Corey Burton

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Corey Burton (born August 3, 1955), is an animation voice actor. His roles include Ludwig Von Drake on DuckTales Quack Pack, Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse; Dale and Zipper on Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers; Mole in Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Brainiac in Superman: The Animated Series, Static Shock, and Justice League; and Captain Hook in Return to Never Land and Kingdom Hearts. He will also star in Peter Pan III. He also voices various characters on the Focus on the Family radio drama Adventures in Odyssey.

He has done extensive voicework for Disney including but not limited to the feature animation, theme park, and interactive sections of the company. Burton has done voice work for attractions at the Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, and Tokyo Disney Resort, and could be considered the successor to Jack Wagner, who was nicknamed "The Voice of Disneyland." He has also done numerous cartoon series for other networks such as the Cartoon Network.

Burton also has done work for the Universal Studios Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, FL in addition to the Universal Studios Japan theme park.

He is perhaps best known for his imitation of the late Paul Frees as the Ghost Host in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Holiday and reciting the classic line "Welcome, foolish mortals" in the opening of the film version of The Haunted Mansion.

He is also known for his roles in the hit 1980s cartoons Transformers as Shockwave, Sunstreaker, Brawn and Spike Witwicky; and GI Joe as Tomax. He has also starred as the evil antagonist Kanawk for the cult 80's cartoon Robotix, as well as taking the roles of Goon and Tauron. He is the voice of the villainous Count Dooku in all Star Wars Expanded Universe media. He is also the voice of Trommel Guado and Maester Kelk Ronso in PlayStation 2 video game Final Fantasy X. He voices Fantasia's Yen Sid, Tron's Sark and MCP and 4 other characters in the video game Kingdom Hearts II.

Doing voice overs for many commercials and promos, Burton's voice might also be recognized from the popular Old Navy commercials, which he inherited after the death of Bill Wendell. Recently, he provided his voice for the Final Fantasy XII TV promo.