Dan Gilvezan
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Dan Gilvezan (born October 26, 1950) is an American voice actor and screen actor. Some characters he's recognized for portraying include Slip-Stream on G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Cooler on Pound Puppies, Colossus on Pryde of the X-Men, Pat Dugan on Justice League: Gods and Monsters and Bug-Man on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
Gilvezan holds the honor of portraying Spider-Man across numerous incarnations, including the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends cartoon series, dubbing over a live-action Spider-Man in the TV special Laugh Busters, and as Spider-Man 2099 for the video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.
He was also the official spokesman for Jack-in-the-Box restaurants in the early '80s.
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Roles
The Transformers
- Bumblebee/Goldbug
- Crewman #1 ("Transformers 40th Anniversary Event")
- Ed
- Hot Spot
- Outback ("Five Faces of Darkness")
- Robbins
- Rollbar
- Scamper
- Security guard ("Roll for It")
- Shockwave ("Transformers 40th Anniversary Event")
- Skids ("Triple Takeover" only)
- Snapdragon
Voice Actor Drama
- Bumblebee
Bee in the City 2: Electric Bugaloo
- Bumblebee
- Snapdragon
Transformers: Devastation
Convention appearances
Notes
- Gilvezan also appeared at the (unofficial) BotCon 2004 convention.
- Gilvezan has penned two books about working as a performer in Hollywood: the fiction novel Drowned in the Grenadine and the autobiographical Bumblebee and Me: Life as a G1 Transformer, the latter specifically about his days recording The Transformers and the fandom. In it, he revealed that the original spelling of his surname was "Giulvezan" (pronounced akin to "Giuseppe"), but he had to drop the "u" due to others having difficulty pronouncing it.
- According to Bumblebee and Me, Gilvezan originally auditioned for Starscream, Ratchet, and Prowl alongside Bumblebee. He was called back for Spike after having already been cast as Bumblebee (a fact he only discovered at the callback), but was not chosen for Spike due to concerns that the characters would sound too similar if he was talking to himself all the time.
- Dan's favourite episode of The Transformers was "Transport to Oblivion" because it was the first time Bumblebee and Spike really interacted.
- His favourite Transformer characters he didn't voice are Optimus Prime and Starscream.
- He prefers Bumblebee over Goldbug.
