Paul Metcalfe is the real name of which Gerry Anderson puppet character?
"conventions. These reels had the visual design and characters looking very much as they had in the original show, although the vehicle designs had been somewhat modernised. Several years after the initial tests the project evolved into the remake ""Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet,"" by which time the entire appearance had been significantly updated. Anderson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2001. Along with his then business partner John Needham, Anderson created another new series entitled ""Firestorm"", financed by Japanese investors and featured anime style animation. Other planned shows with other Japanese backers, including"
"that his briefcase with $1,000 in cash and valuables inside had been stolen."" The complaint was later dropped. Lynde became sober and drug-free in early 1980. Paul Lynde Paul Edward Lynde (; June 13, 1926January 11, 1982) was an American comedian, voice artist, game show panelist and actor. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in-the-closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on ""Bewitched"" and the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in ""Bye Bye Birdie"". He was also the regular ""center square"" panelist on the game"
"lengths. It was Anderson's first work with puppets, and the start of his long and successful collaborations with puppeteer Christine Glanville, special effects technician Derek Meddings and composer/arranger Barry Gray. It was Anderson's desire to move into live-action television. ""The Adventures of Twizzle"" was followed by another low-budget puppet series with Leigh, ""Torchy the Battery Boy"" (1958–1959). Although the APF puppet productions made the Andersons world-famous, Gerry Anderson was always unhappy about working with puppets. He used them primarily to get attention from and a good reputation with TV networks, hoping to have them serve as a stepping stone to"
"Paul Lynde Paul Edward Lynde (; June 13, 1926January 11, 1982) was an American comedian, voice artist, game show panelist and actor. A character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often poked fun at his barely in-the-closet homosexuality, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on ""Bewitched"" and the befuddled father Harry MacAfee in ""Bye Bye Birdie"". He was also the regular ""center square"" panelist on the game show ""Hollywood Squares"" from 1968 to 1981, and he voiced four Hanna-Barbera productions: he was Templeton the gluttonous rat in ""Charlotte's Web"", Mildew Wolf from ""It's"
"Geoff Peterson Geoff Peterson was an animatronic human skeleton that served as the sidekick on the late-night talk show ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"". He was voiced and operated by Josh Robert Thompson and first appeared on ""The Late Late Show"" on April 5, 2010. Often referred to as a ""robot skeleton"", Peterson is a radio-controlled animatronic robot puppet designed and built by Grant Imahara of ""MythBusters"". He has glowing blue eyes, a metal mohawk (which is sometimes covered by a Santa Claus hat in December) and wears an oversized suit with his name scrawled on a contestant's"
"something funny, you turn around and look at him, and he [Peterson] says something funnier!"" Notes Geoff Peterson Geoff Peterson was an animatronic human skeleton that served as the sidekick on the late-night talk show ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"". He was voiced and operated by Josh Robert Thompson and first appeared on ""The Late Late Show"" on April 5, 2010. Often referred to as a ""robot skeleton"", Peterson is a radio-controlled animatronic robot puppet designed and built by Grant Imahara of ""MythBusters"". He has glowing blue eyes, a metal mohawk (which is sometimes covered by a Santa"
"Doritos, Pepsi, McDonalds, Volvo and Kelloggs. David Berni David Berni is a Canadian actor, voice actor and writer. David Berni (born December 6, 1970) is an actor and writer who currently voices the characters Brent Mclean and Hector on the new animated television series, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs the Series and Dracula on Hotel Transylvania the Series. He also voices Gawayne on the new animated series Mysticons. Recently, David appeared as Mr. Anderson, Jared's father on the new television series, Make It Pop. David has also been nominated for 3 Canadian Screen Awards (Gemini Awards) in the Best"
"David Berni David Berni is a Canadian actor, voice actor and writer. David Berni (born December 6, 1970) is an actor and writer who currently voices the characters Brent Mclean and Hector on the new animated television series, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs the Series and Dracula on Hotel Transylvania the Series. He also voices Gawayne on the new animated series Mysticons. Recently, David appeared as Mr. Anderson, Jared's father on the new television series, Make It Pop. David has also been nominated for 3 Canadian Screen Awards (Gemini Awards) in the Best Performance category for his work on"
"other beauty treatments, raising money for BBC Children In Need. Christopher supports a large number of charities in the U.K. In 2009, he also played in a team against Morecambe Football Club for a friendly game, he is currently training as a mixed martial artist at the Kaobon gym in Liverpool whose fighters include Ultimate Fighting Championship alumni Terry Etim, Paul Kelly, Paul Taylor, Paul Sass and Mark Scanlon. Chris operates a number of successful business in the social housing and private healthcare sectors. Chris Perry-Metcalf Christopher ""Chris"" Perry-Metcalf (born 11 January 1989) is a former child actor who is"
