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Dee Bradley Baker

January 19, 2023

Dee Bradley Baker (born August 31, 1962) is an American voice actor. Much of Baker's work features vocalizations of animals and monsters. Baker's roles include animated series such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Codename: Kids Next Door, Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Phineas and Ferb, Ben 10, The Legend of Korra, The 7D, and American Dad! His voice work in live-action series includes Legends of the Hidden Temple and Shop 'til You Drop, as well as films such as Space Jam and The Boxtrolls.

Dee Bradley Baker
Baker at the 2016 WonderCon
Born (1962-08-31) August 31, 1962 (age 60)
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
Alma materColorado College (BA)
OccupationVoice actor
Years active1989–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
Michelle Baker
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(m. 1990)​
Children2
Websitedeebaker.com

Baker has also voiced characters in video games such as Halo, Gears of War, Viewtiful Joe, Spore, Destiny, and Overwatch. He is especially known for his work on various Star Wars television series, mainly as the voice of Captain Rex and other clone troopers in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, and Star Wars: Rebels.

Early life

Baker was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on August 31, 1962,[1][2] He grew up in Greeley, Colorado.[3][4] He started performing at the age of nine and steadily worked in musicals, operas, plays, and stand-up comedy. As a child, he was a fan of Star Trek, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, and the music of Frank Zappa; he also had an interest in insects, arthropods, and dinosaurs.[5] He graduated from University High School in 1981 and received a Boettcher Scholarship.[3][6]

Baker attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he studied philosophy, biology, fine arts, and German, the last of which he studied overseas for a year at the University of Göttingen.[7] He was involved in local theater productions and singing groups. After graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1986, he was involved in many community theater projects, including a sketch comedy movie that aired on local public television.[8]

Career

Legends of the Hidden Temple

In 1989, Baker moved to Orlando, Florida, where he worked on an improv sketch comedy show titled The Anacomical Players at EPCOT Center's Wonders of Life pavilion and joined various projects for Disney and Universal Studios.[2][8][9] His first major experience on national television was on the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1993 to 1995, where he was not only the announcer, but also the giant talking rock-god Olmec.[8][10] He portrayed Olmec with a "big, booming, loud, god-like voice". During parts of the show, he would narrate a legend, and then ask the kid contestants related trivia questions. The show lasted three seasons and 120 episodes. When host Kirk Fogg moved to Los Angeles, he was encouraged to move there as well.[11] In 2016, he and Fogg reprised their roles for a live action television movie adaptation of the show.[12] He reprised his role of Olmec again when Legends was revived in 2021 on The CW.[13]

Early voice acting career

Baker moved to Southern California about a year before the 1994 Northridge earthquake.[3] He got involved in voice-over work; his first major character was Cow & Chicken's dad in the Cow & Chicken and I Am Weasel cartoons.[8] His first feature film voice-over was on the basketball-themed Looney Tunes film Space Jam where he voiced Daffy Duck, Taz and Toro.[8] He did voice work for various episodic and recurring cartoon characters in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest,[14] Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory,[15] SpongeBob SquarePants,[16] and The Powerpuff Girls.[17] He voiced starring characters Og in Mike, Lu & Og[18] and Bagheera in the second season of Jungle Cubs.[19] In 2001, he added voice roles for Sanjay, Binky and other characters for The Fairly OddParents[20][21] and co-starred as Mandy's father on Billy and Mandy.[22][21] He had a lead role as Numbuh 4 in Codename: Kids Next Door.[23]

On the live-action front, he became the co-host and announcer for the game show Shop 'til You Drop which spanned several hundred episodes when it resumed broadcasting on the Family Channel and on the Pax television network, until a series retool in 2003; it was produced by Stone Stanley Entertainment, which had earlier co-produced Legends of the Hidden Temple.[24] He also had an on-screen recurring role as Phil Berg in the Nickelodeon sitcom series The Journey of Allen Strange where he plays a crazed journalist who tries to expose Allen's identity as a space alien.[25]

