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Jakers
''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' (or simply ''Jakers'' in Europe) is a computer-animated children's television series. The series was broadcast on PBS Kids in the United States, and on CBBC and CBeebies in the United Kingdom. It was also broadcast in Australia on ABC Kids. The series ran for 3 seasons and 52 episodes total from September 7, 2003 to January 24, 2007, with reruns airing through August 31, 2008. Reruns aired on the Qubo television network from June 30, 2012 (alongside ''Taste Buds'', ''Artzooka!'' and ''Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs'') to March 26, 2017. The show chronicles the boyhood adventures of Piggley Winks, an anthropomorphic pig from Ireland, and how he relates these stories to his grandchildren as a grandfather in the modern day. Many of the stories takes place on the Winks family's farm, Raloo Farm, located in the village of Tara. The word "jakers" was originally a euphemism for "Jesus" in much of Ireland during the 1950s and 1960s, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan () is an American television, film, and voice actress known for her work in cartoons, anime and video games. Some of her prominent roles include Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub of ''Naruto'', Piggley Winks in ''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' and Terry Perry in ''Lab Rats''. She has made guest appearances in several television series such as '' ER'', '' Shameless'', ''Bad Teacher'', ''The Office'' and ''Grey's Anatomy''. Her live action work include appearances in ''Phone Booth'' (2002), ''The Number 23'' (2007), ''Evan Almighty'' (2007), ''500 Days of Summer'' (2009) and '' Transformers: Dark of the Moon'' (2011). She has numerous theater credits including working with writer/director Justin Tanner in his plays ''Oklahomo!'', ''Wife Swappers'', ''Pot Mom'', and ''Zombie Attack!'' Early life and education Flanagan was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father worked for the U.S. military intelligence. In 1969, her family was stationed in Bangkok, Thail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She is best remembered as the official voice of Minnie Mouse from 1986 to 2019, and was notably married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, until his death on May 18, 2009. She is the longest tenured actress to voice the character, having held the role for 33 years. She also provided the voices of several characters in ''The Simpsons''. Early life Russi Taylor was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1944. Career Taylor began her voice-over career in the mid-1970s. Her first voice-over role was the voice of Ted and Georgette's baby on ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. Taylor became the voice of Minnie Mouse in 1986, and continued to voice the character for 33 years until her death in 2019. She also voiced Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Webby Vanderquack in the television series ''DuckTales'' and in other appearances. Taylor provided the voices of numerous characters in the animated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peadar Lamb
Peadar Lamb (1930 – 1 September 2017) was an Irish actor. He was known for his roles in numerous Irish-language stage productions, including playing King Fin Varra in the television series ''Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog,'' and lending his voice to Old Piggley Winks on the children's television series '' Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks''. Early life Lamb grew up in An Cheathrú Rua, Carraroe. His father, Charles Lamb, was a well-known painter. Peadar Lamb trained at the Abbey Theatre and first appeared on stage in 1954. Career Theatre Lamb had a theatrical career lasting over 60 years. Over the course of this time, he played diverse characters and appeared in a number of plays by famous playwrights including Brendan Behan, Dion Boucicault and Seán O'Casey: *Estragon in Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot'' *Dunlavin and Warder Regan in '' The Quare Fellow'' (Behan's first play) *Monsewer in '' The Hostage and An Giall'' *Police informer Harvey Duff in '' The Shaugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Schultz (producer)
Bill Schultz is an animation producer. He was born in New York City and grew up in River Forest, a suburb near Chicago, Illinois, moving to Los Angeles after graduating from the University of Illinois Champaign - Urbana Campus. He has worked on television shows such as '' Jim Henson's Muppet Babies'', '' The Transformers'', and produced others, notably '' The Simpsons and'' '' King of the Hill'' and now the founder and CEO of Home Plate Entertainment. Schultz started Home Plate Entertainment in 2010, after stepping down from his 12-year partnership with Splash Entertainment. Career His first job in LA found him working for Capitol Records, which after 9 months he left to work with an independent film producer, and then to work as a production assistant and production staffer on several low budget live action feature films. He eventually got a job at Columbia Pictures Television, working on primetime TV series such as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and TJ Hooker. In 1986, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Adler
Charles Michael Adler (born October 2, 1956) is an American voice actor and voice director. He is known for his roles as Buster Bunny on ''Tiny Toon Adventures'', Ed and Bev Bighead on ''Rocko's Modern Life'' and Ickis on ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters''. His credits also include '' Avengers Assemble'', '' Brandy & Mr. Whiskers'', '' Cow and Chicken'', '' Earthworm Jim'', '' G.I. Joe: Renegades'', ''I Am Weasel'' and '' SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron''. Early life In the mid-1960s, Adler's family moved to Nanuet, New York and later to Massachusetts. He was given the nickname "Beanie" due to always wearing a Beanie cap. His sister Cheryl Adler is a psychotherapist who wrote the book ''Sober University''. Growing up, Adler was a self-described "TV junkie", and an avid fan of '' Rocky and Bullwinkle'', ''The Three Stooges'' and Irene Ryan's Granny Moses from ''The Beverly Hillbillies''. Career Adler's first professional acting job was in a commercial in 1971. Afterward, he took a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Levin
Geoff Levin (born September 14, 1945) is an American rock musician, film/television composer and songwriter. Performing as part of the Black Mountain Boys with Jerry Garcia in the early years of his career, in 1968 his own group, People!, scored a hit record " I Love You" on Capital Records. Together with Geoffrey Lewis in 1970, he created Celestial Navigations, a storytelling group, that produced 8 albums, several made the ''Billboard'' (New Age) charts. He co-composed and co-produced "The Janitor", an Academy Award-nominated animated short based on a story by Geoffrey Lewis from the album ''Celestial Navigations''. Levin has scored over 40 full-length films and has created music used in many TV shows including ''The Sopranos'', '' Chicago Fire'', ''The Good Wife'', '' Friends'', ''Bloodline'', '' SNL'', ''Game of Thrones'', '' Friday Night Lights'', '' CSI'', and '' Weeds''. He co-wrote the theme song for '' Jakers'', an Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning PBS animated series. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Young (producer)
