Steve Mackall


Stephen James "Steve" Mackall is a Canadian-American voice actor, voice-over announcer, comedian, director, screenwriter and songwriter. He was known as the voice of NBC's Must See TV, and performed the voice of the lead character Marsupilami in both the Disney animated television series Raw Toonage and Marsupilami.

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, ABC Kids, and Fox Kids Network.
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.

Filmography

Television voice

  • Raw Toonage as Marsupilami
  • The Pink Panther as Johnny Chucklehead
  • Marsupilami as Marsupilami
  • Duckman
  • The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show as Husband
  • The Adventures of Hyperman as Hyperman
  • Quack Pack as Vector
  • Mighty Ducks as Nosedive Flashblade
  • Timon & Pumbaa as Happy Dog
  • Digimon: Digital Monsters as Fox Kids' Digimon Announcer
  • Totally Spies! as Macker, the Safecracker
  • Mon Colle Knights a Fox Kids' Mon Colle Knights Announcer

    Film voice

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

    Screenwriter

  • Avenging Angelo
  • ''Stealing Cars''

    Theater

  • Wherever I Go, There we Are
  • ''The LAF Supper''

    Recognition

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", 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 audience 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."