Bio

I was born in St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village on September 8, 1951. The legendary Ed Sullivan noted my birth in his column because my father was, at that time, featured on two television series: Sid Caesar’s Show of Shows and The Fred Waring Show. Seven years later I was singing jingles my father had written. At eight years old I appeared in a live NBC Opera telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s Maria Golovin.

As an adult, I played a Maryland state trooper colonel in The Wire and a United States senator in Veep. I also played Governor John Connally—who was shot but survived the JFK assassination—in the movie Jackie.

I have voiced numerous characters in video games. I was the voice of Butch DeLoria in Fallout 3 and the Adoring Fan in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; I also voiced the male Elves (High, Wood, Dark) in Oblivion, as well as Sticky, Harkness, and many “Additional Voices” in Fallout 3. I (happily) reprised the Adoring Fan in Starfield.

I’ve been fortunate to narrate more than 500 documentaries, including Changing Seas, National Geographic’s Drain the Oceans, Nature, Nova: New Eye on the Universe, Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia, The World Trade Center: Anatomy of the Collapse, The Incredible Human Machine, Decoding COVID-19, and more.

I am a voice many recognize, even if they don’t always know the name.

Also… half a century ago, I was the voice of “Boy #1” in the very first Lucky Charms cereal commercial!