Earl Hammond

Earl Hammond
Character(s) Portrayed:	Jaga (ThunderCats) Mumm-Ra (ThunderCats) Mon*Star (SilverHawks)
Date Of Birth:	June 17, 1921
Date Of Death:	May 19, 2002
External Link(s):	Earl Hammond on IMDb Earl Hammond on Wikipedia

Earl Hammond was an American actor and voice actor. He was born Erwin Saul Hamburger in New York. He started his career as a radio actor and then went on to star in a number of TV series as well as appearing in three Broadway plays.

Late in his career, he became a voice actor, supplying voice-overs for the TV series Star Blazers, The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Dr. Seuss Beginner Book Video, Silverhawks, and ThunderCats. He provided the voice of Mumm-Ra, Jaga, and several other characters on ThunderCats.

ThunderCats (original series) Related Credits

Note, no official listing of character credits is currently publicly available, so this is a best guess list.

• Voiced: All four seasons, 130 episodes.
  • Jaga
  • Mumm-Ra
  • Ro-Bear-Bill
  • Ro-Bear-Belle
  • Hammerhand
  • Baron Karnor
  • Snowman
  • Vultureman
  • Claudus
  • Ninja
  • Captain Cracker
  • Spidera
  • Turmagar
  • Amok
  • Ancient Spirits of Evil
  • Merlin
  • Kymera
  • Frogman

SilverHawks Related Credits

Note, no official listing of character credits is currently publicly available, so this is a best guess list.

• Voiced: Full Season, 65 episodes.
  • Mon*Star

TigerSharks Related Credits

Note, no official listing of character voice credits are currently publicly available, so their role(s) are unknown at this time.

• Voiced: Full Season, 26 shows.

Notable Credits

Credits taken from IMDb, and is meant to only be a brief list of highlights of their career.

• Rocky King, Detective (TV Series) - Acted for eight episodes (1952)
• Star Blazers (TV Series) - Voice Acted for twenty-five episodes (1979)
• Thunderbirds 2086 (TV Series) - Voice Acted for twenty-four episodes (1982, 2008)
• The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (TV Movie) - Voice Acted (1985)
• Noël (TV Movie) - Voice Acted (1992)

Trivia

• Pope John Paul II personally selected him to be his "voice" on the audio book made from the Pope's book "Crossing the Threshold of Hope".
• He provided the voice of Megatron in a series of read-along Transformers book and record sets from the mid-1980s.