Keith Scott (voice actor)

Keith Scott is an Australian voice actor, comedian, impressionist and animation historian.

Career

At a young age, Scott was always enchanted by the mimics and impressionists on The Ed Sullivan Show. He began developing his ability to impersonate voices at The Forest High School, doing cartoon characters and teacher's voices. In October 1972, just after leaving school, Scott was hired by William Hanna, the head of Hanna-Barbera, which had established a large animation studio in Sydney, Australia. He got the gig when he brought in some letters that he had received from Daws Butler in December 1970. Scott worked at the H-B office as a xerographer. Hanna gave him a letter of recommendation when he was retrenched from the H-B office, and his name was such a credible one that it got Scott an instant agent, and his voice-over career began. In 1974, Scott began doing either impersonations or original character voices in many anonymous radio and television commercials, and was promoted at Sydney clubs as "the Voice of 1000 Commercials". He was also approved by Hanna-Barbera to do the voices of Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear and others for Australian commercials, and later live shows at Wonderland Sydney for 15 years.
Scott also made many appearances on television shows as a comic impressionist, including Hey Hey It's Saturday and The Midday Show. In 1984, he began working for Yoram Gross Film Studios, usually providing most or all of the male character voices for their various productions, including the Dot feature films, The Magic Riddle, Blinky Bill, Tabaluga, Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown and Flipper & Lopaka. In 1986, he starred on the radio program How Green Was My Cactus, alongside his Yoram Gross co-star Robyn Moore, skewering the reputations of media and political figures.
Scott became internationally famous for his expert "matching" of cartoon characters. In July 1990, he was appointed an official licensed voice of Warner Bros' Looney Tunes characters for Australia, following the death of Mel Blanc in 1989, and since then he did Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester the Cat and the rest for countless animated television commercials, live shows and promotions for Warner Bros. Movie World, Westfield, KFC, etc. Scott had narrated a television promotion for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie in 1983, and met Blanc in May 1985, taping some impersonations for the Triple M network and trading blows with their voice impressions; he did Elmer Fudd and Jack Benny, while Blanc did Bugs and Sy the Mexican.
Scott was a long-time friend of Bill Scott and Jay Ward, whom Scott had met in 1973. In 1991, a couple of years after Ward died in 1989, his daughter Tiffany took over Jay Ward Productions and began revitalizing the The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends characters. At that time Scott had made a tape of all the imitations of Bullwinkle J. Moose, Boris Badenov, Dudley Do-Right and a lot of the supporting characters in March of that year. Tiffany got a copy of the tape from June Foray. Upon hearing the tape, she realized that Scott had studied it for years, so she and Ward's wife Ramona appointed him the official voices in 1992. Scott performed the voice of the narrator in George of the Jungle and George of the Jungle 2, and provided the voices for Bullwinkle, Boris, Fearless Leader, The Narrator and the RBTV Announcer in the 2000 motion picture The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. He is an expert on the history of Jay Ward Productions, authoring the book The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose, published by St. Martin's Press. Also in 2000, Scott was originally cast as the voice of Diesel 10 in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, but was replaced early on with Joe Matheson, who was himself ultimately replaced with Neil Crone in the final film; Scott had also narrated the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends toy merchandise commercials from Bluebird Toys in Australia in 1998.
Scott has also spent years studying the work of early voice actors, trying to identify performers who originally went uncredited in cartoons, and authoring the 2022 book Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 1-2, published by BearManor Media.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Epic	Special vocal effects	Theatrical film
1985	Dot and the Koala	Bruce, Mayor Percy, Sherlock Bones, Watson and various	Theatrical film
1986	Dot and Keeto	Keeto, Butterwalk, Atlantis, Grasshopper and various	Theatrical film
1986	Dot and the Whale	Nelson, Owen and Moby Dick	Theatrical film
1987	Dot and the Smugglers	Mr. Sprag, Scarface	Theatrical film
1987	Frenchman's Farm	Radio Announcer	Theatrical film
1987	The Adventures of Candy Claus	Santa Claus, Head Elf, Elves, Mustknow Computer, Professor Mustknow, Oh No, Lou and Sam	Television movie
1987	Dot Goes to Hollywood	Gumley, Grumblebones, Laurel and Hardy and various	Theatrical film
1988	Black Tulip		Theatrical film
1988	Hiawatha		Television movie
1988	Peter Pan	Mr. Smee	Theatrical film
1988	Alice in Wonderland	White Rabbit, March Hare, Dodo and Card Painter	Theatrical film
1988	Around the World in 80 Days	Phileas Fogg, Bank Robber, Club Member, Italian Waiter, British Consul, Egyptian Villagers, Bombay Superintendent, Calcutta Police Officer, Calcutta Jailer, Driver, Mr. Mudge, Coachman and Captain Speedy	Theatrical film
1991	The Magic Riddle	Philippe, Widow, Pinocchio, Seven Dwarves and various	Theatrical film
1992	Blinky Bill The Mischievous Koala	Splodge the Kangaroo, Flap the Platypus, Mr Wombat, Mayor Pelican, Mr Emu, Jacko, Harry and Joe	Theatrical film
1994	Dot in Space	Grumblebones, Buster, Papa Drop, Roly, Professor Globus, Inflato, Sergeant, Soldiers and various	Theatrical film
1997	Go to Hell!!	Various	Theatrical film
1997	George of the Jungle	Narrator	Theatrical film
1997	Paws	Computer	Theatrical film
1997	Joey	Additional voices	Theatrical film
1999	Fractured Fairy Tales: The Phox, the Box & the Lox	The Phox and The Lox	Theatrical short film attached with Dudley Do-Right
2000	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	Bullwinkle J. Moose, Animated Boris Badenov, Animated Fearless Leader, The Narrator and RBTV Announcer	Theatrical film
2000	Thomas and the Magic Railroad	Thomas the Tank Engine, Gordon the Big Engine and Diesel 10	Original workprints only, replaced by Neil Crone
2000	The Magic Pudding	Additional voices	Theatrical film
2003	Subterano	Puppeteer	Theatrical film
2003	George of the Jungle 2	Narrator	Direct-to-video
2005	Blinky Bill's White Christmas	Flap the Platypus, Splodge the Kangaroo, Wombo, Mayor Pelican and various	Television movie
2007	Gumnutz: A Juicy Tale	Uncle Kelvin, Ghoulie Gilly, Grampala and additional voices	Television movie
2008	Australia	Newsreel Announcers	Theatrical film
2009	Daybreakers	Additional voices	Theatrical film

