Jan Rabson

Jan Rabson (June 14, 1954 - October 14, 2022) was an American actor and voice actor.

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 inaninimate objects for Johnny's sketches. Most recently Jan's voice can be heard in all the Pixar "Carstoon" 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 Akira (the Streamline dub for Orion Pictures) under that name. He is also the voice of video game character Larry Laffer, of Leisure Suit Larry fame.

Rabson resided in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada and divided work between Vancouver and Los Angeles productions. He died on October 14, 2022, at the age of 68.

Filmography

 * Akira as Tetsuo Shima; Eiichi Watanabe; clowns; cops; young Tetsuo; others
 * Black Magic M-66 as the newscaster talking with Leakey
 * G-Force: Guardians of Space as: Hoot Owl (Hooty); Dr Brighthead; Computor
 * The Wings of Honneamise as the guy with the glasses at a funeral; the small sparrer
 * Street Fighter II V as the coke thug with a red hat (episode 9); Han (episode 11)
 * Mobile Suit Gundam film adaptations as others
 * Toy Story 3 as Sparks
 * Horton Hears a Who! - Town Cryer
 * Justice League - Professor Elrich
 * The New Adventures of Jonny Quest - Avery/Donaldson
 * Animaniacs -
 * Pinky and the Brain -
 * James Bond, Jr. - Goldfinger