Tony Jay
Born: 1933-02-02 in London, England, UK
Died: 2006-08-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
Tony Jay was an acclaimed British-American actor, voice artist, and singer. He was widely celebrated for his remarkably deep, distinctive baritone voice. His deep register made him a definitive talent for portraying sophisticated, authoritative, and sinister villains across television, film, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Claude Frollo in Walt Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the virus Megabyte in the award-winning CGI animated series ReBoot. A former member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, Jay built a decades-long legacy as one of the most memorable voice actors in modern entertainment history.
Filmography
2007
- Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation as Narrator (voice)
2006
- Me, Eloise as (voice)
- Where My Dogs At?
2005
- Once Upon a Halloween as Judge Claude Frollo (voice) (archive sound)
- Spider-Man: The Venom Saga as Baron Mordo (voice)
2004
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends as Spiderus Reeves
- H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer as Narrator (voice)
2003
- Teen Titans as Narrator (voice)
- The Jungle Book 2 as Shere Khan (voice)
- Rugrats Go Wild as Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids as Spiderus Reeves (voice)
2002
- Treasure Planet as Narrator (voice)
- Ocean Men, Extreme Dive as Narrator (voice)
- Adventures in Odyssey: The Caves of Qumran as Fred J. Faustus (voice)
2001
- The Legend of Tarzan as Poacher (voice)
- Disney's House of Mouse as Magic Mirror (voice)
- Lloyd in Space as Dr. Werner Von Brain (voice)
- Recess: School's Out as Dr. Rosenthal (voice)
- Race to Space as Narrator (voice)
- ReBoot: My Two Bobs as Megabyte (voice)
2000
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Dr. Animus (voice)
- Civil War Combat as Narrator
1999
- Providence
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Xyber 9: New Dawn as Machestro (voice)
1998
- The Rugrats Movie as Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
- Invasion America as Dragit (voice)
- An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island as Toplofty (voice)
- Dragon Friend as The Dragon (voice)
1997
- Extreme Ghostbusters
- Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off as Wraith (voice)
- Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie as Jarlesburg (voice) (archive footage)
- Puss in Boots as Narrator (voice)
1996
- Hey Arnold! as Dr. Lipman (voice)
- Superman: The Animated Series as Sul-Van (voice)
- Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series as Wraith (voice)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Frollo (voice)
- Bruno the Kid as Jarlesburg (voice)
- All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 as Reginald (voice)
- Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
- Superman: The Last Son of Krypton as Sul-Van (voice)
- Jungle Cubs (Volume 1): Born to be Wild as (Voice)
1995
- The Savage Dragon as Overlord (voice)
1994
- Spider-Man as Baron Mordo (voice)
- Gargoyles as Anubis (voice)
- Duckman as Teacher (voice)
- Aladdin
- Fantastic Four as Galactus/Terrax (voice)
- The Tick as Chairface Chippendale (voice)
- ReBoot as Megabyte (voice)
- Beethoven as Watson (voice)
- Thumbelina as Cow (voice)
- Skeleton Warriors as Narrator (voice)
- Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights as Additional Voices (voice)
1993
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Nigel St. John
- Animaniacs as Narrator (voice)
- The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Judge Silot Gatt
- 2 Stupid Dogs as Double-Q (voice)
- Mighty Max as Virgil (voice)
- Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert as Wilfred Plimsoll
1992
- Picket Fences as Chief Rabbi
- Tom and Jerry: The Movie as Lickboot (voice)
- Jonah as God (voice)
1991
- Rugrats as Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
- Beauty and the Beast as Monsieur D'Arque (voice)
- Darkwing Duck as Grim Reaper (voice)
- Eerie, Indiana as Sir Boris von Orloff
- Absolute Strangers as Weisfeld
- Sisters
- Beasties as Frankie
1990
- Twin Peaks as Dougie Milford
- Tom & Jerry Kids Show as Narrator (voice)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Yeti (voice)
- TaleSpin as Shere Khan (voice)
- Peter Pan & the Pirates
- Talespin: Plunder & Lightning as Shere Khan (voice)
- The Easter Story as Caiaphas (voice)
- Rainbow Drive as Max Hollister
1988
- Murphy Brown as Dr. Wade Benoit
- Twins as Werner
- My Stepmother Is an Alien as Council Chief
1987
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Third Minister Campio
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Dregg (voice)
- Beverly Hills Buntz as Sheik Mohammed
- Little Dorrit as Doctor
- Beauty and the Beast as Paracelsus
1986
- Matlock as John Bosley Hackett
1985
- The Golden Girls as Laszlo
- Mr. Belvedere
- Dempsey and Makepeace as Abe Moser
1984
- Night Court as Joseph Schiavelli
- Hunter as Father Michaels
- Who's the Boss?
1982
- Newhart as Reginald Wooster
- The Agatha Christie Hour as Count Streplitch
1981
- Time Bandits as Supreme Being (voice)
- Timon of Athens as Merchant
1980
- Escape as Colonel Jalbout
1978
- The Greek Tycoon as Doctor
1977
- The Professionals as Foreign Observer
- My Way II
1976
- The XYY Man as Jacob Mahler
1975
- The Sweeney as Lambourne
- Love and Death as Vladimir Maximovitch
- The Hanged Man as Laszlo
- Children of Rage
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Tsar Alexander III
- Affairs of the Heart as Sir Luke Strett
1972
- Six Days of Justice as Edwin Lovatt
- The Winners as Natie Kaplan
- Leatherlip
1971
- Justice as Mr. Papalonios
1970
- Lied in my Hart as Rudi
- Taxi! as Red Kowalski