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It's Punky Brewster!
''It's Punky Brewster'' is a 1985–1986 animated spin-off of the live action television sitcom ''Punky Brewster''. It was animated by Ruby-Spears Productions. The show uses the same premise and main cast as its parent series, but also includes a magical sprite named Glomer. 26 episodes were produced over two seasons. Synopsis The series featured the voices of the original ''Punky Brewster'' cast as their respective characters. A new character, Glomer (voiced by Frank Welker), was added as the "leprechaun gopher". He came from Chaundoon, a city at the end of the rainbow and possesses various magical powers. One such power was the ability to transport Punky and her friends, Margaux, Cherie, and Allen, and at times her dog, Brandon, to any part of the Earth instantly. Some episodes included Glomer having to correct his own mistakes, as when he plays around with magic and transforms Henry into a statue of Julius Caesar. ''It's Punky Brewster'' is the series' unofficial name (''Punk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ruby
Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 – August 26, 2020) was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as the creator of the animated ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise, together with Ken Spears. In 1977, they co-founded the television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Biography Ruby was born on March 30, 1933, in Los Angeles, the son of Mildred (''née'' Fineberg) and Carl Ruby, a doctor. His family was Jewish, and his parents were Canadian. He attended Fairfax High School. After graduating, he joined the United States Navy and worked as a sonar operator on a destroyer during the Korean War. Ruby studied art and began his career in animation at Walt Disney Animation Studios in the inbetweening department. He began as a music editor, knowing it would take a long process to become an experienced animator, but nonetheless pursued his passion at the side as a freelance comic book artist and writer. He later worked for a shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDb
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Menville
Scott David Menville (born February 12, 1971) is an American actor who is known for his voice work in animated films, television series and video games. Life and career Menville was born on February 12, 1971, to television animator and writer Chuck Menville (1940–1992). His first role came in 1979 in an episode of '' Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''. He is perhaps best known for providing the voice of Robin on the ''Teen Titans'' animated series, Lloyd Irving on ''Tales of Symphonia'', taking over the role of Freddy Flintstone from Lennie Weinrib on ''The Flintstone Kids'', and Ma-Ti on ''Captain Planet and the Planeteers''. He also voiced Jonny Quest on ''The New Adventures of Jonny Quest'', Quicksilver on ''The Super Hero Squad Show'', and Kevin French on '' Mission Hill''. Menville is also a musician. He was the bassist for the Southern California rock band Boy Hits Car, which released three albums before he left the band in 2006; he had been a founding member of the band. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mendenhall
David Athen Mendenhall (born June 13, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films '' Space Raiders'', ''Over the Top'', '' The Transformers: The Movie'' and ''They Still Call Me Bruce''. Early life and acting career Mendenhall was born in Oceanside, California. He has a younger sister, Marissa. Mendenhall began his acting career at the age of four. In 1979, he auditioned for and won the role of Mike Webber on the soap opera ''General Hospital''. He remained with the series until 1986. During that time, Mendenhall started acting in feature films. Mendenhall made his film debut in the 1983 space Western, '' Space Raiders'', produced by Roger Corman. Notable television appearances during the 80s also included playing Elaine Nardo's son on ''Taxi'' on three episodes, and playing a 12-year-old drug dealer in “The Reporter”, a very special episode of the sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes''. The episode featured a guest appearance by then-First Lady Nancy Reagan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tress MacNeille
Teressa Claire MacNeille (née Payne; born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress, whose credits include voicing Dot Warner on the animated television series ''Animaniacs'', Babs Bunny on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', Chip and Gadget Hackwrench on '' Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers'', and Daisy Duck in various Disney media since 1999. She has also worked on animated series such as ''The Simpsons'', ''Futurama'', ''Rugrats'', and ''Hey Arnold!'' Early life MacNeille loved cartoons as a child and wanted to be a voice actress from the age of eight, but instead chose a "practical" career, feeling she would never be able to realise her ambition. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended broadcasting school, becoming a disc jockey. Career MacNeille worked in numerous jobs and had many minor voiceover roles before becoming a regular on an animated TV show. In her words: "I'd been doing radio spots, some TV, demos, sound-alikes, industrial narrations—an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Leigh
Katherine Elizabeth "Katie" Leigh Joseph (born December 16, 1958) is an American voice actress, best known for her roles as Sunni Gummi in ''Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears'', Zuzu in ''Poppy Cat'', Alex in the first two seasons of ''Totally Spies!'', and as Connie Kendall in the Focus on the Family radio program ''Adventures in Odyssey'' since 1987 and is one of two remaining original cast members of the show (the other being Chris Anthony). She has voice acted in both television, film and occasionally video game roles. Ms. Leigh also did the voice of the 2010 ''Red Rover'' electronic game. Personal life Leigh was married to Mark Pavlakovich from 1983 to 2003; together they have three children. She has been married to Vincent Panzero since 2009. Leigh identifies as a Christian. Filmography Television * '' The Adventures of the Little Prince'' — Little Prince (English dub) * ''The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy'' — Sunny Bunny, French Doll * ''Aladdin'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renae Jacobs
