John Stocker has been a recognized force in the acting industry for over 5 decades. He began his career as an on-camera performer, working with the likes of John Candy, Dan Ackroyd, Rick Moranis, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Catherine O’Hara and William Shatner, before settling solely, but comfortably, into the off-camera world, where he has voiced many thousands of commercials and hundreds of animated characters. Many of you will recognize some of his classic roles – ‘Beastly’ in Care Bears, ‘LongArm’ in COPS, ‘Toad’ in The Super Mario Brothers Supershow, the ‘Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man’ in The Real Ghostbusters, ‘Newton Gimmick’ in Teddy Ruxpin, ‘Graydon Creed Jr.’ and ‘Leech’ in X-Men, ‘Basil’ in Babar, ‘Bugsy’ in Dog City, ‘Ultron’ in The Avengers and ‘Mr. Owl’ in Franklin amongst countless others. In the Star Wars universe, John voiced several villains on the Nelvana television show Star Wars Droids, including Ko Zatec-Cha, Sollag Den, Greej and Vlix, the latter character having the unique distinction of becoming the rarest Star Wars action figure ever produced! He was also a vocal regular in the animated Ewoks series, as Widdle Warrick aka Willy, plus such episodic roles as Mooth, Hoom, and the Dulok scout.
Still active, he recently wrapped a recurring role as ’Leo’ in Go Dog Go and is a series regular, ‘Bill Belisle’, in the now released Red Ketchup, a project from Sphere Animation. Look out for Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue in which John voices Rasputin the rat. Over the years, John diversified his career to include voice casting, voice coaching (both commercial & animation), demo production, and the discipline that keeps him busiest, voice directing. He’s been at the helm of dozens of productions, including ‘Totally Spies’, ‘Caillou’, ‘Fugget About It’, ‘Redakai’, ‘Mike the Knight’, ‘Martin Mystery’, ‘Beyblade’, ‘Medabots’, ‘Ella the Elephant’, ‘The Magic Hockey Skates’, ‘Rob the Robot’ . ‘Shutterbugs’ and of course, the one that started his voice directing career, the original English language dub of ‘Sailor Moon’ in which he also voiced Grandpa Hino.
