Years active 1980s–present Name Steve Mackall | Role Announcer | |
Full Name Stephen James Mackall Residence Brentwood, California, US Other names Steven MackallSteve MackellStephen Mackall Occupation Voice actorVoice-over announcerScreenwriter Movies All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, Avenging Angelo, Annabelle's Wish, Mighty Ducks the Movie: Th, Disaster! Similar People Martyn Burke, Elie Samaha, Tarak Ben Ammar | ||
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Stephen "Steve" Mackall (born December 9, 1959) is a Canadian-American voice-over announcer, voice actor, and screenwriter, known as the voice of NBC's Must See TV", and for being the voice of the lead character of Marsupilami in both the Disney animated television series Raw Toonage (1992) and Marsupilami (1993).
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- Background
- Television voice
- Film voice
- Screenwriter
- Theater
- Recognition
- References
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Background
Mackall graduated from Padua Franciscan High School and Ohio University. After having won a trip to Los Angeles as first prize in a 1986 HBO comedy contest in Washington D.C., he decided to leave Washington and live in Los Angeles, working as a copywriter while pursuing his comedy career. He began doing voice-over work in commercials in 1989. Representative samples of his commercial work include being the voice of the cereal box for General Mills' 1993 Fingos promotion campaign, and products and companies including CompUSA and Froot Loops, as well as being voice-over announcer for NBC, The WB, and Fox Kids Network.
He is also recognised as the voice of 'Hyperman' in the Adventures of Hyperman CD Rom Game released in 1995 which was followed by the Hyperion Animation/CBS Television Series, The Adventures of Hyperman, that aired from November 4, 1995 to August 10, 1996.
Television voice
Film voice
Screenwriter
Theater
Recognition
Los Angeles Times wites that "Mackall is one of a small group of Hollywood artists who have achieved a faceless fame..." "probably best known as the voice of NBC's Must See TV", and Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote that he was "valued as an artist who can improvise voices for anything from animals to inanimate objects."
Of Mackall's one man show, Wherever I Go, There we Are. LA Weekly wrote that his "wealth of experience as a voiceover artist and comedy scribe manifests itself in his artfully layered, near flawlessly timed and often funny solo act." They noted that his personal enthusiasm connected with the ausience in a manner that reminded of Will Rogers. In their review, Backstage West wrote that when recounting the nine stories which made up his performance, "Mackall is a strong performer" whose "speaking ability commands the attention and carries the audience through captivating and well-detailed portraits of near-otherworldly scapes."