Question about voice/live action actors,

[AndrewTS 0]

...been a voice actor/actress to voice a part for an animated TV series/movie, who afterwards ended up resuming that same role for a live action TV series or movie?

 

The question came up when a friend and I were wondering about, when Joker enters the new Batman movie series, who would play him. I haven't seen the guy lately, but Mark Hamill's name came up, who mostly does voice acting these days.

Of course, hiring him would be viewed as signing a has-been by a lot of people, regardless if he could actually pull off *looking* like him. I don't think he'd be able to even look the part, but it made me wonder if something like that has happened.

 

Obviously, with him being older and the tendency of voice actors not being viewed with the same respect as Hollywood headliners, such a situation is rare, particularly in that order.

 

Of course, it doesn't have to actually be a major Hollywood movie, just a case of a character's voice actor in an animated show playing the same character for live-action. Neither do "guest" voice overs for stuff like The Simpsons count, which usually have actors playing themselves anyway.

 

Oh, if the voice actor is voicing the role for a live action character, but isn't actually physically playing that person, it doesn't count.

 

How many can we name, folks?

[Guest SP-1]

I can't think of any.

 

However, if Mark lost some of the extra padding he's gained over the years, I'm tempted to say he could pull off the Joker in a live action capacity. He's got that sort of long, thin face kind of thing going on, and we know he'd be able to pull a crazy voice out for it.

 

And that laugh.

 

His Joker laugh gives me chills.

[griffinmills 0]

Heh heh, he does have a reconstructed face due to a car accident... right?

[starvenger 0]

I can't think of any.

 

However, if Mark lost some of the extra padding he's gained over the years, I'm tempted to say he could pull off the Joker in a live action capacity. He's got that sort of long, thin face kind of thing going on, and we know he'd be able to pull a crazy voice out for it.

 

And that laugh.

 

His Joker laugh gives me chills.

He did a voiceover of the Joker in the pilot of the short-lived "Birds of Prey" series, and among the fanboy crowd is probably considered THE definitive Joker. But for the most part, the voice actors don't really fit the actual "look" of the character. I mean, could you imagine Phil LaMarr as a live action Green Lantern?

 

Going the other way around, I know you've got Adam West, Rowan Atkinson and Sgt. Slaughter going from live to animated, don't know anyone else.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Going the other way around, I know you've got Adam West, Rowan Atkinson and Sgt. Slaughter going from live to animated, don't know anyone else.

pretty much all the main characters from Clerks

[AndrewTS 0]

He did a voiceover of the Joker in the pilot of the short-lived "Birds of Prey" series, and among the fanboy crowd is probably considered THE definitive Joker. But for the most part, the voice actors don't really fit the actual "look" of the character. I mean, could you imagine Phil LaMarr as a live action Green Lantern?

 

Or Ron Perlman as Matt Hagan?

 

Although, if Perlman can go from TV's Beast (in Beauty and the Beast) and a ton of voice acting roles to a live-action star of Hellboy, you never really know.

 

Also yeah, when casting a voice actor, first and foremost casting looks for some one with the right voice, and the hell with the actual look.

 

Although, Tommy Lee Jones obviously was trying his best Richard Moll Two-Face impression in Forever.

 

Also, yeah, often you can name ones where the situation happened in reverse, but that's the tricky part. I'm sure there's some low, low, low budget cartoon-turned-movie where it actually happened.