Black Cauldron (Disney)|the Horned King]], [[Hercules (Disney film)|Zeus]], and several other characters from ''[[House of Mouse (Animation)|House of Mouse]]''.

* Mole in ''[[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire (Disney)|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' and ''Atlantis: Milo's Return''.

* Onus in ''[[Treasure Planet (Disney)|Treasure Planet]]''

* Captain Hook in ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Return to Never Land]]'' and ''[[Jake and Thethe NeverlandNever PiratesLand (Animation)Pirates|Jake and The Neverland Pirates]]''

* Dale, [[Fantasia (Disney)|Yen Sid]], [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Captain Hook]], [[Tron (Film)|Sark, MCP,]] [[Mulan (Disney)|Shan Yu]], [[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|Flotsam and Jetsam]], and [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|the White Rabbit]] in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Franchise)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' series

** DiZ{{spoiler|/Ansem The Wise}} in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts]] [[Updated Rerelease|Re:]] [[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (Video Game)|Chain of Memories]]'' and ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep]]''

* V.V. Argost in ''[[The Secret Saturdays (Animation)|The Secret Saturdays]]''

* Zeus in ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|God of War]]''.

* Hugo Strange in ''[[Batman: Arkham City (Video Game)|Batman Arkham City]]''.

In addition, Burton has done extensive voice work for Disney including feature animations, theme parks, interactive sections of the company, and attractions at the Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, and Tokyo Disney Resort. In fact, regarding the Floridian resort, he was also one of two narrators in a [[The Nineties|1990s]] PC application called ''[[Walt Disney World Explorer]]'', which was a [[Point and Click]] "edutainment" title that had slideshows, videos, audio descriptions and even a trivia [[Mini Game|side game]] that was all about Disney World. (Specifically, he was the male narrator of the game; the other narrator was a woman.) He also provides the "Feature Presentation" voice on numerous Disney videos. He also overdubbed the voice of ''[[Fantasia (Disney)|Fantasia]]'' MC Deems Taylor for a 1980s release, as Taylor's original soundtrack had deteriorated.

Corey Burton is also known to audiences for his role as Brainiac in the [[DCAU (Franchise)|DC animated universe]]. He appeared as Brainiac in six episodes of ''[[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Superman the Animated Series]]'', two episodes of ''[[Static Shock (Animation)|Static Shock]]'', two episodes of ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]'', five episodes of ''Justice League Unlimited'', and three episodes of ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (AnimationTV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]''. He has also reprised the role in the MMO ''[[DC Universe Online (Video Game)|DC Universe Online]]''.

Corey Burton is also known to ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)|Star Wars]]'' fans as the [[Poor Man's Substitute|audio double]] for Christopher Lee as Count Dooku in ''[[Westerm Animation/Star Wars Clone Wars|Star Wars Clone Wars]]'' and several ''Star Wars'' video games (likewise for ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Franchise)|Kingdom Hearts]] [[Video Game Remake|Re]]:Chain of Memories'', doubling over for Lee as DiZ from ''Kingdom Hearts II'' and ''Birth By Sleep''). He appeared as Ziro the Hutt and General Lothsome in ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars (Animation)|Star Wars the Clone Wars]]'' and also appeared as Captain Mar Tuuk and Cad Bane and reprised his roles as Count Dooku, Ziro The Hutt, and General Lothsome in the movie's television adaptation.

Also well-known to the ''[[Transformers (Franchise)|Transformers]]'' universe as the voice of Shockwave, Sunstreaker, Brawn and Spike Witwicky in ''[[The Transformers (Animationanimation)|The Transformers]]'' and Megatron, Ratchet, Ironhide and Longarm Prime/Shockwave in ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]''.

He has also played dozens of characters on ''[[Adventures in Odyssey (Radio)|Adventures in Odyssey]]'', his most frequent as Edwin's assistant Walter Shakespeare.