John Kassir

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Johnny Kassir (born October 24, 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who has been active in many facets of entertainment since 1984. During Ed McMahon's original Star Search Kassir had beaten Sinbad in the talent competition.

Kassir played the Bulgarian kicker, Zagreb Shkenusky, in the HBO comedy series 1st & Ten, about a fictional football team. His other live action credits include sketch-acting on The Amanda Show and a portrayal of Shemp Howard in a biopic about The Three Stooges, and Ralph in Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical. He was also able to get his own show in 1997 called Johnnytime, but it was cancelled after one episode.

More recently John has specialized in voice-over work for animation, video games, and other productions. Notable in this regard has been his reading the roles of Raymundo on Rocket Power, and of the Crypt Keeper on the Tales from the Crypt TV series and movies. He also provides the voice in videogames for fan favorite superhero/villian Deadpool. He was also featured in the very first commercial for the Nintendo cornerstone video game series The Legend of Zelda in the United States in 1986.

He also made one voice appearance on Ben 10 as Zombozo in the episode, "Last Laugh."

Recently, he voiced the character Adam MacIntyre and others in the video game Dead Rising.

He is married to actress Julie Benz. The couple have done voice overs in the Xbox game Halo 2.

[edit] External links

• John Kassir: Demo reel at voicebank.net
• John Kassir at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with John Kassir at Dread Central
• John Kassir in the Legend of Zelda commercial
• John Kassir article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.