Animal and creature characterizations

Starting with gigs on The Wild Thornberrys, he voiced an assortment of animal characters, which would become one of his specialties.[21] He voiced Pig George in the live action animal film My Brother the Pig.[26] Baker has also been involved with television shows for younger children including: Dora the Explorer where he provided animal sounds;[27] Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where he voices Boo Boo Chicken;[28] Curious George where he voices Gnocchi;[29] My Friends Tigger & Pooh where he voices Buster the dog[30] and Jake and the Neverland Pirates (airing on Disney Junior) where he voices Tick-Tock the crocodile.[21] In Avatar: The Last Airbender where he voiced the creatures Appa and Momo[31] and would soon voice many other creatures in the series as well as its sequel, The Legend of Korra, where he voices Naga, Pabu and Oogi. He voiced in the American Dragon: Jake Long[32] and Ben 10 series, the latter of which he voiced many alien creatures such as Stinkfly and Wildmutt, as well as some of the transformations.[21][33] He also voiced in the Ben 10 sequels such as Ben 10: Alien Force,[34] Ben 10: Ultimate Alien and Ben 10: Omniverse, as well as its live-action adaptations and the show's reboot.[21][35][36] Derrick J. Wyatt, who was the art director for Omniverse, noted that they had to allow other voice actors to do some of the aliens in the later series because Baker was doing almost all of them and some of the characters were putting a strain on his throat.[36] Outside of television, he provided the voice of Captain Jack Sparrow's talking parrot in the refurbished Pirates of the Caribbean rides at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom.[9][37]

In 2007, Baker got the role of Perry the Platypus in the Disney series Phineas and Ferb. At the San Diego Comic-Con 2013 panel, Baker mentioned that when he auditioned, he was asked to provide three different creature sounds, regardless of whether it actually sounded like a platypus, of which one was selected as Perry's characteristic sound.[38] Perry has become a breakout character for the series,[39] with Baker appearing at multiple Comic-Con panels for the show.[38] In 2014, Perry was nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Best Animal Sidekick. Coincidentally, another one of Baker's voiced characters, Waddles the pet pig in Gravity Falls, was nominated for the same category.[40]

Further animation voice-over work

 
Baker at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con

In 2005, Baker landed a role as Klaus Heisler, an Olympic ski jumper from Germany who was body-swapped into a goldfish, in the primetime cartoon sitcom American Dad![41][42] The series has run for over 15 seasons on Fox and TBS. In an interview with Pop Break, Baker said that he liked playing Klaus because he loves the German language, the part was well written, and it is not stressful on his voice. He compared the rehearsals to being on The Carol Burnett Show.[43] He participated in American Dad panels at San Diego Comic-Con 2010[44] 2012,[45] and 2014;[46] and the New York Comic-Con in 2014.[47] In 2017, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for Klaus in the episode "Fight or Flight".[4]

His voicing of council member Tarrlok in Korra garnered a nomination for the Behind the Voice Actors (BTVA) Voice Acting Award in 2012.[48][49][50][51] In addition to television shows, Baker voiced characters in many animated and live action animation films, including some of the classic ghost monsters in Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed,[52] and Maurice in Happy Feet.[21] He also had roles in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated TV series and its direct-to-video releases.[21]

Baker was involved in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film released in 2008 and its television series afterwards which ran for seven seasons. He provided the voices for not only the characters Captain Rex and Commander Cody, but also all the supporting clone troopers,[53][54][55] the last of which he received an Annie Award nomination for Voice Acting in a Television Production in 2012.[56] He has also reprised the role of the of Captain Rex in Star Wars Rebels, beginning with its second season. He also provided the voice of Boba Fett for Star Tours – The Adventures Continue.[9] In the 2011 Family Guy episode "It's a Trap!", a parody of the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, he voiced Klaus as Admiral Ackbar.[57] In 2021, he reprised the role of the clones in the Clone Wars spin-off The Bad Batch, including the titular group of experimental clones.[58][59]

Video games, more voice acting, and other projects

In the video game world, Baker reprised his roles in Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon's multitude of show-related game releases. He also voiced Gravemind in Halo 2 and Halo 3,[21] and the title character Joe in the Viewtiful Joe series released from 2003 to 2005.[60] He provided the creature sounds for the Spore video game which allows players to create and evolve their own creatures.[61][62] At San Diego Comic-Con 2008's opening night, he was a featured performer at the Video Games Live concert, where he voiced characters from Gears of War and other series.[63] He provided voices for two Blizzard Entertainment characters – Murky, a baby murloc in Heroes of the Storm, and Hammond, a genetically engineered hamster in Overwatch.[64] He is also the voice of the Death in Dante's Inferno, released in 2010,[65] and Atlas and P-body in Portal 2, released in 2011.[66]

