Ron Gans
Birthday: Born in 1931-09-08 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deathday: 2010-06-29
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."
TV Credits
Dumbo's Circus
Character: Q.T. (voice)
Dumbo's Circus was a live-action/puppet television series that aired on Disney Channel, featuring the character of Dumbo from the original film. The series was in production for three and a half seasons, and reruns continued to air until February 28, 1997. Many of the show's cast went on to star in the popular Christian radio series, Adventures in Odyssey....
Quincy, M.E.
Character:
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations....
Lost in Space
Character: Frog Alien (voice)
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson...
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Character:
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling is an American animated television series that originally aired on CBS Saturday mornings from September 14, 1985 to December 6, 1986, with reruns airing until June 27, 1987....
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
Character: Juggernaut (voice)
Pryde of the X-Men was a short-lived series about the X-Men, with the main character being Kitty Pryde (whose alias is Shadow Cat, though she never becomes Shadow Cat in the series), which is why the series is titled Pryde of the X-Men. The show was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, who made a pilot for NBC. The pilot aired, but for unknown reasons, it was never turned into a full-blown series. Despite it not becoming a full series, the pilot has aired in syndication, and wa...
Perry Mason
Character: Joe Velvet
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent....
Perry Mason
Character: Male Nurse
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent....
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Armus (voice)
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds....
Lost in Space
Character: Creature (voice)
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson...
Lost in Space
Character: Alien Leader
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson...
Welcome to Pooh Corner
Character: Eeyore (voice)
Welcome to Pooh Corner is a live-action/puppet television series that aired on Disney Channel, featuring the characters from the Winnie the Pooh universe portrayed by actors in human-sized puppet suits, except Roo, who was originally a traditional puppet. The animatronic costumes used for the characters were created by Alchemy II, Inc., headed by Ken Forsse who later created the toy sensation Teddy Ruxpin. It was first aired on April 18, 1983, the day Disney Channel was launched, being the first...
Movie Credits
Heartbeeps
Character: Crimebuster Deluxe (voice)
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together....
Day is Done
Character: 3rd Soldier
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road....
Bonnie's Kids
Character: Radio Newscaster (voice)
After killing their repulsive stepfather, emboldened sisters Myra and Ellie set out to become career criminals. While enjoying the freedom of being bad, the new lawbreakers stumble into a stash of mob money, which they’ll stop at nothing to keep....
Black Silk Stockings
Character: Narrator (voice)
Five stories connected by the actresses all wearing black silk stockings. In the first, an art seller and a real estate agent work on the sale of a painting. Next, Alex has his stenographer take some dictation...and other things. A couple enjoys some alone time, while a professor teaches a group of students. Finally, a pair of models accept an assignment from a photographer....
Sex Freaks
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sex Freaks is a catalog of all things kinky - voyeurism, nymphomania, sadomasochism - with a few unusual novelties thrown in along the way (sex in a carwash, at a bullfight, underwater, in the snow). This unusual example of a Sex-Shockumentary posits that the Devil is responsible for our deviant ways!...
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Character: Ken
Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe....
Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Character: Cooking Lesson (voice)
There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot sequel to The Cheerleaders. Rainbeaux Smith (from the first film) is back ... and pregnant!...
Battle of Blood Island
Character: Ken
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive....
Group Marriage
Character: Interviewer
Chris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis. Dennis invites the couple to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan. At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil, who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five. Phil brings in a person, lawyer Elaine. The "group marriage" of the six of them attracts media attention, which brings trouble and prejudice....
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating....
Operation Mad Ball
Character: Tinneman (uncredited)
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer....
Runaway, Runaway
Character: The Attacker
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her....
The Gay Deceivers
Character: Freddie
Two men try to avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they must act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it....
Coffy
Character: Stranger
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path....
Deathsport
Character: Narrator (voice)
1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states. Notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz is forced to fight in the DeathSport, dueling on futuristic motorcycle "Death Machines". With the help of renegade vixen Deneer, Kaz must face his past and fight to save himself and his people....
Hidden Guns
Character: Burt Miller
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness....
Hell Night
Character: Driver (as Ronald Gans)
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family....
Go for It
Character: Narrator
Extreme sports meets midnight movie with a film that showcases wild surfing and skateboarding madness....
Sexual Liberty Now
Character: Narrator (voice)
A look at porn in the USA following the publication of the Government's 1967 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography....
Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure
Character: Eeyore (voice)
Pooh thinks that Christopher Robin has forgotten his lunch and he, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, Owl, and Eeyore hop on a school bus to give it to him at school. While on the school bus, they demonstrate and discuss the rules and safety of riding the bus....
Tea and Sympathy
Character: Dick
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards with him was his housemaster's wife....
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Character: Chapman (uncredited)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it....
Too Smart for Strangers
Character: Eeyore (voice)
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl and the rest of the gang discuss all the dangers of strangers and how you should handle yourself should you ever come face to face with a stranger....
Appointment in Honduras
Character: Mexican Lieutenant (uncredited)
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards...
The Wild Racers
Character:
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much less successful and his winning on the track only serves to alienate the woman he loves - with unhappy consequences....
The Student Nurses
Character: Psychiatrist
Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs....
The Thing with Two Heads
Character: Reporter in Tan Coat (uncredited)
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row....
The Raw Ones
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun....
Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Character: Narrator (voice)
Starting as a documentary on the sexually liberated culture of late-Sixties Denmark, Sexual Freedom in Denmark winds up incorporating major elements of the marriage manual form and even manages to squeeze in a montage of beaver loops and erotic art. All narrated with earnest pronouncements concerning the social and psychological benefits of sexual liberation, the movie, is a kind of mondo film dotted with occasional glimpses of actual sex....
The Secret of Lost Valley
Character: Bartender
While on a family outing, a boy, Adam, gets lost in the forest and discovers a wild boy there. Communicating by sign language, they become friends. When the wild boy is captured by scientists, Adam helps him escape....
Chameleons
Character: Inner Circle Speaker (Uncredited)
Shelley, a slightly-crazy heiress, discovers that her eccentric millionaire uncle Jason Carr was rather more eccentric than even she had thought--he was a costumed superhero in his spare time, half of a duo calling itself "Captain Chameleon and the Paraclete of Justice." Now Shelley must find out exactly who murdered her uncle, with the help of her uncle's mysterious and handsome partner in fighting crime....
Not of This Earth
Character: Radio Movie Spot Announcer (Voice)
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet....