Jack Angel
Biography
Jack Angel was an American voice actor who spent nearly two decades as a radio disc jockey in California, including at KMPC and KFI, before moving into animation full time. Born in Modesto, he graduated from San Francisco State University in 1957 and began experimenting with voiceovers during his broadcasting career. In the mid-1970s he voiced Hawkman, the Flash, and Samurai on Super Friends, and made guest appearances on The Smurfs and Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. For the Transformers series he played Astrotrain, Smokescreen, Ramjet, and Omega Supreme, then reprised Ramjet and Astrotrain in the 1986 film The Transformers: The Movie before later voicing Ultra Magnus and Cyclonus. He supplied voices for films including Balto (1995), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), The Iron Giant (1999), Aladdin (1992), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Toy Story (1995), and Toy Story 2 (1999), and narrated the video game Killer7. He also voiced Papa Smurf in television specials.
90years old at death
- Born Modesto
- Died Malibu
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
Movie Career
- Films
- 30
- Career span
- 27 years1986 to 2013
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Big break
Angel's demo tape reached agent Gary Owens while Angel was still a disc jockey at KMPC, and Owens forwarded it to his own agent, which led to Angel's voice acting career.
First role
Angel began his voice-over work in the mid-1970s on Super Friends, playing Hawkman, The Flash and Samurai across several related series.
A change of course
A decade later, Angel had grown into one of the most popular radio personalities, and his programs aired on KMPC and KFI in Los Angeles.
Jack Angel movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
John Lasseter directed two of these films, John Musker two and Ron Clements two. Frank Welker appears in ten of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Frank Welker's page
Bob Bergen's page
Corey Burton's page
Charlie Adler's page
Jennifer Darling's page
Rodger Bumpass's page
All films by John Lasseter
All films by John Musker
All films by Ron Clements
Also five films together2 more actors
- Sherry LynnThe Lorax (2012), Tarzan (1999), Quest for Camelot (1998), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) and DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
- Mickie McGowanThe Lorax (2012), Quest for Camelot (1998), An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991), DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Jack Angel's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$5.5 billion
23 of the 30 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 30 films: 23 worldwide figure; 2 never in cinemas; 5 figure not found.
- 23Worldwide figure
- 2Never in cinemas
- 5Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 84% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$971M17.6% of the total
- 2$962M17.4% of the total
- 3Monsters, Inc.2001$580M10.5% of the total
- 4$504M9.1% of the total
- 5$497M9.0% of the total
- 6Tarzan1999$448M8.1% of the total
- 7$349M6.3% of the total
- 8$325M5.9% of the total
$882 millionfrom the other 15 films with a worldwide figure, 16% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.