Wally Wingert Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Wally Wingert
Wingert at the 2025 WonderCon
Born	Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Occupation	Voice actor DJ
Years active	1977–present

Wallace "Wally" Wingert is a talented American voice actor. He used to be a disc jockey (DJ) on the radio. You might know his voice from many popular cartoons, anime, and video games. Some of his most famous roles include Almighty Tallest Red in Invader Zim, Renji Abarai in Bleach, and the Riddler in the Batman: Arkham video games. He also voiced Jon Arbuckle in The Garfield Show and Cubot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

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About Wally Wingert

Early Life and Beginnings

Wally Wingert was born in Des Moines, Iowa. When he was young, his family moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He started his career in radio when he was just 16 years old, back in 1977. He worked as a disc jockey, playing music and talking on the air.

Moving to Los Angeles

In 1987, Wally moved to Los Angeles, California. This is a big city known for its entertainment industry. He continued his radio work there. In 1989, he even made a funny song parody for the Dr. Demento radio show. It was a parody of "Wild, Wild West" and was called "Adam West". This was a playful response to the actor Michael Keaton being cast as Batman in the 1989 movie.

From Radio to Voice Acting

Wally worked for different radio stations for many years. Eventually, he decided to focus on acting and voice acting. He has said that meeting the famous voice actor Kevin Conroy was a big inspiration for his career. Kevin Conroy was well-known for voicing Batman.

Wally's Famous Voices

Announcer and Cartoon Roles

Wally Wingert became the announcer for The Jay Leno Show. He continued this role when Jay Leno returned to The Tonight Show.

He has voiced many characters that kids and teens love.

He was the voice of Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's owner, in The Garfield Show.
He played Almighty Tallest Red in the animated series Invader Zim.
He also voiced Ant-Man / Giant-Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
In the Batman: Arkham video game series, he is the voice of the clever villain, the Riddler.
Fans of anime will know him as Renji Abarai from Bleach.
He also voiced Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger in Tiger & Bunny.
More recently, he has been the voice of Cubot in the Sonic Boom TV show and the Sonic the Hedgehog video games.

Narrator for TV Shows

Besides characters, Wally has narrated many TV shows. He told stories for shows like Impact: Stories of Survival on the Discovery Health Channel. He also narrated "How to Build Everything" on the Science Channel and "Amazing Medical Stories" on TLC.

Wally's Life Outside Work

Wally Wingert lives in Palm Springs, California. In his free time, he enjoys collecting many cool things. He collects animation art, autographs, drawings, and costumes from movies and TV shows. He also likes collecting toys and rock and roll items. It's interesting to know that he is not related to another voice actor named Mick Wingert.

Wally's Work in Movies and TV

Wally Wingert has worked on many different projects. He has done both live-action acting and a lot of voice work.

Live-Action Roles

Movies

Wally has appeared in some films, often in voice roles or smaller parts.

1999: Can of Worms – The Loafer Alien (voice)
2004: Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed – Green Eyed Skeleton Brother (voice)
2017: Chappaquiddick – Newscaster (voice)

Television Shows

He has also been in various TV shows.

1998: Power Rangers in Space – Psycho Blue (voice)
2009–14: The Jay Leno Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno – Announcer (voice)

Voice Roles

Animated Movies

Wally has lent his voice to many animated and dubbed films.

2002: Return to Never Land – Pirates Patrick
2006: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children – Rufus Shinra (English dub)
2007: Garfield Gets Real – Jon Arbuckle, Mike
2008: Space Chimps – Infinity Probe, Splork, Peppy Ham
2009: Garfield's Pet Force – Jon Arbuckle, Emperor Jon
2008–2012: Bleach: Memories of Nobody, Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion, Bleach: Fade to Black, Bleach: Hell Verse – Renji Abarai (English dub)
2013–2015: Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning, Tiger & Bunny: The Rising – Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger (English dub)
2016: Alice Through the Looking Glass – Humpty Dumpty
2016–2017: Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, Batman vs. Two-Face – Riddler
2019: Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus – Almighty Tallest Red

Anime Series

He is a very active voice actor in anime.

2001: Transformers: Robots in Disguise – Side Burn, Mirage
2004–2007: Astro Boy – Dr. O'Shay, others
2006–2014: Bleach – Renji Abarai, Tsubaki
2007–2014: Naruto: Shippuden – Aoba Yamashiro
2012–2022: Tiger & Bunny – Kotetsu T. Kaburagi / Wild Tiger
2022–present: Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – Renji Abarai

Animated TV Shows

Wally has voiced characters in many popular cartoons.

1996–2003: Dexter's Laboratory – Additional voices
1999–2017: Family Guy – Additional voices
2001–2003: Invader Zim – Almighty Tallest Red, additional voices
2008–2016: The Garfield Show – Jon Arbuckle, additional voices
2010–2012: The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes – Hank Pym / Ant-Man / Giant-Man / Yellowjacket, MODOK
2014–2017: Sonic Boom – Cubot, Nominatus, others

Video Games

Wally Wingert has a huge list of video game voice credits.

1990: The Secret of Monkey Island – Biff the Ghost, Herman Toothrot
2002: Command & Conquer: Renegade – Nick "Havoc" Parker
2006–present: Naruto series – Aoba Yamashiro, Mū (English dub)
2006–present: Bleach series – Renji Abarai (English dub)
2009–2024: Batman: Arkham series – Riddler
2010–present: Sonic the Hedgehog series – Cubot
2011–2017: Marvel vs. Capcom series – MODOK
2018: Lego DC Super-Villains – Riddler
2019: Team Sonic Racing – Cubot
2023: Street Fighter 6 – JP

Commercials

Wally also voiced the mascot for H. H. Gregg stores from 2008 to 2012.

Wally Wingert facts for kids