Cam Clarke facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Cam Clarke
Clarke at the 2014 Calgary Expo
Other names	James Flinders Jimmy Flinders Kelly Brewster Cameron Charles Cam Clark Clark Kelly Adam Nevel
Occupation	Voice actor
Years active	1964–present
Agent	Sutton, Barth and Vennari
Family	Lex de Azevedo (half-brother) Alvino Rey (uncle) Pat Fraley (cousin) Buddy Cole (uncle) Tina Cole (cousin)

Cam Clarke is an American voice actor, known for his work in animation, video games and commercials. Among his notable roles are Leonardo and Rocksteady in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original Streamline Pictures English dub of Akira, and Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear series. He often serves as a voice double for Matthew Broderick and served as Broderick's singing voice of Simba in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride.

Career

Clarke began his acting career in The Hollywood Palace as The King Family Show. He continued to perform with his family on various television specials until the 1980s when he got his first voice acting roles in Snorks and Robotech. He was taught by Michael Bell.

To date, Clarke has voiced over four hundred titles. From 1987 until 1996, Cam Clarke would most notably portray Leonardo, the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Rocksteady, one of the show's antagonists. Clarke would reprise the role of Leonardo in non-musical spoken portions of the first show of the TMNT: Coming Out of Their Shells concerts designed around the Ninja Turtle characters held at Radio City Music Hall, though the later VHS tape released of the event leaves him uncredited.

Personal life

Clarke is the nephew to guitarist Alvino Rey and pianist Buddy Cole, cousin to actress Tina Cole, actor and TMNT co-star Pat Fraley, and writer Chris Conkling, half brother to musicians Ric and Lex de Azevedo, and uncle to voice actress Emilie Brown and actress Rachel Coleman.

Clarke is gay, and his experiences inspired his album Inside Out, which changed pronouns in lyrics of classic songs and his one-man autobiographical play Stop Me If I Told You This.

Clarke is a survivor of HIV, having lived with it for decades.

Filmography

Animation

Anime dubbing

Films

Feature films

• Akira – Shōtarō Kaneda, Councilman 1, Scientist 2 (as Jimmy Flinders, Streamline dub)
• Aladdin – Aladdin, additional voices
• A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures – Seagull
• A Turtle's Tale 2: Sammy's Escape from Paradise – Seagull 1 (as Clark Kelly)
• Barnyard: The Original Party Animals – Freddy
• Big Hero 6 – Additional voices
• Clifford's Really Big Movie - Mark Howard, Marcus
• Hotel Transylvania – Additional voices
• Peter-No-Tail in Americat - Peter-No-Tail
• Pinocchio – Talking Cricket, The Fox and the Cat, Candlewick
• Suzume – Hitsujirō Munakata
• Tales of the Black Freighter – Money Lender
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie – Robert the Terrible, The King
• The Smurfs and the Magic Flute – Peewit (U.S. dub)
• Tooth Fairy – Voice Cast
• Underdog – Supershep, Little Brown Dog
• Warriors of the Wind – Prince Milo

Direct-to-video and television films

• Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion – Yasochika Iemura (English Version)
• Codename: Kids Next Door - Operation: Z.E.R.O. - Additional voices
• Dot and Spot's Magical Christmas – Spot
• The GodThumb – Adopted Lawyer Son
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer – Austin Bucks
• Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite – Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter
• The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit - Peter Rabbit
• The Lion King 1½ – Additional voices
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride – Simba (singing voice)
• The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea – Flounder
• Monster High: Fright On! – Heath Burns, HooDude VooDoo, Van Hellscream, Romulus
• Monster High: Why Do Ghouls Fall in Love? – Heath Burns, Mr. Rotter, Hep Clouds, Valentine's Mother
• Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores – Heath Burns, Ghost
• Monster High: Ghouls Rule – Heath Burns, Mr Rotter, Goon No. 2
• Monster High - Scaris: City of Frights – Heath Burns, Mr. Rotter
• Monster High: 13 Wishes – Heath Burns, Mr Rotter, narrator
• Monster High: Friday Night Frights – Heath Burns, Romulus
• Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action! – Heath Burns, Mr Rotter, Ygor, Hoodude Voodoo, Vampire Dignitary No. 3, Crow No. 1
• Monster High: Freaky Fusion – Heath Burns, Mr Rotter, Hoodube Voodoo
• Monster High: Haunted – Heath Burns, Ghost Student, Mr Rotter, Hoodude Voodoo
• Monster High: Boo York, Boo York – Heath Burns, Hoodude Voodoo, Mr Rotter
• Mosaic – Stephan
• Mulan II – Loop Group
• Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow – Sōsetsu Kazahana
• The Nuttiest Nutcracker – The Prince
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island – Detective Beau Neville

Video games

Live action

• Flip That House – Narrator
• Walker, Texas Ranger – A.R.T.
• Troops – Captain Jyanix Bach
• True Blood – Narrator, Vampire Vocal Effects
• Tales from the Crypt – Dudley Pig, Bailiff Wolf
• Hawaii Five-0 – Season seven, voice of Steve McGarrett (as Jack Lord).
• IZombie – Zombie vocalizations

Audiobooks

• The Mystery of Smuggler's Cove (1985) Hardy Boys

Theater

• Noah: The Musical – Citizen of Land of Nod
• Stop Me If I Told You This – Himself

Other

• The Dark Crystal – Jen (read-along cassette story recording)
• "The World of Snoopy" – Snoopy (Animatronic toy and read-along cassette series)
• Circle of Life: An Environmental Fable – Simba
• American Psycho – FanMoy

Staff work

• Christmas with the King Family – Consulting Producer
• Labyrinth of Crete – Casting Director
• Lego Batman: The Movie – DC Super Heroes Unite – Casting and Voice Director
• Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes – Voice Director
• Rachel & the TreeSchoolers – Character Voice Casting Director

Discography

• Inside Out (1999)
• Return to Pride Rock: Songs Inspired by Disney's The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
• Saturday's Warrior (Original Cast Recording) (1978)