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Who is Mr. Showtime?
Does anyone know who the voice actor is who is the voice of Showtime?
He does a lot of their promos and all of the “The following presentation has been rated…..” intros. He is sort of a “Voice of God” type (the late Don LaFontaine, Beau Weaver, Ashton Smith, etc.) but a bit more sedate. He’s been doing those on Showtime for years and I never heard him on anything else ever… until he cropped up in some of the NBC Olympics promos this summer.
Anywho, I want to see about casting him for voice work in an upcoming project… but I can’t find any trace of him or who he is. None of the voiceover agents I use (and three of them are the “big ones”) know him… or simply aren’t being helpful because they don’t represent him. I got nowhere with Showtime, and no longer have any decent contacts in promotions at NBC.
Anyone know who this dude is?
Thanks!
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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If this is the guy…his daughter apparently posted the second comment on this page…
https://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/10/united-states-o.html#commentsform
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,CPO, Digieffects
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hmmm actually I thought the Showtime guy WAS beau weaver. I don’t really watch Sho much except for Dexter. I’ll try to give it a listen.
I think Beau is with DPN — formerly ICM — or at least he used to be.
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YES, Tim, thanks… that’s the guy. Unfortunately I still don’t know who he is.
The poster mused that he must do “70% of the trailers”… not true (that distinction would go to Hal Douglas, even before Don LaF’s untimely passing). I’ve never heard him on anything other than Showtime, except a little bit of NBC sports. He has a great voice, but is fairly emotionless… which is why I think he doesn’t work more (although that’s what I need for this project).
And no, that’s not Beau Weaver. Similar, for sure… but not him.
I’ll keep searching… I have a voice session later today with the great Peter Thomas, I’ll play that trailer over the phone patch and see if Peter knows him.
Thanks all…
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Hey Todd, which agencies did you check with? You can email me who you checked with if you want and I’ll see if I can give you a few more leads. Off the top of my head I’d say check with William Morris, but I’m sure you already did that.
Cheers,
JohnJohn
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Thanks John…
I think we checked with most of the LA voice agents (DPN, CESD, SBV, TGMD, Wm Morris, Sandi Schnarr).
I haven’t tried the east coast ones yet (Buckwald, Atlas, etc.) as I was pretty sure this guy was west coast… but I’ll give them a try.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Found him… just in case anyone cares.
He is Bill St. James, lives on Cape Cod.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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