Occupation Actor Years active 1955–1997 | Name Stan Jones Role Film actor | |
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Born October 23, 1926 ( 1926-10-23 ) Toronto, Ontario, Canada Other names G. Stanley Jones
Staley Jones
Stanley Jones Died December 30, 1998, Los Angeles, California, United States Movies and TV shows Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, The Pebble and the Penguin, Challenge of the Super Fri, The Transformers: The Movie, The Transformers Similar People Bruno Bianchi, Gary Goldman, Nelson Shin, Don Bluth, Ken Spears | ||
Gordon Stan Jones (October 23, 1926 – December 30, 1998), sometimes credited as G. Stanley Jones, Staley Jones or Stanley Jones, was a Canadian film and television actor.
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Early life
He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Career
Jones appeared in over thirty television productions and in eight films. He did extensive voice acting. He was the narrator of the film Little Shop of Horrors (1986). One of his few non-voice roles was as a teller in an episode of the television series Beverly Hills, 90210.
Stan Jones is best known as the voice of Lex Luthor, the Superman villain and leader of The Legion of Doom, in the Hanna-Barbera television series Challenge Of The Super Friends, as well as voicing the characters Scourge, Lord Zarak and Weirdwolf in the television series The Transformers. He also played the voices of Kingpin and Doctor Octopus in the 1981 Spider-Man animated series produced by DePatie-Freleng. Additionally, he voiced the Milkman, Wordsworth and Riff Raff characters in the television series Heathcliff (also known as Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats) and in the 1995 Don Bluth movie The Pebble and the Penguin as Mccalister.
Death
He died, age 72, of complications from cancer in Los Angeles, California.