Tony Jay

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Biography

Tony Jay was an acclaimed British-American actor, voice artist, and singer. He was widely celebrated for his remarkably deep, distinctive baritone voice. His deep register made him a definitive talent for portraying sophisticated, authoritative, and sinister villains across television, film, and video games. He is best known as the voice of Claude Frollo in Walt Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the virus Megabyte in the award-winning CGI animated series ReBoot. A former member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company, Jay built a decades-long legacy as one of the most memorable voice actors in modern entertainment history.

Known For

Beauty and the Beast

Monsieur D'Arque (voice)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Frollo (voice)

Treasure Planet

Narrator (voice)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Twin Peaks

Dougie Milford

Twins

Werner

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Third Minister Campio

Teen Titans

Narrator (voice)

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2007	Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2006	Me, Eloise TV	(voice)
2006	Where My Dogs At? TV	Self
2005	Once Upon a Halloween MOVIE	Judge Claude Frollo (voice) (archive sound)
2004	H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2004	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends TV	Spiderus Reeves
2003	Teen Titans TV	Narrator (voice)
2003	Rugrats Go Wild MOVIE	Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
2003	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids MOVIE	Spiderus Reeves (voice)
2003	The Jungle Book 2 MOVIE	Shere Khan (voice)
2002	Treasure Planet MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2002	Ocean Men, Extreme Dive MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2002	Adventures in Odyssey: The Caves of Qumran MOVIE	Fred J. Faustus (voice)
2001	ReBoot - My Two Bobs MOVIE	Megabyte (voice)
2001	Race to Space MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2001	The Legend of Tarzan TV	Poacher (voice)
2001	Recess: School's Out MOVIE	Dr. Rosenthal (voice)
2001	Lloyd in Space TV	Dr. Werner Von Brain (voice)
2001	Disney's House of Mouse TV	Magic Mirror (voice)
2001	Disney's House of Mouse TV	Shere Khan (voice)
2001	Disney's House of Mouse TV	Magic Mirror / Shere Khan (voice)
2001	Disney's House of Mouse TV	Ostrich (voice)
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command TV	Dr. Animus (voice)
2000	Civil War Combat TV	Narrator
1999	Xyber 9: New Dawn TV	Machestro (voice)
1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me MOVIE	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1999	Providence TV	Self
1998	The Rugrats Movie MOVIE	Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
1998	Invasion America MOVIE	The Dragit (Voice)
1998	Invasion America TV	Dragit (voice)
1998	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island MOVIE	Toplofty (voice)
1998	Dragon Friend MOVIE	The Dragon (voice)
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters TV	Self
1997	Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie MOVIE	Jarlesburg (voice) (archive footage)
1997	Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off MOVIE	Wraith (voice)
1996	Jungle Cubs (Volume 1): Born to be Wild MOVIE	(Voice)
1996	Hey Arnold! TV	Dr. Lipman (voice)
1996	Hey Arnold! TV	Rex Smythe-Higgins (voice)
1996	Hey Arnold! TV	Booming Voice (voice)
1996	Bruno the Kid TV	Jarlesburg (voice)
1996	Superman: The Last Son of Krypton MOVIE	Sul-Van (voice)
1996	Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series TV	Wraith (voice)
1996	Superman: The Animated Series TV	Sul-Van (voice)
