In 1990, Adler lent his voice to Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures. on The Flintstone Kids, Pinky Dalton on The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, Quark and Zappy on Rockin' with Judy Jetson, the TurkeyBoy in a McDonald's commercials, Mad Dog, Hacksaw, and Howard Huge in TaleSpin, Dripple on Tom and Jerry Kids, and the titular character on Paddington Bear. O'Greasy on A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Deputy Fuzz and Tex Hex on Bravestarr, Cavey Jr. He became active in animation, his roles include reprising Spike on My Little Pony, Low-Light on G.I. Then I got it and it was just so not what I wanted to do.'

In an interview for The Magic Behind the Voices, Adler commented on the experience: 'you spend your whole life going, 'God, I just want to be in a TV show and have a parking space'. He was disenchanted with live-action acting after working on The Redd Foxx Show, in which he portrayed Ralph/Rita. His voice acting career took off when Adler landed the roles of Nat Smurfling in the fourth season of The Smurfs, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper on Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, Silverbolt on The Transformers and Eric Raymond, Techrat and Zipper in Jem.

He improvised characters during the tape, which impressed both McSwain and Thornton, however, left him so embarrassed with his performance that he performed with his back to them and his face hidden with a hat and sunglasses. Having no demo, they arranged for him to record an audition. McSwain recalls that 'he blew their minds' but he claims that initially they had no interest in him. An agent had praised him in front of them as the 'next Frank Welker'. In 1985, after convincing the head of the Abrams, Rubiloff and Lawrence agency to allow him to audition for their voice-over department, Adler later attended a private audition for Ginny McSwain and Arlene Thornton. Īdler's first animation role was recorded in New York, voicing Spike in Rescue at Midnight Castle.

In 19 he starred as Arnold Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy, for which he was nominated for the 1985 Helen Hayes Best Actor Award, in New York City before moving to California in 1986. During this time, he worked a variety of jobs, including waiter, janitor, paper delivery man, floor stripper, house painter, remedial reading teacher and caretaker for an Episcopal church.

JSTOR ( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īdler's first professional acting job was in a commercial in 1971.

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