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Darth Bombshell wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:Wasn't he the guy that tried to mug Kramer on the subway in that Seinfeld episode? He was credited as Christopher Collins but I think that was just a pseudonym.

Christopher Collins is his real name. Chris Latta is his stage name.

Wikipedia wrote:Collins was born Christopher Lawrence Latta in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, New York City. His legal name became Christopher Charles Collins when his stepfather adopted him. Collins' biological father, Robert Latta, was a New York stage actor. His mother, Jane Morin, worked as an advertising executive. In his stand-up routine, he claimed to have grown up in Harlem and said his ultra-liberal parents had moved the family there "so he could meet some Negroes." (Morningside Heights is sometimes called "West Harlem.")

After a year at New York University, he studied acting, dance, voice and mime. In the mid-1970s, he acted on the New York and Boston stage and did voice-over work for Boston radio station WBCN. He made his animation voice acting debut as one of the English dubbers of the 1979 anime series Space Battleship Yamato (also called Star Blazers). He was most recognizable in that series as the voice of space marine Sgt. Knox during the Comet Empire installment.

Voice work

One of Collins' earlier voice works was in Star Blazers second series broadcast in the United States The Comet Empire. His most notable role in the series was that of space marine Sergent Webb Knox (Saito in the Japanese version).

In 1983, Collins started voicing Cobra Commander for a five-part G.I. Joe animated miniseries. In 1984, he reprised the role for a second five-part animated mini-series, which became a regular series in 1985. Also in 1984, Collins voiced a new character, Starscream, for a three-part Transformers animated miniseries. By 1985, he was voicing other G.I. Joe and Transformers characters in toy commercials, carrying on in those roles when the two television series made their debut. When he began doing regular voice work, he adopted the stage name Chris Latta because another Screen Actors Guild actor was performing as "Chris Collins".

Bouncy X wrote:Latta was WheelJack? damn, i had no clue.

since Starscream and Cobra Commander sounded practically identical, i just figured he was one of those voice actors who are limited. kinda like many of the Hanna Barbera actors, its hilarious watching their shows today and seeing how often the same voices pop up in multiple series. and they dont even bother trying to change em. so i always thought Starscream was the only voice he did on Transformers. lol

AutobotMR2 wrote:

Bouncy X wrote:Latta was WheelJack? damn, i had no clue.

since Starscream and Cobra Commander sounded practically identical, i just figured he was one of those voice actors who are limited. kinda like many of the Hanna Barbera actors, its hilarious watching their shows today and seeing how often the same voices pop up in multiple series. and they dont even bother trying to change em. so i always thought Starscream was the only voice he did on Transformers. lol

It is pretty funny when you go back and look at the cast and who all they voiced. Some of the VA's had up to 6 characters they voiced at a time...it's really funny knowing Cullen voiced both Prime and Ironhide because he was talking to himself alot, same with Welker voicing Megatron and Soundwave.

craggy wrote:I've never even heard of TRANHSFORMERS, let alone read any of the comics that Simon Furman might have wrote for them.

Nicely done, Hasbro Copy Writer!

Seibertron wrote:

Darth Bombshell wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:Wasn't he the guy that tried to mug Kramer on the subway in that Seinfeld episode? He was credited as Christopher Collins but I think that was just a pseudonym.

Christopher Collins is his real name. Chris Latta is his stage name.

That's incorrect. He was born Latta, adopted as Collins, and used Latta because there was another actor in the guild named Chris Collins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Latta