Steve Mackall

Stephen James "Steve" Mackall (born December 9, 1959) is a Canadian-American voice actor, voice-over announcer, comedian, director, screenwriter and songwriter.^[1] He was known as the voice of NBC's Must See TV,^[1] and performed the voice of the lead character Marsupilami in both the Disney animated television series Raw Toonage (1992) and Marsupilami (1993).^[2]

Mackall graduated from Padua Franciscan High School and Ohio University.^[3] After having won a trip to Los Angeles as first prize in a 1986 HBO comedy contest in Washington D.C.,^[3] he decided to leave Washington and live in Los Angeles, working as a copywriter while pursuing his comedy career.^[1][3] He began doing voice-over work in commercials in 1989.^[1] Representative samples of his commercial work include being the voice of the cereal box for General Mills' 1993 Fingos promotion campaign,^[4] and products and companies including CompUSA and Froot Loops, as well as being voice-over announcer for NBC, The WB, ABC Kids, and Fox Kids Network.^[3]

He is also recognized 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.^[5][6]

• Raw Toonage (12 episodes, 1992) as Marsupilami
• The Pink Panther (2 episodes, 1993) as Johnny Chucklehead
• Marsupilami (13 episodes, 1993) as Marsupilami
• Duckman (1 episode, 1994)
• The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show (1 episode, 1995) as Husband
• The Adventures of Hyperman (1995) as Hyperman
• Quack Pack (1 episode, 1996) as Vector
• Mighty Ducks (26 episodes, 1996-1997) as Nosedive Flashblade
• Timon & Pumbaa (4 episodes, 1995-1999) as Happy Dog
• Digimon: Digital Monsters (1 episode, 2001) as Fox Kids' Digimon Announcer
• Totally Spies! (1 episode, 2001) as Macker, the Safecracker
• Mon Colle Knights (2001) a Fox Kids' Mon Colle Knights Announcer

• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) as Short Customs Dog
• Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997) as Nosedive
• Annabelle's Wish (1997) as Owliver
• The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998) as Dr. Valentine
• Dead Man on Campus (1998) as TV Show Host (live acting)
• Disaster! (2006) as V.D. Johnson / Astronomer

• Avenging Angelo (2002)^[7]
• Stealing Cars (2015)

• Wherever I Go, There we Are^[8]
• The LAF Supper^[8]

Los Angeles Times writes 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",^[1] and Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote that he was "valued as an artist who can improvise voices for anything from animals to inanimate objects."^[3]

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 audience in a manner that reminded of Will Rogers.^[8] 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."^[9]

• Steve Mackall at IMDb