Michael Emlyn Young (born October 13, 1945) is a Welsh Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning producer. He is the founder of two animation companies in both the UK and the US. His company in 2015 changed its name from Mike Young Productions to Splash Entertainment, which also is a majority owner of Popular AVOD network Kabillion. Biography Young was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Gwent. In the flat above a fish and chip shop owned by the family of actor Victor Spinetti, who would later go on to provide the voice of Mike's characters, Texas Pete. He trained as a television producer, and while working as an advertising copywriter he met his wife Liz Young. After the pair married in the 1970s, Young's stepson Richard Finn (later head of post-production at MYP), was having trouble falling asleep. Young invented stories about a teddy bear and Finn told his school friends the stories, which resulted in the ''SuperTed'' books, co-produced with Young. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splash Entertainment
Splash Entertainment, LLC., formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc., MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC. and Taffy Entertainment, is an American animation studio that produces children's TV series. Splash also controls the streaming service Kabillion. History The studio was originally owned and operated by three animation producers, husband and wife Mike and Liz Young, and Bill Schultz (6 seasons of ''The Simpsons'', ''Garfield and Friends'', '' Bobby's World''). The studio makes both traditional 2D and 3D computer animation. Mike Young Productions became a fully owned subsidiary of MoonScoop Group in 2006, with Mike Young becoming COO US Producer of MoonScoop Group in 2009. MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC.'s parent company, the MoonScoop Group, entered administration in Paris courts in July 2013, but this did not affect the operations of the US company. Ellipsanime (through Jokebox), purchased MoonScoop France's 51% ownership in MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC. MoonScoop Ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nika Futterman
Nika Futterman (born October 25, 1969) is an American voice and television actress. She is known for her voices in various animated series, including Asajj Ventress in '' Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' and Adam Lyon in '' My Gym Partner's a Monkey''. She has voiced many characters for Nickelodeon, including Chum Chum in '' Fanboy & Chum Chum'', Omnia in the Nickelodeon version of '' Winx Club'', and Luna Loud in '' The Loud House''. Personal life Futterman was born in New York City. Career Among her first professional acting roles were single episode appearances on ''Chicago Hope'' and '' Murphy Brown''. Voice acting Futterman has provided her voice in many cartoons, including recurring roles on animated adventure and superhero series such as '' G.I. Joe: Renegades'', '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold'', and '' The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes''. Futterman is the voice of Asajj Ventress in the 2008 animated film '' The Clone Wars'' and its subsequent TV series as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Disney
Melissa Femling (born November 20, 1970), known professionally as Melissa Disney, is an American voice actress and writer. Her best known role to date was as the voice of the titular character in the Nickelodeon animated series '' As Told by Ginger''. Background She is the daughter of writer Carl Femling and occasional actress Louise (née Gallagher), and granddaughter of silent film actress Toy Gallagher. She has often claimed to be a very distant relative of American film producer and businessman Walt Disney. Career Disney is one of a small number of women who do voice-over work for movie trailers. The trailer for '' Gone in 60 Seconds'', which she voiced in 2000, was one of the first by a major film studio to use a female voice. She voiced the title character Ginger Foutley in the animated cartoon '' As Told by Ginger''. She is also known for her role as Elora the Faun in '' Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!'' and Courtney Gears (a parody of both Courtney Love and Britney Spears) in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Adlon
Pamela Fionna Adlon (; ; born July 9, 1966) is an American actress. She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series ''King of the Hill'' (1997–2010), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. She also voiced Baloo in '' Jungle Cubs'' (1996–1998), the title role in the '' Pajama Sam'' video game series (1996–2001), Lucky in '' 101 Dalmatians: The Series'' (1997–1998), Ashley Spinelli in '' Recess'' (1997–2001), Otto Osworth in '' Time Squad'' (2001–2003), and Brigette Murphy in '' Milo Murphy's Law'' (2016–2019), among numerous others. Adlon is also known for her roles in the comedy-drama series '' Californication'' (2007–2014) and '' Louie'' (2010–2015), the latter of which she additionally wrote and produced alongside Louis C.K. Her work on ''Louie'' garnered her four Primetime Emmy Award nominations. From 2016 to 2022, Adlon starred as Sam Fox on the acclaimed FX comedy-drama series '' Better Things'', which she also co-created, wrote, pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taffy Entertainment
Splash Entertainment, LLC., formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc., MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC. and Taffy Entertainment, is an American animation studio that produces children's TV series. Splash also controls the streaming service Kabillion. History The studio was originally owned and operated by three animation producers, husband and wife Mike and Liz Young, and Bill Schultz (6 seasons of ''The Simpsons'', ''Garfield and Friends'', ''Bobby's World''). The studio makes both traditional 2D and 3D computer animation. Mike Young Productions became a fully owned subsidiary of MoonScoop Group in 2006, with Mike Young becoming COO US Producer of MoonScoop Group in 2009. MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC.'s parent company, the MoonScoop Group, entered administration in Paris courts in July 2013, but this did not affect the operations of the US company. Ellipsanime (through Jokebox), purchased MoonScoop France's 51% ownership in MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC. MoonScoop Enter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
