Jan Rabson

Jan Rabson (born June 14, 1954) is an American voice actor and actor.

Biography
Rabson was born in East Meadow, New York. Jan's voice has been heard on thousands of commercials, films, TV shows and animated films and series. For many years, Jan was a member of Johnny Carson's "Mighty Carson Art Players", performing in on-camera sketches as well as providing the voices for answering machines, cash registers and other inanimate objects for Johnny's sketches. One of his more famous roles included providing the voice for Larry Laffer in the Leisure Suit Larry series. Most recently, Jan's voice can be heard in all of the Pixar Cars Toons shorts as well as Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E and many more. In some of his anime dubbing and on-camera work, he used the name Stanley Gurd Jr., and is best known for voicing Tetsuo Shima from the original dub of Akira under that name.

In 1988, Rabson was the very first contestant & champion on Blackout.

Rabson resides in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada and divides work between Vancouver and Los Angeles productions.

Anime

 * G-Force: Guardians of Space (1972-1974) - Hoot Owl (various episodes), Dr. Brighthead (various episodes) , Additional Voices
 * Don Quixote in the Tales of La Mancha (1980) - Notoro's Disguises, Mayor (ep. 1), Dream Adversary (ep. 1)
 * The Magical World of Gigi (1982-1983) - Coco (1st voice), King Cuthbert (1st voice) , Narrator (1st voice)
 * Robotech: The Macross Saga (1985) - Bron (eps. 9-14), Commercial Voice (ep. 8) , Taxi Driver (ep. 8) , Khyron's Subordinate 1 (ep. 8) , Additional Voices
 * Street Fighter II V (1995) - Rose Subordinate 2 (ep. 7), Han (ep. 9) (Animaze Dub)

Anime Films

 * Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp (1982) - Grand Wazir (MGM Dub)
 * Warriors of the Wind (1984) - Additional Voices
 * Akira (1988) - Tetsuo Shima, Yūji Takeyama, Councilman 6 (Electric Media Dub)
 * Thumbelina: A Magical Story (1993) - Narrator, George, Crystal Prince, Hobbit #2, Shadow Prince
 * Ponyo (2009) - Additional Voices