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Harvey Atkin (born December 18, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor who has worked in feature films and television. He has also done voice-overs, and has voiced animations. is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A voice-over is a narration that is played on top of a video segment, usually with the audio for that segment muted or lowered. ...
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From an early age he was exposed to many things that would shape his view of life. His grandfather, an immigrant from Russia, steeped his young grandson in the old country's ways, which included the Yiddish language. Atkin claims that to this day, his late grandfather is still a major influence on him. He and his parents lived with him for several years before finally getting their own house – around the corner from his grandfather's. Yiddish (Yid. ...
Atkin's father, for his part, played an equally important role in his son's upbringing. It was he who taught Atkin about the business world. However, at this time, it seemed that Atkin's "job description" was "class clown".
Owing to Atkin's continual clowning in school, he was encouraged to join the school's drama club. This, and his winning a best actor award at a local drama festival, drove him into a career in acting. A stint at a summer camp for the performing arts also helped in his choice of career. The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some...
Harvey was also best known for playing Sam in The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police, and also played Mario's and Luigi's arch enemy Bowser Koopa on the DiC Entertainment version of Nintendo's flagship franchise (notably, he is the first English voice actor for the character). Harvey also did the voice of Mr. Mushnik on Little Shop, loosely based on the movie Little Shop Of Horrors. Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ...
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King Bowser Koopa, as seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door King Bowser Koopa, known in Japan as Koopa (Japanese: クッパ), a fictional turtle-like character from Nintendo video games, is Mario and Luigis arch-nemesis (although he has joined forces with them in a few games). ...
The DiC Incredible World logo used from late 2001 to present. ...
Various television shows based on Super Mario Bros. ...
Harvey Atkin has appeared in more than 75 films, and has appeared hundreds of times in episodic television shows. He has done voice-over work in literally thousands of television and radio commercials, for which he has won three Clio awards. The Clio Awards are given to reward creative excellence in advertising and design. ...
He is perhaps best known as the desk sergeant in the television series Cagney & Lacey, and as the hapless, heavily sleeping camp director and practical joke victim Morty in the 1979 film Meatballs, for which performance he earned a Genie nomination. Cagney & Lacey was an American television series that aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from 1982 to 1988, best known as American TVs first serious drama series with two female leads. ...
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DVD cover Meatballs is a 1979 movie comedy, about a summer-camp. ...
The Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian films and television, by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. ...
Harvey Atkin is currently a regular on the television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and is the voice-over in Leon's commercials in Canada. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC...
Leons (Léon in Quebec) is a Canadian furniture superstore which first opened its store in 1909 by Lebanese immigrants. ...
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