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Tony Jay is an English actor, born in the mid-1930s. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he is best known for his voice work in animation and computer games. Jay is distinctive for his rich baritone voice, which often lands him villainous roles.
Live-action roles
Jay has appeared on-screen in several movies and on television, including Love and Death, Twins, and Eerie, Indiana. He also has developed a distinguished career in the theatre, in plays such as Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations, and The Merchant of Venice.
Jay is an impassioned devotee of classic Broadway, and has made several recordings and performances of old-time Broadway lyrics, in spoken-word form. A CD of these readings, Speaking of Broadway, was released in 2005. It features Jay reciting lyrics written by the likes of Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, and Oscar Hammerstein. Jay also portrayed the villainous and scarred Paracelsus on the 1980's CBS series Beauty and the Beast and later as the character of Minister Campio the prudish and poorly chosen betrothed of Lwaxana Troi .
Voiceover roles
Notable characters Tony Jay has voiced include:
- Shere Khan the tiger from the Jungle Book and Tale Spin series (following the death of George Sanders)
- Monsieur D'arque in Beauty and the Beast
- Lickboot the lawyer in The Movie
- Chairface Chippendale in The Tick
- Megabyte in ReBoot
- Galactus and Terrax in The Fantastic Four
- Anubis in Gargoyles
- Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in this film Jay also does his character's singing)
- The Wraith in Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series
- Baron Mordo in The Animated Series
- The Elder God in the Legacy of Kain series
- Mortanius the Necromancer in Legacy of Kain(the first installment)
- Magneto in X-Men Legends
- Lord Dregg, the main villain of the final two seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 animated series)
- Lieutenant in Fallout (1997 computer game)
- The Transcendent One in Torment (1999 computer game)
- Mithras in Sacrifice (2000 computer game)
- Virgil the Lemurian in Mighty Max
- Sul-Van in The Animated Series
- Narrator in the opening sequence of Treasure Planet
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