Stephen Walter Stanton is a German-born American actor, voice actor, voice-match artist, and visual effects artist. For Disney, he is the current voice of Sleepy in The 7D and has guest-starred as Gustave Gator in Doc McStuffins and Jade Jaguar in Sofia the First.
He often provides voices for the Disney theme parks, including:
- Disneyland's Mark Twain Riverboat - Captain
- Toy Story Midway Mania! - Stinky Pete
- Disney D23 Expo Carousel of Projects - Pre-show Narrator
- Mystic Manor - Lord Henry Mystic
- Seven Dwarfs Mine Train - Happy
- Club 33 - Audio-animatronic Vulture
- Walt Disney World D23 Destination D: Attraction Rewind - Announcer as "Father" from Carousel of Progress
He also played Chic Anderson in Secretariat.
Stanton has voiced Stinky Pete in various Toy Story projects, Happy in Snow White projects; Paulie, Scurvy Pat, and a Blue Gremlin in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, Obi-Wan Kenobi in Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition, and Governor Tarkin and additional characters in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels.
He also voiced Needleman and Smitty in Monsters at Work, replacing Daniel Gerson.[1]