"Gerry Anderson Gerry Anderson (born Gerald Alexander Abrahams; 14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist. He remains famous for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with ""Supermarionation"" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts). Anderson's first television production was the 1957 Roberta Leigh children's series ""The Adventures of Twizzle"". ""Supercar"" (1961–62) and ""Fireball XL5"" (1962) followed later, both series breaking into the US television market in the early 1960s. In the mid-1960s Anderson produced his most successful series, ""Thunderbirds"". Other television productions of the 1960s"
"Randy Feltface Randy Feltface, commonly referred to as merely Randy, or on occasion Randy the Purple Puppet, is an Australian puppet comedian voiced and operated by Heath McIvor. Randy is a permanent fixture on the international stand-up circuit, and makes regular guest appearances on Australian television. He also performs as one half of the musical comedy duo ""Sammy J and Randy"", who made their television sitcom debut in 2015 with ""Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane"" on ABC in Australia, for which Randy is credited as co-writer and lead actor. Randy's first acting gig was in a presentation on"
"Garry Chalk Garry Glen Chalk (born February 17, 1952) is a British-born Canadian actor and voice actor. He has provided the voices for Optimus Primal of ""Beast Wars: Transformers"" and ""Beast Machines"", as well the Optimus Prime in the anime English dubs of ""Transformers: Armada"", ""Transformers Energon"", and ""Transformers: Cybertron"", and also was the third American voice of Dr. Robotnik for ""Sonic Underground"". He has lent his voice to over 30 animated television series and has been in films such as ""The Fly II"", ""Godzilla"" and ""Freddy vs. Jason"". He played the recurring role of Col. Chekov on ""Stargate SG-1""."
"she created included Masterspy and his sidekick Zarin (""Supercar""), Venus (""Fireball XL5""), Titan, Agent X20 and Atlanta Shore (""Stingray"") Captain Black and the Angels (excluding Destiny) in Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons. Glanville worked in puppetry and lived in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, until her death on 1 March 1999 at the age of 74. Christine Glanville Christine Glanville (28 October 1924 – 1 March 1999) was an English puppeteer who spent much of her professional life contributing to television series produced by Gerry Anderson. She was born Nancy Christine Fletcher in Halifax, West Yorkshire but moved with her parents to"
"Al Lettieri Alfredo ""Al"" Lettieri (February 24, 1928 – October 18, 1975) was an American actor and screenwriter. During his career he acted with some of Hollywood's biggest screen stars, including Steve McQueen in ""The Getaway"", Charles Bronson in ""Mr. Majestyk"", John Wayne in ""McQ"", Richard Harris in ""The Deadly Trackers"", Michael Caine and Mickey Rooney in ""Pulp"", and Marlon Brando and Al Pacino in ""The Godfather"". In most of those roles he was cast as a villain and was sometimes credited as Anthony Lettieri. Lettieri had a role in the 1958 ""Perry Mason"" episode ""The Case of the Fugitive"
"Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows including numerous recurring roles as varying characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show""; recurring roles as Corporal Henshaw on ""The Phil Silvers Show""; Sergeant Hacker on ""Gomer Pyle, USMC""; Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on ""The Brady Bunch""; and Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker’s Place"". Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York City by his paternal grandparents, Frank and Helen (née Campbell)"
"Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor, comedian, singer, and radio personality. After beginning his over 60-year career performing in radio, he became known for his work in animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil and many of the other characters from the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" theatrical cartoons during the golden age of American animation. He voiced all of"
"Eddie Paul Eddie Paul (born May 30, 1948 in San Francisco, California) is an American now residing in El Segundo, CA. He holds multiple U.S. patents and was owner of E.P. Industries, Inc. E.P. Industries included Prototech Machine Engineering, a CNC machine shop, (no longer in business). He is known for the creation of customised vehicles for use in Hollywood feature films. Eddie Paul is an auto body expert whose work may be seen in such movies as ""Grease"", ""Taxi"", ""XXX"" and ""Gone in 60 Seconds"". He created custom vehicles which toured as Pixar characters Lightning McQueen, Mater and Sally"
"Dallas McKennon Dallas Raymond McKennon (July 19, 1919 – July 14, 2009), sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor and voice actor, in a career lasting over 50 years. Born near La Grande, Oregon, McKennon's best-known voice roles were that of Gumby for Art Clokey, Archie Andrews in several different ""Archie"" series for Filmation, and the primary voice of Buzz Buzzard in the ""Woody Woodpecker"" cartoons. In the early 1950s, McKennon created and hosted his own daily kids TV wraparound show, ""Space Funnies""/""Capt. Jet"", which was seen weekday mornings on KNXT (KCBS) TV Ch. 2 in Hollywood, California."
