![]() The deep, rumbling sound mixed with a commanding yet. At this point, Peter Cullens Optimus Prime voice is undeniably iconic. Kaye's favourite character in Beast Wars was Tarantulas. Peter Cullens Optimus Prime voice comes from a personal place.Every year, on his YouTube channel, David Kaye gives Christmas greetings, partially in character as Megatron.Kaye reprised his role as Beast Wars Megatron for a parody in the Robot Chicken Season 9 episode "Factory Where Nuts Are Handled".As noted in the caption above, he's the only actor who's played Superman, Captain America and Optimus Prime.When Transformers fan Moosetron was dying of leukemia in late 2013, Kaye recorded a private video greeting for him as a final Christmas gift, partially done in character as Armada Galvatron, along with Steve Blum.He has been known to oblige requests at conventions to sing the Sesame Street Rubber Ducky song in his Beast Wars Megatron voice.Kaye was interviewed as a special feature for Kid Rhino's Beast Machines The Complete Series DVD set, and also on Madman Entertainment's Beast Wars season 3 box set.Kaye has described his take on Megatron as being "a cross between Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, and a lizard".Ironically, when auditioning for Beast Wars, Kaye originally read for the role of Optimus Primal while Garry Chalk read for the sinister Megatron.Kaye has also lent his voice to eight separate Transformers series, the most for any single Transformers voice actor. He is the only voice actor who has voiced both Optimus Prime and Megatron as regular roles.Irate Citizen (" Garbage In, Garbage Out").Nature Show Narrator ("Home Is Where the Spark Is").Technician 1 (" Transform and Roll Out").In 2007, he moved to the US, joining the American voice acting union in LA and now does voice over work exclusively in the States. Kaye originally began his voice acting career as a member of the Canadian voice acting union, doing voice over work out of Vancouver. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and voiced all those commercials for Enzyte featuring the eternally-creepily-smiling "Bob". In the world of dubbing, Kaye has played Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Sesshomaru in InuYasha and Recoome in the Ocean Group dub of Dragon Ball Z. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, and Patrick O'Hara (father to Scarlett) in G.I. Joe franchise, having voiced General Hawk in both the final season of G.I. Some of his more popular roles in the world of animation include Professor Xavier in X-Men Evolution, Khyber and several Omnitrix aliens and characters in Ben 10: Omniverse (and later Grandpa Max, Shock Rock, and Humungousaur in the 2016 reboot along with a few others), Clank in the Ratchet & Clank franchise, Rock Miner in Rescue Heroes, Superman and Hawkman in DC Super Friends, and he's well known within the G.I. Hope on October 14, 1964) is a Canadian voice actor and, man, he is in everything. For a Canadian, he sure does play a lot of American superheroes.ĭavid Kaye (born David V.
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