Jimmy Hodson

Voice Description

Jimmy Hodson is a top movie trailer and television promo voice talent in Los Angeles, CA with a state of the art home ISDN recording studio. He's done thousands of commercials, trailers, promos, narrations, in-show announcing, audiobooks and on camera acting and hosting. His deep, baritone voice ranges from scary and dark to light and conversational and everything in between- bass to mid-range. He does trailers and promos for horror, action, sports, drama and comedy! He's the signature voice of Fox Soccer Channel, sometimes Fox Sports and FSN and the announcer on the long running hit Divorce Court which is in its 11th season! Follow him on Twitter.

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
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• 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 offer copywriting services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Los Angeles, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Westlake Vl., California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Some British accents.

My Voice Experience

Jimmy has been a voice actor since 1980 and in addition to all the movie spots (recently: Race to Witch Mountain, Fantastic 4: Silver Surfer, Sin Nombre, Borat, X-Men 3, Devil Wears Prada, The Omen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Hills Have Eyes, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Walk The Line) and TV promos, he's the signature voice of Fox Soccer Channel, College Football Saturday on Fox Sports Net, and is the announcer on the long running Divorce Court series.

He's done promos for Fox Sports, TNT, FSN, Nat Geo, ABC, has narrated a number of TV series like Fine Living's Ride of Your Life and CARography, and ESPN's Truck Stop. He's recently been the special narration voice for FSN's College Football Saturday Kickoff.

He was the announcer and comedy cast member on Magic Johnson's late night talk show. He's a former VJ as well, having created and hosted the music video series Real Videos and Videosyncrasy.

My Training

Jimmy started off in radio and created and hosted two national music video shows in the 80's and 90's, all the while working in v.o. and on camera acting as well. He studied for years with numerous voiceover teachers, and even learned to sing with the legendary vocal coaches Lee & Sally Sweetland. He studied on-camera acting for years with Kathryn Gately, Laura Henry and at the Film Industry Workshop. Jimmy also is an accomplished director/cameraman/editor who traveled the world shooting documentaries and music videos, hitting some 33 countries.

My Studio Equipment

Sennheiser 416 Shotgun Microphone, Avalon VT 737 sp Vacuum Tube Pre-Amp, Mackie 1402 VLZ Pro Mixer, Telos Zephyr ISDN unit, Pro Tools, Sound Studio, Mac G5, and an M-Box Mini & Mac Book Pro Laptop for recording while traveling

Additional Skills

At 6'-8", Jimmy Hodson is the tallest voiceover talent in the world. Well, at least for yards around. He's easy to work with as he's done so much on both sides of the camera and microphone, he knows what you're up against. He loves medicine, sports, science and non-fiction, so is a great choice for those kinds of narrations. His home ISDN studio in L.A. is truly top notch (it sounds great) and he can go "live" to any other ISDN studio, or you can listen in via phone patch or just let him do his thing. Then the high quality audio files can be e-mailed, FedExed or sent over the internet to your iDisk or FTP site in any format! Or you can just get an e-mail with a link to download the file- a snap!

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in any currency
• Wire transfers

Online Payments Via PayPal

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