"Gull, for the PlayStation VR. In 2016, Taylor publicly came out as a trans woman. Maddie Taylor Maddie Taylor (born as Matthew William Taylor; December 31, 1966 in Flint, Michigan) is an American voice actress, story artist and comedian, known for voicing Verminious Snaptrap in ""T.U.F.F. Puppy"" and Sparky in ""The Fairly OddParents"". While starting as a storyboard artist at Sony Pictures Animation, Taylor lent her voice to Deni, the crazed duck, and Buddy, the blue porcupine, in the studio's first full feature ""Open Season"", as well as voicing Elliot in the video game adaptation, replacing Ashton Kutcher. In the"
"Orville the Duck Orville the Duck was the most famous puppet often used by the ventriloquist Keith Harris (1947–2015) and was named after Orville Wright (one of the Wright Brothers). Orville is a green duckling who wears nothing but a nappy with a large safety pin on the front. He speaks with a falsetto voice. Orville appeared on BBC television from 1982 to 1990 on ""The Keith Harris Show"", which featured assorted puppets such as Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey. At the peak of their popularity in December 1982, Harris and Orville released the single ""Orville's Song"", reaching"
"pin-up Bettie Page was interred in the grave beside Melvin. Allan Melvin Allan John Melvin (February 18, 1923 – January 17, 2008) was an American character actor who appeared in several television shows including numerous recurring roles as varying characters on ""The Andy Griffith Show""; recurring roles as Corporal Henshaw on ""The Phil Silvers Show""; Sergeant Hacker on ""Gomer Pyle, USMC""; Alice’s boyfriend Sam the Butcher on ""The Brady Bunch""; and Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on ""All in the Family"" and ""Archie Bunker’s Place"". Born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Richard and Marie Melvin and raised in New York"
"work at Denham Studios, lettering credit titles. It was there that he met effects designer Les Bowie and joined his matte painting department. During the 1950s, Meddings' work with Bowie included the creation of Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films and a ""string and cardboard"" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest TV puppet series. In 1953, he married Anne S. Dodge (born 1935). In 1972, Meddings married Alexe Anne Inglis (born 18 May 1954). Meddings' first work with Anderson was as an uncredited art assistant on Anderson's second puppet series, ""Torchy the Battery Boy"", produced"
"Anthony radio program which resulted in the duo's firing and a $357,000 fine against Infinity Broadcasting. Mecurio currently hosts Paul Mecurio: 2 Chairs and a Mic, on Adam Carolla digital network. Some of his recent guests include Sir Paul McCartney, wrestler and actor Stone Cold Steve Austin, Jay Leno, and Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman, the hosts of Discovery Channel's ""MythBusters"". Paul Mecurio Paul Mecurio (born Paul Mercurio) is a Rhode Island-born comedian featured on ""Comedy Central Presents"". A lawyer by education (graduated from Providence College and Georgetown University Law Center), Mecurio took up stand-up comedy after working as an"
"Anthony Meindl Anthony Paul Meindl (born January 14, 1968) is an American screenwriter, stage and film actor, writer and founder and artistic director of the MetaTheatre Company and Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop (otherwise known as AMAW) in Los Angeles. The workshop has since expanded to locations in Atlanta, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York City, Sydney, Toronto and Vancouver. In the 1990s, Meindl played a character who was a genie named ""Hard Hat Harry"" in a number of video cassettes and DVDs aimed at introducing children to trucks, cars, construction vehicles, and others (usually using the name ""Anthony Paul""). He"
"Edwin Jarvis Edwin Jarvis is a supporting character in the Marvel Comics titles ""Iron Man"", ""The Avengers"" and ""Spider-Man"". He is the loyal household butler of the Stark family. Since the 1990s, the character has appeared heavily in media adaptations of ""Iron Man"" and ""Avengers"" stories, and is commonly reimagined as J.A.R.V.I.S., an artificial intelligence that assists the superhero Iron Man. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, J.A.R.V.I.S. is voiced by Paul Bettany in the live-action ""Iron Man"" and the first two ""Avengers"" films while Edwin Jarvis was portrayed by James D'Arcy in the ABC television series ""Agent Carter"". In 2012,"
"animation software. Models of characters are puppets. Gerry Anderson created a series of shows using puppets living in a universe of models and miniature sets, notably ""Thunderbirds"". ""ALF"" depicted an alien living in a family, while ""Farscape"" included two puppets as regular characters. In ""Stargate SG-1"", the Asgard characters are puppets in scenes where they are sitting, standing, or lying down. In ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"", the characters of Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, two of the show's main (and most iconic) characters, are puppets constructed from random household items. As animation is completely free of the constraints of"
