Category talk:American voice actors

Note on gender
Actor is a gender-neutral term. It is appropriate to use on articles of people who have non-binary gender identities. - CorbieV  ☊ ☼ 18:20, 16 May 2019 (UTC)

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Should we really include people who don't voice act often? -- ( trogga ) 21:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I was thinking the exact same thing. There are people in this category just because they had one voice over part. Disney is notorius for casting movie stars as voice overs in their films, even though in the majority of cases, that is the only VA that actor ever did. This category should be for professional voice actors like Tom Kenny or Billy West. --Philo 14:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Criteria
Regarding my post above, I propose we use criteria for who can be considered a "voice actor". For one, a majority of their acting credits should be for voice work. There are too many celebrities listed in this category who only did voice work for some Disney movies so Disney could use their popularity to promote their movie. --Philo 11:30, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I completely agree. Voice actors are those like Frank Welker, Jim Cummings, and people most views would never have heard of by name. Their majority work is in voice and rarely have appeared on screen. BenW (talk) 07:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

New category needed?
Technically (and sadly), anyone who has voiced one television episode, or one feature film, is considered a "voice actor". This is causing problems with veteran voice actors -- those who do little to no onscreen work, period -- losing jobs to "big names" who are only too happy to sign on for a job where makeup (and dealing with other actors) is not needed.

Perhaps Wikipedia needs a new, separate category for "one-time characters" (this would include those celebrities whose character voices were reused for game tie-ins and sequels); i.e. Robin Williams in Aladdin and Demi Moore in The Hunchback of Notre Dame should both go into this new category. These instances have more in common with "guest star" roles than voice acting itself.

Another thought: only include those here who have more voice work than onscreen work, or who have worked 50 percent in each category. [sweetalker79]--76.7.80.50 (talk) 20:59, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

John Beck only performed as a voice actor once in a career in which he made over 200 TV/film appearances, yet Denise Bryer ( a "Real" voice actor - i.e., a performer who specialised in lending her voice to puppet and cartoon characters, mainly in childrens TV/films) doesn't even have her own page on Wikipedia! This section is a bit Mickey Mouse (no pun intended)!

Companies hire actors to do voice work as a way of advertising the film. this began with Aladdin when Disney hired robin williams. so no, they don't need a new category. we just need to remove people that only did voice work once. --Philip Laurence (talk) 15:51, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov voiced Prince John in the movie Robin Hood. Why he is not present in this list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vitek778 (talk • contribs) 11:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)