Wally Burr

Walter Story Burr (June 2, 1924 – July 9, 2017), also credited as Wally Burr and Walter Burr, was an American voice actor, voice director and recording director. In these various roles, his career spans from 1968 until his death in 2017.

He worked on numerous cartoons during the 1980s, including the role of voice director on the original The Transformers cartoon and G.I. Joe. Aside from voicing some incidental characters, he also filled in roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping. Some voices he did, include The Atom on SuperFriends, Huang Zhong in Dynasty Warriors, and Rock in Soulcalibur.

He voiced Riot's strict father, Mr. Llewelyn, as well as other minor characters and providing additional voices in the Jem animated series.

Career[]

Burr served as a tank commander in the U.S. Army and saw action during the invasion of Normandy in World War II. After the war, he was promoted to captain.

He also had an extensive career as a voice actor in his later life, voicing some incidental characters, as well as roles for regular voice actors who were unavailable for taping.

In addition to his voice acting career, Burr also voice-directed several cartoons during the 1970s and 1980s, such as The Transformers, The Transformers: The Movie, G.I. Joe, Jem, Inspector Gadget and Spider-Man.

Burr was known for his perfectionist recording sessions and he would often do many takes of a single line until he thought it had been nailed. This was often very exhausting for the voice actors, who often tell stories of him in interviews. They do agree that in the end, he created a quality product that satisfied everyone, and most think back on these sessions fondly despite their rigor. In this regard, and in contrast to most directors, Burr was regularly insistent on prolonging recording sessions out to the eight-hour maximum defined by the Screen Actor's Guild. It is rumored that this habit of his was a contributing factor to the 1987 animation voice artist strike; one of the striking actors' primary demands was the reduction of the maximum session length to four hours.

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↑ In the episode Old Meets New.

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[1] In the episode Old Meets New.

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