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Everyone Should Have an “Uncle Willie” (part two)

March 28, 2019 by Rowell Gormon

click here for part one One of the biggest reasons I hit it off so well in the studio with producers and directors is my Imagination. I’ve even had writers create something with one of my voice characters in mind. I sometimes wonder why that sense of imagination isn’t commonplace. And then I wonder where […]

Everybody Should Have an “Uncle Willie” (part one)

March 19, 2019 by Rowell Gormon

The Man of Multiple Names Could Hear My Multiple Voices To his wife Joyce, his co-workers and other friends he was “Bill”. His mom, my grandma, always referred to him as William Thomas (I always wondered who that “William Thomas” guy she kept talking about was). But to me and my younger brother Lee (pictured […]

Back on the Farm Team

May 8, 2012 by Rowell

If there is a downside to doing the voice for an animation project, it’s the seemingly interminable interval before you can actually see the final result. But more often than not…it’s worth the wait. That’s been the experience with these terrific and funny TV spots for Taco John’s, created by Lawrence and Schiller (used by […]

New Dog…Old Trick

May 3, 2012 by Rowell

Animating a moving mouth over live-action animal footage is nothing new. There was a popular series of theatrical shorts in the 30s based on the concept. It’s still fun, though! My thanks to Rod and Nancy Rich at MonkeyBravo for thinking of me when it came time to record the voices (and for including […]

Famous…for What?

February 5, 2012 by Rowell

Sometimes I enjoy and admire Ricky Gervais. Sometmes I wonder how he got into the room…and how soon he’ll find the way back out. But what he wrote in the Huffington Post has put him back on the “plus” column for me just now. It’s about the weird modern goal of being “Famous”. …nothing else…just “Famous”, […]

Bossing People Around (In The Nicest Possible Way)

October 17, 2011 by Rowell

I’ve done it before, but never to this extent, or in this particular way. ‘Ready for your close-up? I’m Mr. DeMille. (If you’re too young to get the reference, watch “Sunset Boulevard”) This weekend I worked with a group of very talented actors on the first in a series of web-training videos for Firehorse Films…as […]

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