In 2014, Baker continued participating in American Dad, Gravity Falls, and a fourth season of The Legend of Korra. He voiced Dopey in the Disney XD series The 7D;[67] and Fish, Wheels and Bucket in The Boxtrolls film,[68][69][70] in which he was nominated for an Annie Award for voicing Fish.[71][72] In the Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham video game, he voiced Brainiac.[73] He voiced George Clooney and his dog in "The Animated Episode" of the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland.[74] In 2020, he voiced the hero Leef in Rocket Arena.[75]

Baker has appeared on various panels at Comic-Con and other conventions where he talks about voice acting in general.[76] He also created a website called IWantToBeAVoiceActor.com, where he answers frequently-asked questions about voice acting and gives advice.[69] The site has been cited by fellow voice actors Steven Blum and Rob Paulsen as a valuable resource for getting into voice acting.[77][78]

Filmography

Main article: Dee Bradley Baker filmography

Personal life

Baker met his wife when they were doing children's theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.[2][3][8] They married in 1990, and have two daughters.[3][8] They live in Los Angeles.

Outside of voice acting, Baker enjoys photography, mostly taking pictures of small flowers and insects.[69][79] He is fluent in German.[7][80]

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  75. ^ Rocket Arena [@RocketArena] (October 19, 2020). "Happy jet fueled Monday! It may come as no surprise that the ever so awesome @deebradleybaker voiced our new Season 2 hero, Leef! Maybe Dee holds the key to knowing what Leef is actually saying? #LETSROCKET" (Tweet). Retrieved December 30, 2020 – via Twitter.
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Dee Bradley Baker born August 31 1962 is an American voice actor Much of Baker s work features vocalizations of animals and monsters Baker s roles include animated series such as Avatar The Last Airbender Codename Kids Next Door Gravity Falls Steven Universe Phineas and Ferb Ben 10 The Legend of Korra The 7D and American Dad His voice work in live action series includes Legends of the Hidden Temple and Shop til You Drop as well as films such as Space Jam and The Boxtrolls Dee Bradley BakerBaker at the 2016 WonderConBorn 1962 08 31 August 31 1962 age 60 Bloomington Indiana U S Alma materColorado College BA OccupationVoice actorYears active1989 presentWorksFull listSpouseMichelle Baker m 1990 wbr Children2Websitedeebaker wbr comBaker has also voiced characters in video games such as Halo Gears of War Viewtiful Joe Spore Destiny and Overwatch He is especially known for his work on various Star Wars television series mainly as the voice of Captain Rex and other clone troopers in Star Wars The Clone Wars Star Wars The Bad Batch and Star Wars Rebels Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Legends of the Hidden Temple 2 2 Early voice acting career 2 3 Animal and creature characterizations 2 4 Further animation voice over work 2 5 Video games more voice acting and other projects 3 Filmography 4 Personal life 5 References 6 External linksEarly life EditBaker was born in Bloomington Indiana on August 31 1962 1 2 He grew up in Greeley Colorado 3 4 He started performing at the age of nine and steadily worked in musicals operas plays and stand up comedy As a child he was a fan of Star Trek Star Wars Planet of the Apes and the music of Frank Zappa he also had an interest in insects arthropods and dinosaurs 5 He graduated from University High School in 1981 and received a Boettcher Scholarship 3 6 Baker attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs Colorado where he studied philosophy biology fine arts and German the last of which he studied overseas for a year at the University of Gottingen 7 He was involved in local theater productions and singing groups After graduating with a BA in philosophy in 1986 he was involved in many community theater projects including a sketch comedy movie that aired on local public television 8 Career EditLegends of the Hidden Temple Edit In 1989 Baker moved to Orlando Florida where he worked on an improv sketch comedy show titled The Anacomical Players at EPCOT Center s Wonders of Life pavilion and joined various projects for Disney and Universal Studios 2 8 9 His first major experience on national television was on the Nickelodeon game show Legends of the Hidden Temple from 1993 to 1995 where he was not only the announcer but also the giant talking rock god Olmec 8 10 He portrayed Olmec with a big booming loud god like voice During parts of