Steve Mackall | |
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Born |
Stephen James Mackall December 9, 1959 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Residence | Brentwood, California, US |
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Years active | 1980s–present |
Website | http://www.stevemackall.com |
Stephen "Steve" Mackall (born December 9, 1959) is a Canadian-American voice-over announcer, voice actor, and screenwriter, known as the voice of NBC's Must See TV", and for being the voice of the lead character of Marsupilami in both the Disney animated television series Raw Toonage (1992) and Marsupilami (1993).
Mackall graduated from Padua Franciscan High School and Ohio University. After having won a trip to Los Angeles as first prize in a 1986 HBO comedy contest in Washington D.C., he decided to leave Washington and live in Los Angeles, working as a copywriter while pursuing his comedy career. He began doing voice-over work in commercials in 1989. Representative samples of his commercial work include being the voice of the cereal box for General Mills' 1993 Fingos promotion campaign, and products and companies including CompUSA and Froot Loops, as well as being voice-over announcer for NBC, The WB, and Fox Kids Network.
He is also recognised as the voice of 'Hyperman' in the Adventures of Hyperman CD Rom Game released in 1995 which was followed by the Hyperion Animation/CBS Television Series, The Adventures of Hyperman, that aired from November 4, 1995 to August 10, 1996.