Bill Ratner Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Bill Ratner is a published author, American voice actor, and solo performance artist. His personal essays are published in: The Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review and The Missouri Review.Ratner’s performances of his personal essays are featured on KCRW’s Strangers, and National Public Radio's The Business. and Good Food. He tours nationally for storytelling conferences, and festivals, is a regular competitor in The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles, is an eight-time Moth StorySLAM Winner, a National Storytelling Festival Story Slam teller-Jonesborough TN, a National Storytelling Network storyteller. He has been a Los Angeles Unified School storyteller since 1993. He is a contributing author of the book Secrets of Voiceover Success. He is a two-time winner of "Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension" - Solo Category for "Bobbywood: Whatever Happened to Bobby the Bellboy?" in 2013 and Voices in my Head: A Life. He is a member of Actors Equity Association, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) where he teaches voiceovers, and chairs the Hollywood SAG-AFTRA TV Promo & Movie Trailer Announcers Caucus. He is best known for being the voice of Flint in Hasbro’s syndicated TV cartoon G.I. Joe. He reprised the role of “Flint” in episodes of Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Community. He is the movie trailer voice for Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Tenacious D, Mike Myers's The Love Guru, Monsters vs. Aliens, Observe and Report, Extract, The Goods, Youth in Revolt, and many more. He is the narrator in documentaries on Discovery, A&E, E! True Hollywood Story, Travel Channel and History. His voice is on Kings Quest, Grand Theft Auto III & Grand Theft Auto IV, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. and is the narrator in episodes of Ben 10 for the Cartoon Network. Bill is also a voice-over announcer for television stations across the United States.
Ratner is an 8-time winner of The Moth Story Slams. His stories are heard on NPR. He is a voice on movie trailers: The Rum Diary, MegaMind, Yogi Bear, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Observe & Report, The Goods, Extract, Youth in Revolt, etc. plus documentaries on WX Channel, Discovery, History Channel, Smithsonian, A&E, and TV promos on NBC-TV, ABC-TV, Tru-TV, HDNet, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and he is the voice of Udina on Mass Effect I, II & III, storyteller on Ben Ten, and radio voice on Grand Theft Auto.
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In 2009 Ratner and G.I. Joe director Wally Burr were interviewed for the Special Features on the 17 DVD Collectors Set of G.I. Joe released by Hasbro. Ratner and Mary McDonald-Lewis, who provided the voice of Lady Jaye on GI Joe, both did an interview for the 2004 DVD release of the series, recalling how the auditions were like an old time Hollywood "cattle call" with hundreds of actors lined up, holding scripts in shaking hands. Ratner recalled that part of his audition required him to grunt and groan as if he were in a fight. He and Mary had both worked together before GI Joe, doing an ad for a local store, where she remembered her lines but he didn't.
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Voice of Flint from the GI Joe animated series of the 1980s. His role of Flint is also reprised on episodes of Family Guy and Robot Chicken.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fainaru fantajî XV
2016
Video Game
Additional Voices (English version, voice)
Fantasy Hospital
2016
TV Series
Berry King
I (Almost) Got Away with It
2010-2016
TV Series documentary
Narrator
Air Disasters
2011-2016
TV Series
Narrator
Aidan Park: On the F List
2015
TV Series
Bill Ratner
Lincoln's Last Day
2015
TV Movie documentary
Narrator
I (Almost) Got Away with It: What Would Kenda Do?
2014
TV Series
Narrator
Office Ninja
2014
Mr. Carlin
Community
2014
TV Series
Flint
Grand Theft Auto V
2013
Video Game
Republican Space Rangers Announcer (voice)
Dr Awkward
2013
Short
Professor
Mass Effect 3
2012
Video Game
Donnel Udina (voice)
Behind Mansion Walls
2011
TV Series documentary
Narrator
Scents & Nonsense
2010
Short
Narrator (voice)
Mass Effect 2
2010
Video Game
Donnel Udina
Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner (voice)
The Lifter Upper
2009
Short voice, uncredited
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
2009
Video Game
Announcer - The Men's Room / Announcer - Republican Space Rangers (voice)
Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned
2009
Video Game
Announcer - Republican Space Rangers / Announcer - The Men's Room (voice)
Robot Chicken
2006-2009
TV Series
Flint
George Henderson
Gomez Addams
...
Air Emergency
2008
TV Series documentary
Narrator
Grand Theft Auto IV
2008
Video Game
Announcer for The Men's Room / Republican Space Rangers Announcer / Split Sides Announcer / ... (voice)
