Gary Owens

Gary Owens
Years active at Hanna-Barbera	1966-1998
Years active at Warner Bros.	2008
Characters played	Space Ghost Perils of Penelope Pitstop narrator Blue Falcon Commander Ulysses Feral

Gary Bernard Altman, known by his stage name of Gary Owens, was an American radio announcer, personality, disc jockey and voice actor. He originated the voices of the Hanna-Barbera superheroes Space Ghost and Blue Falcon.

Owens died of Type 1 diabetes on February 12, 2015, at the age of 80.

Roles

20th century

• Space Ghost (1966-1967; 1981-1982)
  • Space Ghost
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
  • Narrator
• Dynomutt, Dog Wonder (1976-1978)
  • Blue Falcon
• Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978)
  • Blue Falcon
• 2 Stupid Dogs
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977-1980)
  • Narrator
• Space Stars (1981-1982)
  • Space Ghost
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993-1994)
  • Commander Ulysses Feral
• What a Cartoon!
  • Announcer ("The Great Egg-Scape," 1997)
  • Commander ("The Great Egg-Scape," 1997)
• Dexter's Laboratory
  • Blue Falcon ("Dyno-Might," 1998)

21st century

• Johnny Bravo
  • Himself ("Johnny Makeover," 2004)
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2008)
  • Space Ghost

Behind the scenes

• Owens voiced Space Ghost in the second test pilot to Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but was replaced by George Lowe when the series was picked up. Lowe's voice began by doing an impression of Owens, before realizing that his own voice better suited the Coast to Coast version.