Cam Clarke

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Cam Clarke
Born Cameron Arthur Clarke
November 6, 1957 (1957-11-06) (age 54)
Burbank, California, U.S.
Other names James Flinders, Jimmy Flinders, Kelly Brewster, Cameron Charles, Cameron A. Clarke
Occupation Voice actor/Singer
Years active 1970–present
Agent Sutton, Barth and Vennari
Religion Latter-Day Saint
Website
http://www.camclarke.com/

Cameron Arthur "Cam" Clarke (born November 6, 1957) is a prolific American voice actor and singer, well known for his work in animation and video games. Clarke is well known for providing the voices of Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original English-dub of Akira. He often voices teenagers and other similarly young characters. In Mormon circles, Clarke is best known as the original "Jimmy Flinders" character during the 1970s, from the hit LDS musical, Saturday's Warrior. He is also known as the voice of Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear video game series.

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[edit] Career

Cam Clarke began his acting career in the show The Hollywood Palace and later in The King Family Show. He continued to perform with his family on various TV specials until the 1980s when he got his first voice acting roles in the animated shows Snorks and Robotech. Clarke was taught by established voice actor Michael Bell.

Clarke is best known for his roles as Kaneda in Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (Streamline-dub), Max Sterling and Lancer in the 1985 Robotech series, Rigadon in Around the World with Willy Fog, Dogtanian in Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds, Leonardo and Rocksteady in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, and Liquid Snake in the popular Metal Gear Solid series of video games. Clarke is also the voice of Prince Adam and He-Man in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He is also known to RPG fans as Ryudo in Grandia II, Kratos Aurion in "Tales of Symphonia" and Will Raynard in "Tales of Legendia." He voices the male Blood Elf in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. He uses a voice similar to Liquid Snake's for this portrayal. To date, Clarke has voiced over one hundred titles. Cam is easily recognizable by his distinct voice which can fluctuate from adolescent sounding (Leonardo) to deep and soothing (Kratos) and to a faux British (Liquid Snake).

[edit] Personal life

Born in 1957 to actor Robert Clarke and singer Alyce King, he is nephew to guitarist Alvino Rey and pianist Buddy Cole, cousin to actress Tina Cole and writer Chris Conkling and half brother to musicians Ric and Lex de Azevedo.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Anime

[edit] Other animated roles

[edit] Live action

[edit] Theater

[edit] Movies

[edit] Video games

[edit] Audiobook

  • The Mystery of Smuggler's Cove (1985) Hardy Boys audiobook – all characters

[edit] References

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