the show he would narrate a legend and then ask the kid contestants related trivia questions The show lasted three seasons and 120 episodes When host Kirk Fogg moved to Los Angeles he was encouraged to move there as well 11 In 2016 he and Fogg reprised their roles for a live action television movie adaptation of the show 12 He reprised his role of Olmec again when Legends was revived in 2021 on The CW 13 Early voice acting career Edit Baker moved to Southern California about a year before the 1994 Northridge earthquake 3 He got involved in voice over work his first major character was Cow amp Chicken s dad in the Cow amp Chicken and I Am Weasel cartoons 8 His first feature film voice over was on the basketball themed Looney Tunes film Space Jam where he voiced Daffy Duck Taz and Toro 8 He did voice work for various episodic and recurring cartoon characters in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest 14 Johnny Bravo Dexter s Laboratory 15 SpongeBob SquarePants 16 and The Powerpuff Girls 17 He voiced starring characters Og in Mike Lu amp Og 18 and Bagheera in the second season of Jungle Cubs 19 In 2001 he added voice roles for Sanjay Binky and other characters for The Fairly OddParents 20 21 and co starred as Mandy s father on Billy and Mandy 22 21 He had a lead role as Numbuh 4 in Codename Kids Next Door 23 On the live action front he became the co host and announcer for the game show Shop til You Drop which spanned several hundred episodes when it resumed broadcasting on the Family Channel and on the Pax television network until a series retool in 2003 it was produced by Stone Stanley Entertainment which had earlier co produced Legends of the Hidden Temple 24 He also had an on screen recurring role as Phil Berg in the Nickelodeon sitcom series The Journey of Allen Strange where he plays a crazed journalist who tries to expose Allen s identity as a space alien 25 Animal and creature characterizations Edit Starting with gigs on The Wild Thornberrys he voiced an assortment of animal characters which would become one of his specialties 21 He voiced Pig George in the live action animal film My Brother the Pig 26 Baker has also been involved with television shows for younger children including Dora the Explorer where he provided animal sounds 27 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse where he voices Boo Boo Chicken 28 Curious George where he voices Gnocchi 29 My Friends Tigger amp Pooh where he voices Buster the dog 30 and Jake and the Neverland Pirates airing on Disney Junior where he voices Tick Tock the crocodile 21 In Avatar The Last Airbender where he voiced the creatures Appa and Momo 31 and would soon voice many other creatures in the series as well as its sequel The Legend of Korra where he voices Naga Pabu and Oogi He voiced in the American Dragon Jake Long 32 and Ben 10 series the latter of which he voiced many alien creatures such as Stinkfly and Wildmutt as well as some of the transformations 21 33 He also voiced in the Ben 10 sequels such as Ben 10 Alien Force 34 Ben 10 Ultimate Alien and Ben 10 Omniverse as well as its live action adaptations and the show s reboot 21 35 36 Derrick J Wyatt who was the art director for Omniverse noted that they had to allow other voice actors to do some of the aliens in the later series because Baker was doing almost all of them and some of the characters were putting a strain on his throat 36 Outside of television he provided the voice of Captain Jack Sparrow s talking parrot in the refurbished Pirates of the Caribbean rides at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom 9 37 In 2007 Baker got the role of Perry the Platypus in the Disney series Phineas and Ferb At the San Diego Comic Con 2013 panel Baker mentioned that when he auditioned he was asked to provide three different creature sounds regardless of whether it actually sounded like a platypus of which one was selected as Perry s characteristic sound 38 Perry has become a breakout character for the series 39 with Baker appearing at multiple Comic Con panels for the show 38 In 2014 Perry was nominated for a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Best Animal Sidekick Coincidentally another one of Baker s voiced characters Waddles the pet pig in Gravity Falls was nominated for the same category 40 Further animation voice over work Edit Baker at the 2010 San Diego Comic Con In 2005 Baker landed a role as Klaus Heisler an Olympic ski jumper from Germany who was body swapped into a goldfish in the primetime cartoon sitcom American Dad 41 42 The series has run for over 15 seasons on Fox and TBS In an interview with Pop Break Baker