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Jess Harnell (Born December 23 1963) is an American voice actor and singer, best known for voicing Wakko Warner in ''Animaniacs'', Dr. Finklestein in ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', Ironhide in the ''Transformers'' film series, Chilly in ''Doc McStuffins'', Cedric the Sorcerer in ''Sofia the First'', and Crash Bandicoot in the video game franchise of the same name. Harnell has been the announcer for ''America's Funniest Home Videos'' since 1998. ==Early life and career== Harnell was born at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Teaneck, the son of Joe Harnell, a jazz composer, and Alice Harnell.〔(Joe Harnell and Ira Ira Skutch Counterpoint - The Journey of a Music Man )〕〔Zayas, Javier. ("'Wakko Yaks: A Conversation with Jess Harnell' by Javier Zayas" ), Fulle Circle Magazine, April 17, 2015. Accessed June 17, 2015. "Javier Zayas: So you were born in Teaneck, New Jersey? Jess Harnell: Actually it was Englewood Hospital, but right near Teaneck and that's where I lived so we'll stick with that."〕 In 1989, Harnell provided the voices of Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox for the Splash Mountain attraction at Disneyland Park, reviving the roles last played in 1946 by Johnny Lee and James Baskett, respectively, in the film ''Song of the South''. Harnell also recorded some new character dialogue for the subsequent Walt Disney World version of the attraction. He was later called in to reprise these roles for the 2011 video game ''Kinect Disneyland Adventures''. In 1993, he went on to voice Wakko Warner on ''Animaniacs'' Dr. Finklestein on ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'', and Secret Squirrel on ''2 Stupid Dogs''. From 1994 to 1996, he supplied the voices of Sewer Urchin, the Human Bullet and Chief Louder in the animated series ''The Tick''. Also, in 1996, he was Hunter on Road Rovers. One of Harnell's next appearances was as the principal stormtrooper in the 1997 Star Wars fan film ''Troops'', a parody of the Cops TV series set in the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe. Harnell voiced Joe Tabootie on the Nickelodeon show ''ChalkZone'', Crash Bandicoot in ''Crash Tag Team Racing'', ''Crash of the Titans'', and ''Crash: Mind over Mutant'', Lo-Lo in ''Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex'', Spyro the Dragon in ''Spyro: A Hero's Tail'' and ''Spyro: Shadow Legacy'', Marlin in ''Finding Nemo'', Jerry in ''Totally Spies'', Linguni in ''Pucca'' and reprising his role as Doctor Finklestein in ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' video game spin-offs, as well as in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. In 2005 he voiced Buzz Blister in Tom & Jerry: Blast off to Mars and numerous other characters in subsequent Tom & Jerry features. He also voiced wild and energetic Cro Magnon Doubledome from the Longhair and Doubledome cartoon shorts for Cartoon Network's Big Pick (also starring Daniel Davis as Longhair). In 2001, he was the singing voice of Buster on ''Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure''. He also voiced Captain Hero on Comedy Central's animated comedy ''Drawn Together'' and he also does the voices of Wooton Bassett, and Bennett Charles on the radio drama ''Adventures in Odyssey'', as well as playing the lead role of Finnian Jones for the ''Lamplighter Theatre'' Radio Drama. He also made appearances on ''Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad''. His voice also made an appearance in ''NASCAR Rumble'', and is credited for in-game commentary in the follow-up game ''Rumble Racing''. Jess also replaced Brad Garrett as the voice of Fatso during season 3 of ''The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper''. He also guest starred in ''Samurai Jack'' as he voiced Ringo and a waitress in the episode "Jack Under the Sea". In 2007, he replaced Neil Flynn as the voice of The Plumber in ''Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction'' and ''Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time''. He also voiced the Smuggler in that popular series. In that same year, he voiced the characters of Ironhide and Barricade in the Michael Bay-directed ''Transformers'', making him the only voice actor to play both an Autobot (Ironhide) and a Decepticon (Barricade) in that film. He returned to voice Ironhide once again in ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transformers Movie Voice Cast Revealed! )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Transformers" Movie Credits )〕 and ''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''. He voiced a character in ''Up'' and replaced Brad Garrett as the voice of Professor Buffo in ''Special Agent Oso''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jess Harnell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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