Just some goat black voice actors

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Chris rock and Eddie Murphy

Came in this thread looking for Keith David and I was about to get on OP's case until I flipped through the initial post and saw he was there. This is still one of my favorites and a criminally underrated Disney movie.

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Kevin Michael Richardson might be the goat

How do you get started in voice over acting

Bighempin said

How do you get started in voice over acting

When you find out (or if someone else answers your question), tag me cause I wanna know too but I’m too lazy to google that sh*t

John Witherspoon did a few too (RIP)

Ron O'Neal said

Kevin Michael Richardson might be the goat

He definitely gets an honorable mention, but Principal Lewis is definitely third on the list

Black excellence

Isaac Hayes went out sad. Lost all respect for him for letting them scientology weirdos make him quit playing Chef.

Bighempin said

How do you get started in voice over acting

Same way you get started in any other kind of acting. Go to one of the hubs (LA, NY, CHI). Go pay for acting or improv classes. Compete against other people with the same dream, and try to get noticed by representation. Then if you’re lucky to make it that far they start sending you on auditions to compete on that level

Or on a smaller scale call up some local businesses that are doing small scale local commercials and volunteer to do a bunch of free/minimum pay work until you build up a portfolio that demonstrates you have what it takes to make it big. Then move to one of the hubs and start shopping your reel around to talent agencies and hope somebody likes what they hear. Then they’ll send you to audition in the big pond

Or buy some equipment. Make your own demo. Move to one of the hubs and start shopping your tape around and hope some agency takes a chance on you, and starts shopping you around

Reason I say move to a hub is because with ANYTHING in mainstream entertainment (acting, comedy, voice work) one of the major keys is you eventually gonna have to move to anyway. The key is to move to one of the places where sh*t is happening and start being social. Going to places where people have the same idea/dream, and meeting other people on the come up. You never know which new friend gonna get that shot and then put in the word for you, or vice versa. That’s why all comedians move to all the same big cities, try to get noticed at the same 5 clubs, and hang out like a clique. Same applies to anything in the mainstream arts

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This is cool but is there enough parity in the acting , voice over world..I mean it wouldn't be much different from other industries where family connections, friends, power or an athletic or rap career get you access but still interesting seeing one person doing 100s of characters? If you audition and come out the most qualified is what it is seems unbalanced though

5ive04our said

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black excellence this is the type of stuff i love to see good look op.

positive and insprational black stories.

I was expecting to see unckle rukus voice too.

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Ron O'Neal said

Kevin Michael Richardson might be the goat

Came to say this..he don't get enough respect Phil Lamar is right there too

WHATEVERMAN said

Came in this thread looking for Keith David and I was about to get on OP's case until I flipped through the initial post and saw he was there. This is still one of my favorites and a criminally underrated Disney movie.

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Keith David just does his own voice though, which is great, but Phil Lamar and Kevin Michael Richardson are the GOATs

Everybody in this scene

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Always Pleasantly happy every time I’m reminded how amazing black people are when it comes to voice acting.

09:37 PM

Roscoe lee Browne

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The Ra Expeditions (1972) as Narrator
Logan's Run (1976) as Box
The Story of Star Wars (1977) as Narrator
The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1986) as Magus (in "The Nativity")
Foofur (1986)
Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987) as Reekon / Merklynn (voice)
The Real Ghostbusters (1988–1989) as Edward 'Big Ed' Zeddemore
Oliver & Company (1988) as Francis
Ring Raiders (1989) as Narrator
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
The Pirates of Dark Water (1991)
Noel (1992) as Brutus (voice)
Batman: The Animated Series (1994) as Dr. Wataki (voice)
Freakazoid! (1995) as Great Mystic Gnome (voice)
Babe (1995) as Narrator (voice)
Spider-Man (1995–1998) as Kingpin / Wilson Fisk (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995) as Friar Ferdinand (Season 1, Episode 5 "Rumpelstiltskin")
Phantom 2040 (1995) as Old Guran (Season 2, Episode 8 "The Sins of the Fathers: Part Two")
Galapagos: Beyond Darwin (1996)
Haiti: Harvest of Hope (1997)
MouseHunt (1997) [Theatrical Trailer] (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) as The Narrator (voice)
The Wild Thornberrys (1998)
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story (2000)
Treasure Planet (2002) as Mr. Arrow (voice)
The Proud Family (2003) as Clarence (voice)
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) as Narrator (voice)
Epic Movie (2007) as Narrator (voice)
Smiley Face (2007) as Himself (voice)

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