Gary Owens

Gary Owens
Background information
Born	Gary Altman May 10, 1936 (aged 77) Mitchell, South Dakota, U.S.
Occupation	Voice actor/Disc jockey
Years active	1959–present

Gary Owens (born May 10, 1936) is an American disc jockey and voice actor. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offers deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Owens is equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and is frequently heard in television, radio, and commercials. He is best known, aside from being the announcer on Laugh-In, for providing the voice of the titular superhero on Space Ghost. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998. Likewise, Owens provided the voice of Roger Ramjet on The Roger Ramjet Cartoons. He is currently the primary voice of the over-the-air digital network Antenna TV.

Owens received a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1980, between Walt Disney and Betty White.

He was the voice of Walt Disney's Epcot Center ride, World of Motion, which operated between 1982 and 1996. His television special was "The Roots of Goofy" which aired from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

Owens also co-starred in a number of documentaries about dinosaurs in the 1980s alongside Chicago's Eric Boardman. These documentaries were distributed by the Midwich Entertainment group for the Disney Channel before it went from being a premium pay channel on cable to a standard channel.

Owens was also the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos from 1995–1997, replacing Ernie Anderson.

Owens has provided the voices for:

• A substitute announcer for Bill Nye the Science Guy
• Badly Animated Man in Raw Toonage
• Opening narration of t.v. series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
• The alarm voice and the ominous voice in Wizards of Waverly Place
• Mr. Hammerhead in the Goof Troop episode "Date to Destiny"
• The narrator in the Dinosaurs episode "Nuts to War"
• The announcer in DTV Monster Hits
• The narrator in the Disney's Wonderful World episode "Baseball Fever"
• The announcer in the Disney Sunday Movie episode "Walt Disney World's 15th Anniversary Celebration"
• The newscaster in Return from Witch Mountain
• The announcer in The Love Bug
• The narrator in Pigs is Pigs
• Himself in the Wonderful World of Disney episode "Mickey's 50"
• Himself and the announcer in The Muppets Go Hollywood