Corey Burton, born on August 3, 1955, is a voice actor who first got involved in radio dramas during his teenage years.
He worked on western radio dramas. In the late '70s there was a rebirth of classic radio drama. It was first sponsored by Sears, and then became Mutual Radio Theater. He first got involved with the Star Wars universe, in the year of 1979, at age 25. He played the voice-role of Luke Skywalker for a 1979 Disney Read-Along book/record retelling the story of Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. A year later he provided the voice for Rebel pilot Hobbie for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
During this session, he met Mark Hamill, who asked Burton to sign the Star Wars Read-Along record as "Luke 2". Years later, he would return to the Star Wars Universe to play Count Dooku and San Hill in the Clone Wars animated series. He reprised his role as Dooku in several LucasArts video games, including Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, The Clone Wars, and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds. He played Whorm Loathsom and Ziro the Hutt in the Star Wars The Clone Wars movie however, he did not play Count Dooku as Dooku was played by Christopher Lee who played Dooku in the prequel trilogy. He is the official "audio double" for the character portrayed by Christopher Lee.
Corey also provides the voice of Cad Bane in The Clone Wars animated series. He is a fan of James Earl Jones and claims to enjoy playing villains.
Roles
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back - Rebel Pilot Hobbie(Uncredited)
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds – Count Dooku, Jedi starfighter pilot, General Tal Ashen
- The Clone Wars – Battle Droid Scout, Count Dooku
- Star Wars: Bounty Hunter – Count Dooku, Prison guard #1 San Hill/Count Dooku/Warrior #2
- Star Wars: Clone Wars – San Hill, Count Dooku, Warrior #2
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords – Additional Voices
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith game – Count Dooku, Flying Battle Droids, "Jedi sniper", Rune Haako, "Jedi brute", Jedi pilot
- Star Wars: Battlefront II – Count Dooku, Imperial Officer 2, Ki-Adi-Mundi
- Star Wars: Empire at War – TIE Fighter Pilot, V-Wing Pilot, Additional Voices
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film) – Whorm Loathsom, Ziro the Hutt
Star Wars The Clone Wars voice work
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Ambush" (Count Dooku)- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Rising Malevolence" (Count Dooku)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Shadow of Malevolence" (Count Dooku)- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Destroy Malevolence" (Count Dooku)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cloak of Darkness" (Count Dooku/Senate commando)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Lair of Grievous" (Count Dooku)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Dooku Captured" (Count Dooku)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Gungan General" (Count Dooku/Kharrus)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Defenders of Peace" (Count Dooku)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Storm Over Ryloth" (Mar Tuuk)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Innocents of Ryloth" (TX-20/Nilim Bril)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Liberty on Ryloth" (Count Dooku/Gobi Glie)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Hostage Crisis" (Cad Bane/Ziro the Hutt/Shahan Alama)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Holocron Heist" (Cad Bane/Analyzer droid)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Cargo of Doom" (Cad Bane)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Children of the Force" (Cad Bane)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "The Mandalore Plot" (Count Dooku/Death Wat troop/Mandalorian bomber)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Voyage of Temptation" (Protocol droid)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars — "Duchess of Mandalore" (Count Dooku/Jerec/Aramis)
External links
- Corey Burton: Voicing Villains on StarWars.com (backup link (theclonewars/news20090320.html) not verified!)
- Corey Burton on Wikipedia
- Corey Burton at the Internet Movie Database
- Official Website
