Ron Gans

Known for ActingBorn 1931-09-08Died 2010-06-29Chicago, Illinois, USA

While many people may not know Ron Gans' face, any self-respecting fan of 70s drive-in exploitation cinema should be highly familiar with his extremely distinctive and unmistakable deep'n'dulcet velvet smooth golden throat voice. Gans lent his deliciously plummy tones to numerous theatrical trailers for Roger Corman's New World Pictures which include "The Student Nurses," "The Big Doll House," "Bury Me An Angel," "Night Call Nurses," "The Big Bird Cage," "The Arena," "Caged Heat," and "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase." Gans also did the trailers for "Terminal Island" and "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane." Moreover, Gans' booming sonorous voice can be heard on the radio spots for John Carpenter's "Halloween" and Lucio Fulci's "Zombie." Gans hilariously sent up his trailer work in the sidesplitting "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" sketch in the riotous anthology comedy "The Kentucky Fried Movie." He was likewise amusing as the pompous voice of a cooking instructor in the uproariously raunchy "Revenge of the Cheerleaders." Gans narrated the documentaries "The Raw Ones," "Sexual Liberty Now," and "Go for It." On television Gans was the voices for both Kanga and Roo on the Walt Disney Channel children's show "Welcome to Pooh Corner" and the voice of Drag Strip on the "Transformers" cartoon program. He was especially effective as the metallic voice of Crimebuster in the charming sci-fi comedy "Heartbeeps" and the sinister voice of Armus on the "Skin of Evil" episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Among his occasional on-screen appearances are a job interviewer in "Group Marriage," a would-be rapist in the sordid "Runaway, Runaway," and a television newscaster in "Carnal Madness."Read more

Movies & web series

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Go for It

The Real Ghostbusters

Perry Mason

Quincy, M.E.

Chameleons

Lost in Space

Welcome to Pooh Corner

Tea and Sympathy

Coffy

Operation Mad Ball

Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men

Dumbo's Circus

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Day is Done

Sexual Liberty Now

Black Silk Stockings

Appointment in Honduras

Hell Night

Group Marriage

Hidden Guns

Bonnie's Kids

Sexual Freedom in Denmark

The Gay Deceivers

Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

Sex Freaks

Battle of Blood Island

The Student Nurses

The Thing with Two Heads

Not of This Earth

Heartbeeps

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

The Girls on the Beach

Night Call Nurses

The Raw Ones

Deathsport

The Wild Racers

Too Smart for Strangers

Runaway, Runaway

Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure

The Secret of Lost Valley