Television

Year	Title	Role
1959–1961	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends	The Narrator
1975–1976	Kum-Kum	Jumbo, Strongarm, The Wise One, Additional Voices
1983–1989	Perfect Match	Announcer, Dexter the Robot
1988–1989	Bright Sparks	Sparky
1992–1995	Lift Off	Additional Voices
1993–2004	The Adventures of Blinky Bill	Flap the Platypus, Splodge the Kangaroo, Wombo, Mr. Koala, Mayor Pelican, Danny Dingo, Meatball Dingo, Shifty Dingo, Various Voices
1997–2003	Tabaluga	Arktos, Shouhu, Tyrion, Ruby, James, Vultur, Attila the Walrus, Various Voices
1998	Skippy: Adventures in Bushtown	Mayor Croco, Professor Angus McPouch, Brusier, Sirlion, Damon, Rowdy, Honest L. Slick, Pos, Major Winston Gelles, Rocky Star, Various Voices
1999–2005	Flipper & Lopaka	Flipper, Ottie, Ray, Puffy, Dexter, Serge, Sharks, Various Voices
2000	2000 Kids' Choice Awards	Bullwinkle J. Moose
2001–2002	Fairy Tale Police Department	Various Voices
2002	Old Tom	Old Tom, Various Voices
2006–2007	Staines Down Drains	Vegety Bill, Blobert, Bratwurst, Twinky Lupe, Various Voices
2009–2010	Dennis the Menace and Gnasher	Gnasher, Dad, Colonel, Sergeant Slipper, Mr. Har Har, Additional Voices
2009–2010	Legend of Enyo	Quag Naga
2009–2013	Sally Bollywood: Super Detective	Harry Bollywood, Additional Voices
2013	Ghosts of Time	Theo, Additional Voices
2018–present	Nate Is Late	Dwayne, Jumbo, Ogre
2021	Tales of Aluna	Johnny Tuff, Barabajagal, Mellow Yellow, Shark, Additional Voices
2023	2023 Australian Open	Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety

Awards

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards, were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Keith Scott won three awards in that time.