1996	Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible MOVIE	Self
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame MOVIE	Frollo (voice)
1996	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 MOVIE	Reginald (voice)
1995	The Savage Dragon TV	Overlord (voice)
1994	Spider-Man TV	Baron Mordo (voice)
1994	Gargoyles TV	Anubis (voice)
1994	Fantastic Four TV	Galactus/Terrax (voice)
1994	Fantastic Four TV	Galactus (voice)
1994	Skeleton Warriors TV	Narrator (voice)
1994	Beethoven TV	Watson (voice)
1994	ReBoot TV	Megabyte (voice)
1994	The Tick TV	Chairface Chippendale (voice)
1994	Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights MOVIE	Additional Voices (voice)
1994	Thumbelina MOVIE	Cow (voice)
1994	Duckman TV	Teacher (voice)
1994	Aladdin TV	Self
1993	Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert MOVIE	Wilfred Plimsoll
1993	Animaniacs TV	Narrator (voice)
1993	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman TV	Nigel St. John
1993	2 Stupid Dogs TV	Double-Q (voice)
1993	Mighty Max TV	Virgil (voice)
1993	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. TV	Judge Silot Gatt
1992	Tom and Jerry: The Movie MOVIE	Lickboot (voice)
1992	Picket Fences TV	Chief Rabbi
1992	Jonah MOVIE	God (voice)
1991	Beauty and the Beast MOVIE	Monsieur D'Arque (voice)
1991	Eerie, Indiana TV	Sir Boris von Orloff
1991	Darkwing Duck TV	Grim Reaper (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	Dr. Lipschitz (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	General (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	Scientist #2 (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	Dream Santa / Barney (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	Manager / Man with Car / Max (voice)
1991	Rugrats TV	Narrator (voice)
1991	Sisters TV	Self
1991	Beasties MOVIE	Frankie
1991	Absolute Strangers MOVIE	Weisfeld
1990	Captain Planet and the Planeteers TV	Yeti (voice)
1990	Peter Pan & the Pirates TV	Self
1990	TaleSpin TV	Shere Khan (voice)
1990	Tom & Jerry Kids Show TV	Narrator (voice)
1990	Tom & Jerry Kids Show TV	King (voice)
1990	Talespin: Plunder & Lightning MOVIE	Shere Khan (voice)
1990	Twin Peaks TV	Dougie Milford
1990	The Easter Story MOVIE	Caiaphas (voice)
1990	Rainbow Drive MOVIE	Max Hollister
1989	Christine Cromwell TV	Self
1989	The New Lassie TV	Self
1988	Twins MOVIE	Werner
1988	My Stepmother Is an Alien MOVIE	Council Chief
1988	Murphy Brown TV	Dr. Wade Benoit
1987	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV	Dregg (voice)
1987	Little Dorrit MOVIE	Doctor
1987	Beverly Hills Buntz TV	Sheik Mohammed
1987	Star Trek: The Next Generation TV	Third Minister Campio
1987	Beauty and the Beast TV	Paracelsus
1986	Matlock TV	John Bosley Hackett
1985	The Golden Girls TV	Laszlo
1985	Mr. Belvedere TV	Self
1985	Dempsey and Makepeace TV	Abe Moser
1984	Who's the Boss? TV	Self
1984	Hunter TV	Father Michaels
1984	Night Court TV	Joseph Schiavelli
1982	Newhart TV	Reginald Wooster
1982	The Agatha Christie Hour TV	Count Streplitch
1981	Time Bandits MOVIE	Supreme Being (voice)
1981	Timon of Athens MOVIE	Merchant
1980	Escape TV	Colonel Jalbout
1978	The Greek Tycoon MOVIE	Doctor
1977	The Professionals TV	Foreign Observer
1977	My Way II MOVIE	Self
1976	The XYY Man TV	Jacob Mahler
1975	Love and Death MOVIE	Vladimir Maximovitch
1975	Children of Rage MOVIE	Self
1975	The Hanged Man TV	Laszlo
1975	The Sweeney TV	Lambourne
1974	Affairs of the Heart TV	Sir Luke Strett
1974	Fall of Eagles TV	Tsar Alexander III
1972	Leatherlip MOVIE	Self
1972	Six Days of Justice TV	Edwin Lovatt
1972	The Winners MOVIE	Natie Kaplan
1971	Justice TV	Mr. Papalonios
1970	Taxi! MOVIE	Red Kowalski
1970	Lied in my Hart MOVIE	Rudi
1969	Petticoat Safari MOVIE	Self
1965	The Secret Squirrel Show TV	Self

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