- Earl Hammond
Earl Hammond (
June 17 ,1921 -May 1 ,2002 ) was an actor and voice actor. He is best remembered by 80s fans for providing the voices of Mumm-Ra, Jaga, and other characters on the children's TV series "ThunderCats ". He also voiced the "Transformers" villainMegatron in a series of children's read-along books and performed the role ofBuck Rogers in the 50s ABC television series.Earl Hammond was born Erwin Saul. He was born in NYC and was raised in buffalo NY. Earl had acted his whole life, starting on radio when he was 7 years old. He was drafted in the army for WW2 and was trained to do morsecode. after the War he moved out to LA where he worked as an actor and went to collage. He returned to NYC when he was 20 and never left again. He changed his name in the 50's to Earl Hammond. Earl had two children, Eric Bryce and Gwenyth Audree. Eric is now a Chef with one child Justin residing in Chicago and Gwenyth is a musician with two children Kaya and Dexter residing in Munich Germany. Earl passed away at a NYC hospice. He was 80 years old.
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