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Gregg Berger
Gregory Alan Berger (born December 10, 1950) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Jecht from ''Final Fantasy X'' and the ''Dissidia Final Fantasy'' games, Grimlock from '' The Transformers'', Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter from '' Spider-Man: The Animated Series'', Odie from various ''Garfield'' animated media, Cornfed Pig from ''Duckman'', Bill Licking from ''The Angry Beavers'', Agent Kay from '' Men in Black: The Series'', The Gromble from ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'', Captain Blue from ''Viewtiful Joe'', Eeyore from ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Hunter the Cheetah (1999–2002) and Ripto from ''Spyro the Dragon'', as well as The Thing, Galactus, and Attuma from '' Marvel: Ultimate Alliance''. Early life Berger was born on December 10, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri to an observant Russian-Jewish family. He graduated from University City High School in 1968. Career Voice acting and ''Garfield'' Berger started his career in 1978. He provided the voice of Adult Chirin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turner Classic Movies
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie channel, movie-oriented pay television, pay-TV television network, network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown Atlanta, Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of Golden age (metaphor), classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viewtiful Joe
is a side scrolling beat 'em up video game franchise created by Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya. It is primarily developed and published by Capcom and its subsidiary Clover Studio. Games ''Viewtiful Joe'' (2003) The first game in the series was directed by Hideki Kamiya, who had previously directed ''Resident Evil 2'' and ''Devil May Cry''. It was the second title to be released under the Capcom Five, developed by a team of developers within Capcom Production Studio 4 known as Team Viewtiful. The game was released for the GameCube on June 26, 2003, in Japan, and in October 2003 in North America and Europe. ''Viewtiful Joe'' centers around the avid movie-goer Joe, who is thrust into Movie Land, transforms into the superhero "Viewtiful Joe" and sets out to rescue his girlfriend Silvia. The gameplay features traditional 2D platform side-scrolling intermixed with 3D cel-shaded graphics. A PlayStation 2 version was developed in 2004 by Clover Studio featuring Dante from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Garfield Show
''The Garfield Show'' is a CGI animated television series produced by Dargaud Media and Paws, Inc.. It is based on the American ''Garfield'' comic strip created by Jim Davis. The animated series focuses on a new series of adventures for the characters of Garfield, Odie, and their owner Jon Arbuckle, alongside staple characters from the strip and a number of unique additions for the program. Both Davis and producer Mark Evanier, who previously wrote episodes for the 1988 animated series ''Garfield and Friends'', co-wrote stories for the program, with the cast including Frank Welker, Wally Wingert, Julie Payne, Jason Marsden and Gregg Berger. Welker and Berger had previously voiced various characters in ''Garfield and Friends''. The animated series premiered on 22 December 2008 in France as Garfield & Cie and on 2 November 2009 in the United States. It ran for five seasons, with its last episode airing in America on 24 October 2016; Evanier stated shortly afterward that it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield And Friends
''Garfield and Friends'' is an American animated television series based on the comic strip ''Garfield'' by Jim Davis. The show aired on CBS as part of its Saturday morning children's lineup from September 17, 1988 to December 10, 1994. The show features animated story lines adapted from the comic strip ''Garfield'' and Davis's other comic strip '' U.S. Acres''. Mark Evanier was the show's head writer. Lorenzo Music provided the voice of Garfield the cat, the strip's title character, as he had done since ''Here Comes Garfield'' in 1982. Other voices present on the show included Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's human owner, and Gregg Berger as Odie the dog. Berger and Huge also respectively voiced Orson Pig and Roy Rooster in the ''U.S. Acres'' segments. 121 episodes were made, each consisting of two ''Garfield'' segments and one ''U.S. Acres'' segment. All episodes have been released in the U.S. on five DVD sets by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Content ''Garfield'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here Comes Garfield
''Here Comes Garfield'' is a 1982 animated television special based on the comic strip ''Garfield'' by Jim Davis. It was the first half-hour ''Garfield'' TV special. It is directed by Phil Roman and features Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield the house cat, as well as the voices of Sandy Kenyon, Henry Corden and Gregg Berger. The special was first broadcast October 25, 1982 on CBS. It was a Nielsen ratings success and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. It was accompanied by a soundtrack album and a children's book adaptation and has been released on VHS and DVD. This is the first of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991. Plot Garfield and Odie are outside harassing a neighbor's dog when the owner, Hubert, angrily calls the pound to capture them. When the dogcatcher arrives, Garfield flees, but Odie is too stupid to flee and is captured. Garfield decides to go home, but he is unable to tell Jon Arbuckle that Odie is in peril. Garfield soon realiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Arbuckle
Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ''Garfield'' comic strip by Jim Davis. He also appears in the animated television series ''Garfield and Friends'' and ''The Garfield Show'', two live-action/ CGI feature films, and three fully CGI films. Jon is the owner of Garfield and Odie. Development The character of Jon Arbuckle was originally envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate and was the primary character of the comic strip ''Jon'', created by Davis in 1976 and syndicated locally in the Indiana newspaper '' The Pendleton Times''. ''Jon'' featured Jon Arbuckle alongside his pet cat, Garfield, and a dog named "Spot", who would eventually evolve into Odie. Davis eventually decided to replace Jon with Garfield as the main character, with the renamed ''Garfield'' strip achieving national syndication in 1978. Fictional biography Jon told Garfield that he was 29 years old in a December 23, 1980 strip. However, in the episode "T3000" of ''The Garfield Show' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringing Bell