said that he liked playing Klaus because he loves the German language the part was well written and it is not stressful on his voice He compared the rehearsals to being on The Carol Burnett Show 43 He participated in American Dad panels at San Diego Comic Con 2010 44 2012 45 and 2014 46 and the New York Comic Con in 2014 47 In 2017 he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice Over Performance for Klaus in the episode Fight or Flight 4 His voicing of council member Tarrlok in Korra garnered a nomination for the Behind the Voice Actors BTVA Voice Acting Award in 2012 48 49 50 51 In addition to television shows Baker voiced characters in many animated and live action animation films including some of the classic ghost monsters in Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed 52 and Maurice in Happy Feet 21 He also had roles in the Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated TV series and its direct to video releases 21 Baker was involved in the Star Wars The Clone Wars film released in 2008 and its television series afterwards which ran for seven seasons He provided the voices for not only the characters Captain Rex and Commander Cody but also all the supporting clone troopers 53 54 55 the last of which he received an Annie Award nomination for Voice Acting in a Television Production in 2012 56 He has also reprised the role of the of Captain Rex in Star Wars Rebels beginning with its second season He also provided the voice of Boba Fett for Star Tours The Adventures Continue 9 In the 2011 Family Guy episode It s a Trap a parody of the Star Wars film Return of the Jedi he voiced Klaus as Admiral Ackbar 57 In 2021 he reprised the role of the clones in the Clone Wars spin off The Bad Batch including the titular group of experimental clones 58 59 Video games more voice acting and other projects Edit In the video game world Baker reprised his roles in Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon s multitude of show related game releases He also voiced Gravemind in Halo 2 and Halo 3 21 and the title character Joe in the Viewtiful Joe series released from 2003 to 2005 60 He provided the creature sounds for the Spore video game which allows players to create and evolve their own creatures 61 62 At San Diego Comic Con 2008 s opening night he was a featured performer at the Video Games Live concert where he voiced characters from Gears of War and other series 63 He provided voices for two Blizzard Entertainment characters Murky a baby murloc in Heroes of the Storm and Hammond a genetically engineered hamster in Overwatch 64 He is also the voice of the Death in Dante s Inferno released in 2010 65 and Atlas and P body in Portal 2 released in 2011 66 In 2014 Baker continued participating in American Dad Gravity Falls and a fourth season of The Legend of Korra He voiced Dopey in the Disney XD series The 7D 67 and Fish Wheels and Bucket in The Boxtrolls film 68 69 70 in which he was nominated for an Annie Award for voicing Fish 71 72 In the Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham video game he voiced Brainiac 73 He voiced George Clooney and his dog in The Animated Episode of the TV Land series Hot in Cleveland 74 In 2020 he voiced the hero Leef in Rocket Arena 75 Baker has appeared on various panels at Comic Con and other conventions where he talks about voice acting in general 76 He also created a website called IWantToBeAVoiceActor com where he answers frequently asked questions about voice acting and gives advice 69 The site has been cited by fellow voice actors Steven Blum and Rob Paulsen as a valuable resource for getting into voice acting 77 78 Filmography EditMain article Dee Bradley Baker filmographyPersonal life EditBaker met his wife when they were doing children s theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 2 3 8 They married in 1990 and have two daughters 3 8 They live in Los Angeles Outside of voice acting Baker enjoys photography mostly taking pictures of small flowers and insects 69 79 He is fluent in German 7 80 References Edit Gigoux Chris August 31 2011 Happy Birthday Dee Bradley Baker GeekDad Wired com Retrieved October 7 2014 a b c Whitmore Laurie August 30 1991 Baker Fits The Bill In West Side Story Orlando Sentinel Archived from the original on December 16 2014 At the age of 28 Baker is among the lucky minority of entertainers who can call themselves working actors a b c d e England Dan February 14 2007 Vocal vocation Greeley native makes a living voicing characters in films TV shows Greeley Tribune Retrieved August 7 2018 a b Dee Bradley Baker Television Academy Retrieved December 17 2019 Zev