Pat Fraley

Fraley belongs to the generation of American voice actors who built the syndicated cartoon boom of the 1980s and then taught everybody who came after them. He is a member of Voice and Speech Trainers of America and has spent decades as a voice-over teacher, which is unusual in a field where most people learn by imitation and nobody writes anything down.

Range is the whole point of him. On the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles he voiced Krang, Casey Jones and Baxter Stockman, three characters who share a show and no vocal territory whatsoever, and Krang alone is a complete comic idea: a brain in a robot belly issuing threats in a nasal whine. He led BraveStarr as its square-jawed space marshal, was the title dinosaur in Denver, the Last Dinosaur, played Wildcat on TaleSpin and Wally on Goof Troop, took three of the G.I. Joe roster, and voiced eight separately credited parts in a single Rainbow Brite feature.

The later career is quieter and often anonymous by design. He is in the crowd of Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Chicken Little and Tangled as additional voices, the invisible layer that makes an animated world sound populated, and he voiced Buzz Lightyear for the Toy Story Treats shorts. When The Boxtrolls needed named parts he got two of them. If you want him on camera talking about the job rather than doing it, he appears as himself in the documentary I Know That Voice.