"of live actors for long-distance shots. Following ""The Secret Service"", Anderson did not work with puppets again until the 1980s, when he produced ""Terrahawks"" in ""Supermacromation"". The series follows the adventures of Father Stanley Unwin, a character both voiced by and resembling the real-life comedian of the same name. Outwardly the parish priest of a rural English village, Unwin is in fact a secret agent for BISHOP, a covert branch of British Intelligence that counters criminal and terrorist threats from abroad. Aided by junior operative Matthew Harding, the Father answers to his London-based superior, ""The Bishop"". Whenever they must gather"
"21-year-old adult dwarf actor named Master Gabriel (1882–1929), born Gabriel Weigel. Photos of Master Gabriel in the role show him very convincing as a child. Gabriel appeared in another children's-oriented play in 1908 ""Little Nemo"" and a return engagement as Buster Brown in 1913. It also featured famous animal actor George Ali as Tige. A Buster Brown radio series began in 1943 with Smilin' Ed McConnell on the West Coast NBC Radio Network. It included such characters as Froggy the Gremlin (""Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"") and Midnight the Cat (""What do you say to the kids, Midnight?"" ""Nice.""). McConnell"
"""it could have been funnier and the characters could have been fleshed out more."" Between the three main segments in seasons one and two are brief mini-segments, which usually feature only Dexter and Dee Dee. Other characters may star in them, notably ""The Puppet Pals"", two live-action puppets named Puppet Pal Mitch (Rob Paulsen) and Puppet Pal Clem (Tom Kenny). Genndy Tartakovsky, the creator of ""Dexter's Laboratory"", was born in Moscow, where his father, a dentist, served in the Soviet government. Although relatively wealthy and well-connected, his family feared racial persecution due to their Jewish heritage and moved to the"
"he cuts through a thick rope with a pine-scented air freshener). The official MasterCard website for the commercial refers to it as ""the Return of MacGyver"". Lee David Zlotoff, the creator of ""MacGyver"", announced on May 3, 2008, that a ""MacGyver"" film was in production. Anderson has expressed interest in revisiting his role; however, there is no word on who will be playing the role of ""MacGyver"" in the film. Anderson cameoed as MacGyver in what seemed to be a ""Saturday Night Live"" advertisement parody featuring the show's recurring character MacGruber (portrayed by Will Forte), but was rather a real"
"series, which had only used live-action shots for situations such as the operation of machines (for which a brief shot of a living hand would often be inserted). New puppets created for ""The Secret Service"" were limited to the characters of Father Unwin (which sculptor Mary Turner based on the likeness of Stanley Unwin), his ageing housekeeper Mrs Appleby (which Christine Glanville based on the appearance of her mother) and The Bishop. Other characters were portrayed by ""revamp puppets"" that appeared in the earlier Anderson series ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"" and ""Joe 90"". For example, the Harding puppet had"
"Angeles, California, welcome to the ""Late Late Show"", I am your host, TV's Craig Ferguson"") and the proclamation that ""It's a great day for America, everybody!"". From 2010 the monologue also included banter with Geoff Peterson, his ""robot skeleton sidekick"", voiced and controlled by Josh Robert Thompson. This animatronic was constructed by the Mythbusters' Grant Imahara but went through many revisions, the most important was the regular live control and voicing by Thompson. This changed the dynamic of the show as Ferguson had a recurring 'sidekick' to banter with. After another commercial break, the banter continued with Ferguson sitting behind"
"Geoffrey Palmer (actor) Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, (born 4 June 1927) is an English actor known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"" (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in ""Butterflies"" (1978–83) and Lionel Hardcastle in ""As Time Goes By"" (1992–2005). His film appearances include ""A Fish Called Wanda"" (1988), ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""Mrs. Brown"" (1997), and ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" (1997). Palmer's early television appearances included a variety of roles in Granada Television's ""The Army Game"", two episodes of ""The Baron"" and as a property agent in ""Cathy Come Home""."