Suissa April 11 2013 VO Studio Dee Baker VO Studio Featured Scholar Profiles Under Water is a Good Thing Boettcher Foundation Retrieved September 17 2014 a b Whitten Emily S August 11 2013 Emily S Whitten Dee Bradley Baker is an Animal ComicMix includes YouTube interview a b c d e f g Dee Bradley Baker 86 PDF Colorado College Retrieved September 17 2014 a b c Full Voices of the Disney Theme Parks presentation from D23 Expo 2011 YouTube Attractions Magazine August 27 2011 Archived from the original on December 12 2021 Retrieved September 19 2012 4 minutes in for Pirates 15 minutes in for Boba Fett Dee Bradley Baker deebradleybaker May 25 2013 Legends of the Hidden Temple was my 1st show Forever a fan favorite RT The90sLife Olmec beststatuesofthe90s Tweet Retrieved December 13 2014 via Twitter Etkin Jamie September 11 2013 The Legend Of Legends Of The Hidden Temple As Told By Kirk Fogg and Olmec BuzzFeed McClendon Lamarco June 22 2016 TV News Roundup Legends of the Hidden Temple Revival Brings Back Original Olmec Brian Austin Green Joins Rosewood Variety Retrieved July 13 2016 Dee Bradley Baker coming back to voice Olmec for Legends Of The Hidden Temple The A V Club July 22 2021 Retrieved August 28 2022 Future Rage The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Season 1 Episode 24 October 29 1996 Streaky Clean A Dad Cartoon Sole Brother Dexter s Laboratory Season 3 Episode 1 2001 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 1285 Him Diddle Riddle The Powerpuff Girls Season 4 Episode 4 June 21 2002 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 895 Terrace 2008 p 549 Terrace 2008 p 322 a b c d e f g h i Behind the Voice Actors Dee Bradley Baker Behind the Voice Actors Retrieved February 3 2017 Check mark indicates BTVA has verified the entries using screenshots of credits and other confirmed sources a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint postscript link Terrace 2008 p 418 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 268 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 pp 1230 1231 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 717 FilmRise movies My Brother the Pig Starring Scarlett Johansson Full Movie Event occurs at Closing credits via YouTube Boots Cuddly Dinosaur Dora the Explorer Mickey Goes Fishing Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Season 1 Episode 5 No Knowing Gnocchi Here Comes the Tide Curious George Season 6 Episode 10 Frankenweenie Blu ray 3D Blu ray amp DVD Review DVDizzy com Retrieved September 30 2014 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 88 Goode Jeff American Dragon Jake Long episode 219 A Ghost Story by Chris Nee Jeff Goode Official Website Retrieved October 4 2014 Brooks amp Marsh 2009 p 123 Terrace 2008 p 89 Wyatt Derrick J Will Humungousaur Cannonbolt Spidermonkey be voiced by Dee Bradley Baker in Omniverse or will it be by someone else Formspring Archived from the original on April 12 2013 a b Wyatt Derrick J What made everyone decide to have a variety of voice actors voicing the Ben 10 aliens Dee Bradley Baker voicing every alien besides Rath was the dumbest idea in the universe Archived from the original on April 12 2013 Star Wars Weekends Send In The Clones The DIS Unplugged Disney Podcast www disunplugged com Retrieved November 18 2017 a b Full Phineas and Ferb panel at San Diego Comic Con 2013 including Marvel Star Wars YouTube Archived from the original on December 12 2021 Retrieved October 10 2014 Littleton Cynthia November 20 2009 Phineas star Perry makes mark on auds Variety Retrieved November 26 2009 Brown Laurel March 20 2014 Kids Choice Awards 2014 Full Winners List Zap2It Roger Video Movie Clips amp Character Interview Ovguide com Archived from the original on May 21 2013 Retrieved April 9 2013 McEwen Lauren October 8 2012 American Dad One of the most sophisticated mainstream shows on African American culture The Root DC Live The Washington Post Retrieved April 1 2013 Kalamar Luke November 3 2014 American Dad Interview Series Dee Bradley Baker amp Rachael MacFarlane Pop Break com Caprica will be there Game of Thrones will not The Comic Con lineup Retrieved October 18 2014 Glee Cast and Creators Return to Comic Con 2012 in Star Studded Panel Saturday July 14 Ratings TVbytheNumbers Zap2it com TVbytheNumbers June 13 2012 Archived from the original on June 13 2012 Retrieved October 18 2014 Comic Con 2014 Saturday Programs Comic Con International San Diego Archived from the original on October 23 2014 Retrieved October 18 2014 New York Comic Con 2014 American Dad s move to TBS brings strong story with more dirty words to new season NY Daily News Retrieved