Mike Road
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Mike Road | |
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Los Angeles, California , U.S. | |
Occupation(s) | Actor and director |
Years active | 1939–1988 |
Children | 2 |
Mike Road (born Milton Brustin;[1] March 18, 1918 – April 14, 2013) was an American voice actor and Warner Bros. television series contract player whose television career dates back to the 1950s and in films to the 1940s.
Biography
Road was born in Malden in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He got his start as an actor in school plays while in Malden High School, which led to him joining a theatre troupe in Boston. His Broadway debut came in the late 1930s in the short-lived play Doodle Dandy of the U.S.A. He supported himself by doing odd jobs such as usher, waiter, truck driver, delivery man and sign painter.[1]
Road had a role in the play The Moonvine. His film career had also begun by this time. Between 1943 and 1946, he appeared in
In the late 1950s, his television career also took off. He portrayed Marshal Tom Sellers on the 1958–59 NBC
In his two appearances on the western series Colt .45, Road played Jesse James in "Alias Mr. Howard". He was also cast as a bandit-turned-storekeeper in the segment "Arizona Anderson", which aired on February 14, 1960.
As a voice actor, Road is best known as
He returned to directing plays on the stage in the 1970s. In 1973, Road won the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award for Come Slowly Eden.[3] He directed Toni Gerry in the drama one-woman play Hanna Speaks in 1988.[2]
Mike Road died on April 14, 2013, at the age of 95 in Los Angeles.[4]
Voiceover roles
- Jonny Quest - Roger T. 'Race' Bannon / additional voices (1964–1965)
- The Flintstones - episode - "Fred Meets Hercurock" - Go-Go Ravine / Trainer / Guy #2 / Chauffeur (1965)
- Space Ghost and Dino Boy- Ugh (1966)
- Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967)
- The Herculoids - Zandor / Zok / Igoo / Tundro / additional voices (1967)
- The Funky Phantom (1971–1972)
- The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie - episode - "Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection" - Ralph Hightower / R.C. Man (1972)
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies - additional voices (1972)
- Sealab 2020 - Matthew Mills (1972)
- Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space (1972)
- Valley of the Dinosaurs - John Butler (1974)
- Partridge Family 2200 AD (1974)
- The Last of the Mohicans - TV special - Hawkeye (1975)
- Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels - additional voices (1977–1980)
- The New Fantastic Four - Mister Fantastic / Reed Richards (1978)
- Godzilla - additional voices (1978–1979)
- Space Stars - Zandor, Tundro, Zok, Igoo, additional voices (1981)
Television
- Buckskin - 34 episodes - Marshal Tom Sellers / Sheriff Tom Sellers (1958–1959)
- Wagon Train - episode - "The Martha Barham Story" - Capt. Wade Forrest (1959)
- Gunsmoke - episodes - "Friends Pay-Off" & "Big Man, Big Target" - Ab Butler & Joe Merchant (1960–1964)
- Maverick - episode - "Red Dog" - Buckskin Charlie King (1961)
- Cheyenne - episode - "The Quick and the Deadly" - Jud Ainley (1962)
- Maverick - episodes - "Dade City Dodge" & "The Troubled Heir" - Pearly Gates (1962)
- Bewitched - episodes - "My Friend Ben" & "Samantha for the Defense" - Chuck Hawkins (1966)
- I Dream of Jeannie - episode - "How Do You Beat Superman?" - Tony Millionaire (1966)
- The Wild Wild West -episode - "The Night of the Tottering Tontine" - Martin Dexter (1967)
- The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - additional voices (1968)
- McMillan & Wife - episode - "The Easy Sunday Murder Case" - Announcer at Dog Show (1971)
- Alias Smith and Jones - episodes - "A Fistful of Diamonds" & "Shootout at Diablo Station" - Sheriff Lom Trevors (1971)
- O'Hara, U.S. Treasury - - Russ Novack (1971)
- The Magical World of Disney- episodes - "Justin Morgan Had a Horse: Parts 1 & 2" - Dans Forth (1972)
- Police Woman - episode - "Father to the Man" - Rudy (1976)
References
- ^ a b The Boston Advertiser, June 29, 1958
- ^ a b "Memory Play: One-Woman Drama Tells of Love, the Holocaust and Survival in Biographical 'Hanna Speaks'". Los Angeles Times. May 6, 1988. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
- ^ "1969 – 1979 Awards :: LA Drama Critics Circle".
- ^ Obituary: Our Childhood
External links
- Mike Road at the Internet Broadway Database
- Mike Road at IMDb