Updated January, 31, 2000
Updated some information on Maria Bamford, (below).

Voice Over Mania!!!

Welcome to Voice Over Mania. I bet you're all wondering, hey who does the voice of who, and where do they come from? When were they born? Do they have any other occupations. Well you're in luck. If you want to know all this just scroll down and find it out!!!

Name: Jim Cummings - Voice of Cat
Birthdate and Place : 1953/Youngstown, Ohio.
Bio : Jim Cummins is one of the greatest voice artists of Cartoon History. He grew up in the City of Youngstown in Ohio, and moved to New Orleans, where he became a singer. After he became a singer, be decided to be come a door to door salesman, and many other jobs had too. But then, in the early 90's, he finally got the perfect job in Anaheim, California, as a voice artist doing the voice of Lionel from "Dumbo's Circus". Then came the other works of art in the shows such as "Darkwing Duck", "Bonkers", "Goof Troop", and many other Disney Afternoon classics. After the Disney Afternoon daily routine ended on the WB, we went for many other rolls in other animated movies, especially Disney who he's been with from the very start.

Some Neat Links to Jim Cummings :
Cult of the Cummings - The website I would like to thank for the information. :o)

Name: Tom Kenny - Voice of Dog and Cliff
Birthdate and Place : 1960's-N/A
Bio : He is another excellent voice artist, but he isn't exactly a classic......yet. But he is probably a classic to Cult Comedies. Before he went in to the Voice Acting business, he went into acting in the movies, "How I got into College", "Attack of the 5"2" women", "Medussa. Dare to be truthful, and the best one he stared in "Shakes the Clown"starring Bobcat Goldthwait, and with him of course as a major character, Tom Kenny plays "Binky" The evil clown. Not only did he star in major movies, he starred in shows too. He was an original on the hit primetime show on Fox called "The Edge", and he also spent an entire "sickening" year as a host on NBC's "Friday Night Videos". Then he started to play bit roles in the shows "Brotherly Love", and David Alan Grier's sictom debacle "The Preston Episodes". Then after all the acting, now in his thirtes, he went into voice acting, where his most rememberd roll, was as Heffer on Rocko's Modern Life, and many bit roles on "Dextor's Laboritory". Last, while he is still voice acting, he joined the cast of "Mr.Show", a comedy hour show on HBO.

From Mr.Show Website : Tom's hobbies include building miniature circuses out of toothpicks and writing about himself in the third person for self-serving web sites. :o) lol.

Some Neat Links to Tom Kenny:

Mr. Show Biography - Thankyou so much for the information.

Name: Billy West - Voice of Rancid Rabbit, Randolph, and Gopher
Birthdate and Place : 1950's-N/A
Bio : An actor well-known in animation circles, Billy West is one of an increasingly popular breed -- actors heard but not seen. Tops in the voice-over business, some of West's most famous voices include those of Ren & Stimpy, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in the feature film Space Jam and the official voice of Woody Woodpecker, as well as years of providing celebrity voice impersonations on The Howard Stern Show. Some of his new animated projects include: Histerial, Catdog, Mad Jack the Pirate, Voltron, Rayman and Spy Dogs. He is also the voice of George Jetson for Radio Shack, various claymation characters, including Babe Ruth for Brisk Ice Tea and the "Red M&M" for the new millennium M&Ms campaign. A self-proclaimed Mel Blanc devotee, West recalls that even as a very small child he would listen to people's voices on the radio and imitate them...from Presley to Sinatra. Sitting in front of the TV watching Hanna-Barbera cartoons in the '50s, he would watch the credits for the names of the voice talent. "Much to my astonishment, it was usually only a couple of guys doing an army of characters. That really stuck with me," he recalls. He declares that deep down, he's fulfilling his childhood dream. He braved a brief stint doing stand-up in 1978, but quickly realized that it wasn't the life for him when he discovered he could reach far more people on the air than in person.
In 1988, he landed the role of Cecil in the cartoon Beanie and Cecil, which brought him to the attention of the creators of Ren & Stimpy, where his voice talents were used to portray the dim-bulb feline Stimpy and the psychotic chihuahua Ren. It was at that time that he supplied an array of outrageous characterizations for The Howard Stern Show.

This biography is from the Futurama Chronicles

Name : Carlos Alazraqui - Voice of Winslow/Lube
Birthdate and Place : N/A - Sacramento, CA
Bio : When it comes to voice acting, Carlos Alazraqui isn't a beginner. He is one of the classics. Not only is he a voice actor, he is a comedian, and in his voice acting career, he is mostly remembered for Rocko in "Rocko's modern life", and most of all, the annoying, but irriesistibily cute "Taco Bell Dog". Out of the many voice actors/actresses in America, he is one of the greatest Latin Voice Artists in history! And if you are all wondering what nationality he is, he's Argentinean. :o)

Links to some neat sites of Carlos :
Small Bio of Carlos
Comedysf.com Short Bio
Headshot of Carlos

Name : Maria Bamford - Voice of Shriek and most women roles.
Birthdate and Place : N/A
Bio : Research for the internet movie database : I'm not exactly sure if it's true or not, but as far as my research shows, It shows that she made two guest apperances. One was in the movie "Denial aka Something about sex" as a newscaster, and on the hit ABC (American Broadcasting Company) comedy "Dharma and Greg", and she was starring as a woman named Sandy in the episode "Death and Violins".

Something from Kristen of the very first CatDog fan page :

She mentioned that she saw Maria Bamford on Comedy Central doing a stand up routine. She mentioned she could hear Shriek in her and Maria has blonde hair and was kind of short. (I think, I have to ask her again) But I'd love to thankyou Kristen for giving the Catdog Mailing list this information.

More to Come soon : John Kassir, and other artists!!!