Arthur Burghardt

Arthur Burghardt is the kind of performer I admire most: the voice you know without knowing the face. Born in New York in 1947, he logged daytime drama time as Jack Scott on One Life to Live, but it's his cavernous bass that earns my respect, voicing Devastator in The Transformers and Destro and Stalker in G.I. Joe. He was also the first Black actor to play Disney's Pete. That quiet, craft-driven career, building memorable characters out of pure sound, is exactly the sort of legacy I think deserves more credit than it usually gets. A true voice artist.

Arthur Napier Burghardt (born August 29, 1947) is an American retired actor, best known for portraying Jack Scott on the soap opera One Life to Live. In animation, he is known for lending his deep bass voice as Devastator in The Transformers, Destro, Stalker and Iceberg in G.I. Joe and Pete (as the character's first and so far only Black performer) in several Disney video games.

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Name (English)

Arthur Burghardt

Name (Japanese)

アーサー・バガード

Reading

あーさー・ばがーど

Born

August 29, 1947 (age 78)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Boar

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

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Agency

Private

Occupation

film actor / stage actor / television actor / voice actor / actor

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

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University

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Spouse

Private

Children

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Parents

Private

Siblings

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Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88

Tags

• New York
• film actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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