is a 1978 Japanese anime adventure-drama film adaptation of the storybook of the same name written by Takashi Yanase, the creator of ''Anpanman''. It is most notable by fans and critics as a family film which makes a sharp, sudden turn into a dark and violent story that criticizes and reflects upon the theme of revenge and war. It is also recognized as one of the only Japanese shock films directed towards children and families. ''Ringing Bell'' was produced by Sanrio and originally shown as a double feature alongside the US/Sanrio co-production ''The Mouse and his Child''. It is Sanrio's first anime film to have a dark plot, only two films they co-produced with Sunrise, ''The Ideon: A Contact'' and ''The Ideon: Be Invoked'' – both of which serve as the conclusion to Yoshiyuki Tomino's ''Space Runaway Ideon'', follow suit. Like the above-mentioned ''Ideon'' films, it is among Sanrio's first works to be aimed at young adult audience members in and outside Japan. Synopsis A yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University City High School (Missouri)
University City High School (UCHS) is a public high school in University City, Missouri, United States, that is part of the School District of University City. As part of the University City Education District, the high school building was listed, along with nearby Jackson Park Elementary School and Hanley Junior High School, in the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1985. Notable alumni * David Bass, NFL football player *Bud Black, major-league pitcher *Harold Brodkey, writer *Jeremy Davenport, jazz musician *Bing Devine, General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals *Marty Ehrlich, jazz musician *Malcolm Frager, pianist *Bob Gale, screenwriter, author, movie producer *Dave Garroway, broadcaster *Bernard Gilkey, major-league outfielder * Marty Hendin, St. Louis Cardinals former director of public relations *Ken Holtzman, two-time All Star major-league pitcher *Art Jimmerson, professional boxer * Peter Martin, jazz pianist *Ed Mickelson, major-league first basema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultimate Alliance
''Marvel: Ultimate Alliance'' is a 2006 action role-playing video game, developed by Raven Software for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360, and published by Activision. The game was ported to the PlayStation Portable and Wii by Vicarious Visions, and to Microsoft Windows by Beenox. A different Game Boy Advance version was developed by Barking Lizards Technologies. A re-release version based on Xbox 360's latest edition was developed by Zoë Mode for Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and was released in July 2016. ''Ultimate Alliance'' is set within the fictional Marvel Universe and features many of the superheroes, supervillains, and supporting characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. It shares many similarities with Raven Software's previous Marvel titles, ''X-Men Legends'' and '' X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'', in that it allows players to select from its vast cast to create the ultimate superhero team. The game features an original pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attuma
Attuma is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is an Atlantean nomadic warlord who is usually depicted as an enemy of Namor the Sub-Mariner, and is the father of the superhero Andromeda. He believes he is the prophesied conqueror of the Atlantean Empire. Alex Livinalli portrays Attuma in his live-action debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film '' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'' (2022). Publication history Attuma first appeared in ''Fantastic Four'' #33 (1964), and was created by Stan Lee (writer) and Jack Kirby (artist). Fictional character biography Attuma was born as a member of a tribe of barbaric Atlanteans, who were banished from Atlantis ages ago. For unknown reasons Attuma was born with strength, endurance, and speed far superior to those of any normal Atlantean. Attuma quickly became leader of his tribe and declared that he would conquer the city of Atlantis as an ancient prophecy predicted. Attuma had an illegitimate daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galactus
Galactus () is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Formerly a mortal man, Galactus is a cosmic entity who consumes planets to sustain his life force, and serves a functional role in the upkeep of the primary Marvel continuity. Galactus was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in '' Fantastic Four'' #48 (March 1966). Lee and Kirby wanted to introduce a character that broke away from the archetype of the standard villain. In the character's first appearance, Galactus was depicted as a god-like figure who feeds by draining living planets of their energy, and operates without regard to the morality and judgments of mortal beings. Galactus's initial origin was that of a Taa-an space explorer named Galan who gained cosmic abilities by passing near a star,''Thor'' #168–169. Marvel Comics. but writer Mark Gruenwald further developed the origin of the character, presenting Galan as alive during the previous universe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thing (comics)
Benjamin Jacob Grimm, also known as The Thing, is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a founding member of the Fantastic Four. The Thing was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and he first appeared in ''The Fantastic Four'' #1 (cover-dated Nov. 1961). Known for his trademark rocky appearance, he has superhuman strength, a sense of humor, and the battle cry "It's clobberin' time!" Thing's speech patterns are loosely based on those of Jimmy Durante. Michael Bailey Smith played Ben Grimm in his human form, while Carl Ciarfalio played the Thing in ''The Fantastic Four'' film from 1994, Michael Chiklis portrayed the Thing in the 2005 film ''Fantastic Four'' and its 2007 sequel '' Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer''. Jamie Bell acted the part in ''Fantastic Four'' (2015). Publication history Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in ''The Fantastic Four'' #1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
