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Neil Ross (born c. 1945) (sometimes credited as Neilson Ross) is a British-born voice actor and announcer, now resident and working in Los Angeles, in the United States. He has provided voices for (mainly minor characters) in many American cartoons, particularly those based on Hasbro products and Marvel Comics, and numerous video games. Ross has also provided voice roles (such as radio announcers) for many movies, including Back to the Future II, Babe
, Quiz Show
, and Being John Malkovich
.

Neil Ross has announced many Emmy Award ceremonies, and started announcing at the Academy Award ceremonies, beginning with the 75th Annual Academy Awards, in 2003. He has also narrated numerous episodes of A&E's Biography, and many editions of NOVA on PBS (including Mars - Dead or Alive, which was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2004). He is presently the voice of the cable TV show Game Show Network.

Background

Neil Ross was born in London, England, and subsequently raised in Montreal, Canada. His family moved to Long Beach, California when he was 12 years old. When they moved to San Diego, a young Ross started listening religiously to KFWB, and became obsessed with becoming a disc jockey. He started working in radio when he finished school. His first station was KMUR in Salt Lake City, Utah. Following this, he moved on to KORL, KGMB and KKUA in Honolulu, Hawaii, before moving to KCBQ in San Diego in 1969. He stayed in California, working on KYA San Francisco and KMPC Los Angeles. He made his last broadcast in 1985.

He began his voiceover work in 1978 when he moved to Los Angeles. His first role was as a salesman in an episode of Richie Rich
for Hanna-Barbera. He is able to perform almost any accent, but states that his New England accent 'hangs on by a thread', and South African always defeats him. Ross has voiced radio and television commercials for companies including Wal-Mart, AT&T, Volkswagen, Coca-Cola, Mattel, Goodyear, Lexus, Disney, Hoover, Anheuser-Busch, Southwest Airlines, and Kelloggs, and has done promos for CBS, NBC, ABC, TBS and Fox Kids. He was an art director for An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
, Once Upon a Forest
, three movies of The Land Before Time
, The Prince of Egypt and We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story.

As of 2005, Neil Ross lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. He is a keen diver.
Selected voice work
Cartoons

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
- Whitley White

G.I. Joe - Shipwreck / Dusty

Galaxy High - Rotten Roland

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Vulturo

Inhumanoids - Herc Armstrong / Tank / Ssslither / Sabre Jet

Pryde of the X-Men - Wolverine

Robotix - Jerrok / Flexor / Gaxon / Steggor

Secret Squirrel - Morocco Mole

Spider-Man - Green Goblin / Norman Osborne

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron - Mac Mange

Transformers: The Movie
- Bonecrusher / Hook / Springer / Slag (voice)

Voltron - Keith / Jeff / Pidge / Chip

Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light - Leoric

Wake, Rattle and Roll - Baba Looey / Sneezly / Morocco Mole

Yo Yogi! - Morocco Mole

Movies

An American Tail
(1986) - Honest John

Babe (1995) - Additional voices

Back to the Future Part II
(1989) - Biff Tannen
Museum Narrator

Being John Malkovich
(1999) - Narrator of Malkovich
biography show
Dick Tracy
(1990) - Radio Announcer / Green Newsman
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
(1992) - Elder
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
(1990) - Announcer
Innerspace
(1987) - Pod computer voice
Quiz Show
(1994) - Twenty-One announcer

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