Renae Jacobs (born February 1, 1957) is an American voice actress, who is perhaps best known for voicing journalist and reporter April O'Neil in the original ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' animated series. Early life Renae Jacobs was born February 1, 1957 in Lansing, Michigan, moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980s to pursue a career as a voice actress. ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' While working in Los Angeles in 1986, she received a call to audition for ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''. She was directed through the audition by Stu Rosen. The first day Rosen made it clear he didn't approve of her for the role, and had waited to show her audition after exhausting all the others. She has said that developed her initial personification of O'Neil after reading the description in the casting material, not the comics themselves: It was also the first role she was awarded that wasn't a "crazy little made up fantasy character". In June 2014, it was announced that Jacobs wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Gary
Linda Gary (born Linda Gary Dewoskin, November 4, 1944 – October 5, 1995) was an American actress. Career Live-action appearances Gary worked as a voice-over artist in animation and also appeared in two live-action films, 1977's ''Joyride To Nowhere'' with husband Charles Howerton and 1980's '' Cruising'' with Al Pacino. She lent her voice in such movies as '' Wolfen'' and ''Switch''. Radio Linda played Dr. Maura Cassidy on Lee Hansen's ''Alien Worlds''. Voice-over work Early career She got her start dubbing Italian films into English while living in Rome with her husband Charles Howerton, then returned to the U.S. in 1974. Gary started going to voice acting classes taught by Daws Butler. She later claimed "When I got my first voice over job, I just sent Daws the check...He believed in me, and I really have him to thank for my career." Hanna-Barbera Gary voiced different characters on several Hanna-Barbera television series: '' Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''; ''The Smurf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Fraley
Patrick Howard Fraley (born February 18, 1949) is an American voice actor and voice-over teacher, known as the voice of Krang, Casey Jones, Baxter Stockman and numerous other characters in the 1987 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' animated television series and voiced Falcon in the 2003 ''Stuart Little'' animated television series. Fraley is also a member of Voice and Speech Trainers of America. Career His first role was in 1979, in Hanna-Barbera's '' Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood'' where he supplied additional voices. In 1985, he voiced Ace on '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' and Hillbilly Jim on ''Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling''. He played Slick the Turtle on ABC's ''The Littles''. He later did the voices of Coach Frogface and Sludge on ''Galaxy High''. A versatile voice artist in 1987, Fraley voiced 65 characters on the animated TV series ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'': Al, Aleister, Army Colonel, Antrax, Billy Jim Bob McJames, Bubba Badd, Bully, Chakahachi, Clown, Dr. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards (born Vincent Edward Zoine; July 9, 1928 – March 11, 1996) was an American actor and director. He was best known for his TV role as doctor Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film '' The Devil's Brigade''. Early life Edwards was born in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to Julia and Vincento Zoine, an Italian-American bricklayer. He and his twin brother, Anthony, were the youngest of seven children. He studied aviation mechanics at East New York Vocational High School, graduating in June 1945. An excellent swimmer, he worked as a lifeguard at Coney Island and swam for the Flatbush Boys Club. He was a standout on his high school swim team, also playing on the school's baseball and track teams. He studied at Ohio State University on an athletic scholarship. He was part of the university's swim team that won the United States National Championships. After two years at Ohio State, he transferred to the University o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois (; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for portraying Odo on '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1993–1999). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical '' Coco''. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's '' The Good Doctor'' (1973), Roger Miller's '' Big River'' (1985), and Cy Coleman's '' City of Angels'' (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for ''Big River''. A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on ''Benson'' (1979–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on '' Boston Legal'' (2004–2008). In films, Auberjonois portray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxie's World
''Maxie's World'' is a 1987 American animated children's television program produced by DIC Animation City. Distributed by Claster Television and Saban International and originally aired in first-run syndication in the United States from September 14, 1987 through October 27, 1987 and September 11, 1989 through December 8, 1989, The Family Channel in the United States from 1993, to 1998, CITV (TV-am and GMTV), TV-am's Wacaday, TV-am's Hey, Hey, It's Saturday!, GMTV's Parkin's In and GMTV's Fun In The Sun in the United Kingdom from June 22, 1990 to October 26, 1995, Seven Network in Australia from 1990, La Cinq in France from 1990, and M6 in France from 1993. It consists of one season, comprising a total of 32 episodes, each 15 minutes long. After its original run, it continued to be broadcast throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of a syndication package featuring rebroadcasts of ''Beverly Hills Teens'' and ''It's Punky Brewster''. Developed for television by Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