October 18 2014 Basile Nancy Dee Bradley Baker Animated TV at About com Archived from the original on September 24 2014 Retrieved September 22 2014 Terrace 2008 p 832 Perlmutter 2014 p 367 2012 Annual BTVA Voice Acting Awards Behind the Voice Actors Retrieved September 22 2014 Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed 2004 Cast and Crew AllMovie Retrieved September 23 2014 Moody Annemarie October 23 2008 Dee Bradley Baker Discusses Voicing The Clones in Star Wars The Clone Wars Animation World Magazine New Voicing an Army BTS Clip from Star Wars The Clone Wars Toon Zone News September 17 2011 Goldman Eric September 6 2011 Star Wars The Clone Wars What s Next for Rex IGN 39th Annie Awards Annie Awards Retrieved September 17 2014 Manco Emanuele December 24 2010 Family Guy It s a Trap Fantasy Magazine in Italian Retrieved August 29 2011 Oller Jacob Carter Justin December 10 2020 Star Wars almost most famous clones are back in The Bad Batch first teaser SyFy Wire Retrieved December 17 2020 Entertainment Tonight May 4 2021 Star Wars The Bad Batch Dee Bradley Baker Breaks Down Each Clone s Voice Archived from the original on December 12 2021 via YouTube Clover Studio October 7 2013 Viewtiful Joe Capcom Scene Closing credits Voices Jackson Blair September 1 2008 SFP The Magical World of Spore Mix Archived from the original on October 8 2015 Retrieved September 15 2015 Verrier Richard Fritz Ben December 7 2009 Video game voice actors worry they re getting shortchanged latimes com Retrieved October 7 2014 Video Games Live to Perform with the San Diego Symphony During Opening Night of Comic Con Anime News Network Retrieved October 7 2014 A live look inside Blizzard s voice acting with Dee Bradley Baker and BAFTA Blizzard Watch January 29 2019 Retrieved December 20 2019 Dante s Inferno 2010 Video Game Behind The Voice Actors February 9 2010 Dee Bradley Baker deebradleybaker March 6 2015 JediKnightJosh I had no idea that Dee Bradley Baker was the voice of Atlas and Peabody in Portal 2 Yup What an awesome game Tweet via Twitter Orenda Tami July 10 2014 Dee Bradley Baker Whistles While He Works as Dopey on The 7D Disney Examiner Storyteller Media Szabo Barbara March 7 2007 Talent Agent Lectures for Mary Pickford Series Corsair Newspaper Santa Monica College Retrieved October 19 2014 via California Digital Newspaper Collection a b c Liu Ed September 25 2014 Toonzone Interviews Dee Bradley Baker amp Steve Blum on How to Speak Boxtroll Toonzone DT Interviews Boxtrolls Voice and Sound Artist Dee Baker Digital Tutors Blog Retrieved October 7 2014 42nd Annual Annie Award Nominees Retrieved December 1 2014 The Boxtrolls Movie Overview Focus Features NBC Universal Archived from the original on September 22 2014 Retrieved September 2 2014 Cast amp Crew Hilliard Kyle August 2 2014 Lego Batman s Troy Baker On More Last Of Us And Dee Bradley Baker On Left 4 Dead Game Informer The Animated Episode Hot in Cleveland Season 5 Episode 18 July 30 2014 Archived from the original on October 6 2014 Rocket Arena RocketArena October 19 2020 Happy jet fueled Monday It may come as no surprise that the ever so awesome deebradleybaker voiced our new Season 2 hero Leef Maybe Dee holds the key to knowing what Leef is actually saying LETSROCKET Tweet Retrieved December 30 2020 via Twitter Freeman Crispin July 24 2011 Comic Con Panel with Dee Bradley Baker and Chris Borders Voice Acting Mastery Become a Master Voice Actor in the World of Voice Over Retrieved October 22 2014 Blum Steve How do I become a voice actor Steve Blum Voices Retrieved October 22 2014 Rob Paulsen July 20 2012 050 Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt on Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen Weekly Voice Acting and Voice Over Tips Talkin Tools Podcast Tech Jives Network Event occurs at 43 Great Big Story September 11 2019 Meet the Voice Actor Behind Hollywood s Monsters and Creatures Archived from the original on December 12 2021 Retrieved December 17 2019 via YouTube Talkin Toons with Rob Paulsen episode Dee Bradley Baker Book referencesBrooks Tim Marsh Earle F 2009 The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 Present 9th ed Random House Publishing Group ISBN 9780307483201 Terrace Vincent 2008 Encyclopedia of Television Shows 1925 through 2010 2d ed McFarland ISBN 9780786486410 Perlmutter David 2014 America Toons In A History of Television Animation McFarland ISBN 9781476614885 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dee Bradley Baker Wikiquote has quotations related to Dee Bradley Baker Official website I Want To Be A 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