Gary Owens

Template:Infobox actor 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

Roles

20th century

• Space Ghost & Dino Boy (1966-1967)
  • Space Ghost
• The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1968-1970)
  • 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
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993-1994)
  • Ulysses Feral
• Dexter's Laboratory
  • Blue Falcon ("Dyno-Might," 1998)
• Johnny Bravo

21st century

• 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.