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Jim Cummings.

James Jonah Cummings (born November 3, 1952State of California. Lists James J. Cummings on 3 November 1952. No James J. Cummings born in 1953. in Youngstown, Ohio) is a prolific American voice actor.

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Biography

After moving to New Orleans and working as a constructor of Mardi Gras floats, Cummings eventually found himself in Anaheim, California working odd jobs. In 1983, the increasing illness of longtime Winnie the Pooh voice actor Sterling Holloway led to an open call to replace him for the movie Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore. Cummings offered an uncanny substitute, and was hired for his first voice actor job.

Over the next 20 years, Cummings' role in voice acting evolved from bit characters to leading roles in major series at a number of studios, including Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., Hanna-Barbera, Dreamworks, and 20th Century Fox studios. However, his most famous and long-lasting roles have occurred at Walt Disney Studios, where has provided voices for any number of television series (including leading roles in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, Bonkers, Gargoyles, and House of Mouse) and movies such as Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pocahontas and the Disney special edition of Alice in Wonderland (as the Cheshire Cat singing "I'm Odd"). Ironically, his most famous role for Disney (outside of Pooh) was his non-speaking turn as Ed the laughing hyena in 1994's The Lion King.

Other roles for Cummings include Mr. Bumpy in the cult Claymation show Bump in the Night, Dr. Robotnik on Sonic The Hedgehog, and Taz Tazmanian Devil on Taz-Mania and a number of other projects. In addition to Taz and Pooh, Cummings has over the years become the official voice for a number of legendary cartoon characters, including Tigger, Pete, Dick Dastardly, the Slag Brothers, Big Gruesome, Private Meekly, Clyde, and Morocco Mole . He also did some voices on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tv series. He also did the voice of Don Karnage in Disney's TaleSpin. Since John Fiedler's death, Cummings was the voice chosen to voice Piglet in his future appearances.

Cummings has also provided voices for video games, television commercials, and movie trailers, and is the current official announcer for Kids' WB!.

In the world of video games, Cummings has done the voice of Minsc of Baldur's Gate/ and Drizzt Do'Urden in the First game. He is also prominently displayed in the credits of Kingdom Hearts as Pooh, Tigger, and Pete. Cummings provided his voice for Bad Mr. Frosty, Hougan, and Sumo Santa in Clay Fighter 63 1/3. He voices Sarge and the other soldiers in the Army Men games. In Ys Book I and II for the Turbografx -16 CD system, he is credited as voicing Dalles and also did some side characters' voices for Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.

He narrates the current Epcot fireworks show, .

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Trivia

Even though Jim did voice roles in cartoons from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. and other studios, he did most of the voice roles in programs produced by Disney except Kim Possible, Teamo Supremo, Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, Dave the Barbarian and The Wuzzles.

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