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Jakers
''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'', or ''Jakers'' in Europe, is an animated children's television series created and developed by Mike Young, Liz Young, Sindy McKay-Swerdlove and John Over based on an original idea by Denise Fitzpatrick and produced by Entara in association with Mike Young Productions with the animation provided by Crest Communications. 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 three seasons and 52 episodes total from September 7, 2003, to January 23, 2007, with reruns airing through August 31, 2008. Reruns aired on the Qubo television network from June 30, 2012 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 fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maile Flanagan
Maile Flanagan (; born May 19, 1965) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known as the voice of Naruto Uzumaki in the English dub of the ''Naruto'' franchise. Other prominent roles include voicing Piggley Winks in '' Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' (for which she received two nominations for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and won once), and portraying Terry Perry in '' Lab Rats''. Flanagan's live-action film 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 also made guest appearances in several television series such as '' ER'', '' Shameless'', '' Bad Teacher'', ''The Office'' and ''Grey's Anatomy''. She appeared on the ABC sitcom '' Not Dead Yet'' in a recurring capacity. As of 2023, she is the voice of Matthew "Matt" Hornsby on the Adult Swim animated sitcom '' Royal Crac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peadar Lamb
Peadar Lamb (24 December 1929 – 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 voicing Grandpa 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 Shaughr ... [...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 (The Zombies song)#People!, I Love You" on Capitol Records. Together with Geoffrey Lewis (actor), Geoffrey Lewis in 1970, he created Celestial Navigations, a storytelling group, that produced 8 albums, several made the ''Billboard (magazine), 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 (actor), 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 (TV series), Chicago Fire'', ''The Good Wife'', ''Friends'', ''Bloodline (TV series), Bloodline'', ''Saturday Night Live, SNL'', ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She was best remembered for voicing the character of Minnie Mouse in English from 1986 to 2019, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, until his death on May 18, 2009. She was the longest-tenured voice 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 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. Russi Taylor was 75 years old. She also voiced Huey, Dewey, and Louie and Webby Vanderquack in the television series ''DuckTales'' and in other appearances. Taylor provided the voice ... [...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'', the Bigheads on ''Rocko's Modern Life'', Ickis on ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'', Doctor Doom, Wrecker, Sabertooth and others in ''The Super Hero Squad Show'', MODOK in various Marvel media, Cobra Commander in '' GI Joe: Resolute'' and '' Renegades'', Starscream in the ''Transformers'' film series, Mr. Whiskers of Disney's '' Brandy & Mr. Whiskers'', the titular characters of Cartoon Network's '' Cow and Chicken'' along with its main antagonist, The Red Guy, Professor Monkey-for-a-Head in ''Earthworm Jim'', I.R. Baboon in '' I Am Weasel'', T-Bone in '' SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron'' and Tex Hex in ''Bravestarr''. 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 psychoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Schultz (producer)
Bill Schultz is an American 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'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Young (producer)
Michael Emlyn Young (born 16 October 1945) is a Welsh Emmy Award, Emmy and British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 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 the 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 character, Texas Pete. He trained as a television producer, and while working as an advertising Copywriting, copywriter he met his wife Liz Young. After the pair marriage, 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- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tavera
Michael Anthony Tavera is an American composer best known for his animation scores. He has also worked on countless television series, live-action films, and direct-to-video sequels. He composed at the London Symphony Orchestra. Biography Tavera grew up in Los Angeles. He is most notable for composing music for shows such as '' ¡Mucha Lucha!'', ''Star Wars Resistance ''Star Wars Resistance'' is an American 3D animated comic science fiction television series produced by Lucasfilm Animation. It follows Kazuda Xiono, a New Republic pilot who is recruited by the Resistance to spy on the growing threat of ...'', and '' Guardians of the Galaxy''. Filmography Film Television Video games Games References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavera, Michael Musicians from Los Angeles American film score composers American male film score composers American people of Dominican Republic descent American television composers Animated film score composers Living pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Schock
Harriet Schock (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter. She made three albums for a major label in the 1970s, scoring gold and platinum awards for her Grammy-nominated " Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady". She later moved into teaching and soundtrack work. In the 1990s, she resumed her recording career. Biography Early years Harriet Schock – née Schoch – was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in North Dallas, one of the two children of dermatologist Arthur Schoch and his wife the former Elizabeth Lubbes. The couple also have an older daughter, Sandra. Schock was taught by her father to play the piano by ear at age 4, then formally studied the piano throughout her school years. She wrote her first song in the seventh grade, and went on to write music for skits performed at her high school. She attended the Hockaday School, graduating in 1958. While earning her BA in English from UT Austin, Schock wrote songs for campus shows. After completing her BA in 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splash Entertainment
Splash Entertainment, LLC. (formerly known as Mike Young Productions, Inc. and MoonScoop Entertainment, LLC) is an American animation studio founded in 1990 by Mike Young, Liz Young and Bill Schultz that produces children's TV series. Splash also controls the streaming service Kabillion. History Independent era (1990–2005) 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'' and '' Bobby's World''). The studio makes both traditional 2D and 3D computer animation. The company launched a self-distribution unit in 2002. On March 29, 2004, the company launched Taffy Entertainment, which would become the company's rights management and worldwide distribution subsidiary. Taffy soon launched a licensing unit in August. Taffy wasn't the same company as Mike Young Productions, both had similar instances. Acquired by MoonScoop and rebranding (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Adlon
Pamela Adlon ( ; ; born July 9, 1966) is an American-British 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), Margaret "Moose" Pearson in '' Pepper Ann'' (1997–2000), Ashley Spinelli in '' Recess'' (1997–2001), Otto Osworth in '' Time Squad'' (2001–2003), Vidia in the '' Tinkerbell'' franchise 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 Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Disney
Melissa Disney is an American voice actress and writer. She is most known as the voice of the titular character in the Nickelodeon animated series '' As Told by Ginger''. Disney's other voice roles include Vivi Ornitier in ''Kingdom Hearts II'', Menagerie in '' Superman vs. The Elite'', and Imoen in the ''Baldur's Gate'' series. Early life Disney is the granddaughter of silent film actress Toy Gallagher. She has often claimed to be a 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 film 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 series '' 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 Courtney Love and Britney Spears Britney Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
