Terry Klassen
Terry Klassen is an actor.
Radio came first, and it shows. Klassen worked CITI-FM in Winnipeg, Q107 in Toronto, CFAC in Calgary, CFRY in Portage la Prairie and part-time shifts at CFOX and CFMI before animation, which is years of learning to do everything with a voice, a microphone and no face. That is close to a perfect apprenticeship for the Vancouver dubbing and animation industry he ended up running large parts of.
His biggest body of work is directorial rather than performed. He was the voice director on every episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and on the Equestria Girls films, and he has directed voice on Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Test, Mega Babies, a long run of Barbie features and the English dub of Cardcaptors. Voice direction is invisible work by design: it is the reason a cast of thirty who never met sounds like it is standing in one room, and the reason a dub tracks a mouth that was drawn for another language.
As a performer he is a utility man of the best sort, which the credits here show in bulk. Sylvester in Baby Looney Tunes, Abuelito in the deranged luchador comedy Mucha Lucha, Doctor Von Reichter in Cybersix, Cut Man and Ice Man in Mega Man, Spittor in Extreme Dinosaurs, Impossible Man in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, Eddy's Brother in Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, Gramps in StarBeam, Maurice in The Wacky World of Tex Avery, and a standing army of butlers, guards, swordsmen and hypnotists across the Barbie films. Friendship Is Magic itself, the show he shaped most, is not among the credits listed here.
Movies (13)
- Barbie as Rapunzel (2002)
- Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
- Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)
- Barbie: A Fairy Secret (2011)
- Barbie Mariposa (2008)
- Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008)
- Casper's Haunted Christmas (2000)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
- Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show (2009)
- My Little Pony: Rainbow Roadtrip (2019)
- Snow White (1995)
- My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie (2005)
TV (17)
- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- The Wacky World of Tex Avery (1997)
- Baby Looney Tunes (2002)
- ¡Mucha Lucha! (2002)
- The Cramp Twins (2003)
- Krypto the Superdog (2005)
- Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999)
- Transformers: Armada (2003)
- Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (2006)
- Extreme Dinosaurs (1997)
- Gadget & the Gadgetinis (2002)
- Class of the Titans (2006)
- Pocket Dragon Adventures (1998)
- Being Ian (2005)
- Cybersix (1999)
- StarBeam (2020)
- Mega Man (1994)
Where to start with Terry Klassen
Take Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show first if you want the single best thing he is in. Eddy's Brother is the payoff to a decade of a cartoon, and the part needs a voice that can turn from a joke into something genuinely nasty in one line.
For the everyday craft, Baby Looney Tunes has him carrying Sylvester, which means matching an established voice without impersonating it, and Cybersix gives him a proper cackling villain in a series with far more style than its budget. ¡Mucha Lucha! is the most fun on the list, and Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes hands him Impossible Man, the sort of motormouth part that separates voice actors from actors doing voices.
Mega Man and Barbie as Rapunzel are the two ends of his commercial work, one cheap and beloved, the other polished and enormous, and both are useful if you want to hear how much a jobbing voice cast can lift written-to-order material.