Voice Description

Warm, deep, intelligent reads for corporate, documentary, museum, websites, Powerpoint, medical, audiobooks, etc. Most of my work is straight narration, but occasionally corporate clients want celebrity voices. Here is the Notorious List of my 113 character voices.

Luis Alberni, Fred Allen, Woody Allen, Richard Basehart, Edgar Bergen (as Mortimer Snurd), Hermann Bing, Eric Blore, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Clive Brook, Charles Butterworth, John Carradine, Winston Churchill, Eduardo Ciannelli, Colin Clive, E.E. Clive, James Coburn, Pinto Colvig (as Goofy), Melville Cooper, Hans Conried, Barry Corbin, Walter Cronkite, Tony Curtis, Howard da Silva, Kenny Delmar (Sen. Claghorn, prototype for Foghorn Leghorn), William Demarest, Jimmy Durante, Leon Errol (as Lord Epping), Peter Falk, Henry Fonda, Paul Ford, Clark Gable, James Garner, Sir John Gielgud, James Gleason, Kelsey Grammer, Sir Alec Guinness, Thurston Hall, Richard Haydn, Charlton Heston
William Hickey, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Homolka, Antony Hopkins, Edward Everett Horton, John Huston, George Jessel, James Earl Jones (as Darth Vader), James Robertson Justice, Boris Karloff, Roscoe Karns, Casey Kasem, Buster Keaton (not the acrobatics, just the voice), Charles Kuralt, Charles Laughton, Wilfred Lawson, Christopher Lee, Sheldon Leonard, John Lithgow, Herbert Lom (as Inspector Dreyfus), Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Paul Lukas, Strother Martin, Walter Matthau, Groucho Marx, Spike Milligan (various), Robert Morley, Jim Nabors, Robert Newton, Sir Laurence Olivier, Reginald Owen, Nestor Paiva, Franklin Pangborn, Don Pardo, Gregory Peck (the celebrity voice that is easiest for me to do), Nat Pendleton, Joe Penner, William Powell, Otto Preminger, Vincent Price, Douglas Rain (as HAL in 2001), Claude Rains, Gregory Ratoff, Sir Ralph Richardson, "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, George Sanders, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Bill Scott (as Bullwinkle), Alexander Scourby, Peter Sellers (various), Harry Shearer, Phil Silvers, Alistair Sim, C. Aubrey Smith, Ned Sparks, Lionel Stander, Henry Stephenson, James Stewart, Patrick Stewart, Akim Tamiroff (the prototype for Boris Badnov), Terry-Thomas, Rip Torn, Arthur Treacher, Conrad Veidt, Mike Wallace, Fritz Weaver, Orson Welles, Chill Wills, Walter Winchell, Joseph Wiseman and Monty Woolley.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks

My Home Base

new york, NY, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Dick Rodstein

My Voice Experience

Hundreds of commercials and thousands of corporate, website, multimedia, interactive, medical, educational, training and PowerPoint presentations, plus museum installations, TV documentaries, film dubbing and trailers, cartoons, websites, messages-on-hold, point of sale and talking books.

My Training

Not so much trained as house-broken.

M.S. in TV-Radio from the Newhouse School of Communications, Syracuse Unversity.

B.A. in English, Oberlin College

My Studio Equipment

Custom handmade mic, Trident preamp, Lynx digital converter.

Additional Skills

Special competency with medical scripts and long-form non-fiction.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Wire transfers

Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

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