In September 2021, his daughter Sam confirmed that he had officially retired from voice acting due to his stroke. Kane suffered a stroke in November 2020 which left him with weakness on the right side of his body and damage to his speaking, writing, and reading abilities. He also voiced Plague Champion in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising and Retribution.ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Kane was one of several voices for health and safety announcements at Walt Disney World. He had experience in voicing the character on several occasions for video games in the franchise prior to the film's release. Kane made his debut in the Star Wars film saga as the voice of Admiral Ackbar in 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi, taking over the role from the late Erik Bauersfeld. In 2013, he took over as the announcer of The Eric Andre Show, replacing Gary Anthony Williams. On April 13, 2012, Kane took over for Joe Hursh as the voice of the Walt Disney World Monorail System. He also played Odin (the father of Thor and Loki) in the video game adaption of Thor as well as the Disneyland attraction: Thor: Treasures of Asgard, taking over the role from Anthony Hopkins from the film. In addition, he has been the announcer for the AFI Life Achievement Award show twice, as well as the 78th, 80th, 83rd, 84th, and 90th Academy Awards. In the arena of non-animation voiceover work, Kane records commercials, film trailers and television promos. In Call of Duty: World at War, Black Ops, Black Ops II, Black Ops III and Black Ops IIII, he provides the voice of Takeo Masaki, a Japanese WWII soldier and WWI warrior in the Zombies game mode. Kane is also a prominent video game voice actor, appearing in numerous titles - from bit parts, to major roles such as Gandalf, Professor X and lead characters in many Star Wars games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as Imperial Captain Ozzik Sturn, Lobot and Kento Marek (the father of Sam Witwer's Galen Marek) thanks to ILM's motion capture technology. He has voiced Oxnard Montalvo in The Angry Beavers and the chimpanzee sidekick Darwin in The Wild Thornberrys. Herriman in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Lord Monkey Fist on Kim Possible, Professor Utonium and HIM in The Powerpuff Girls.
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He is known for his animation work throughout his career, including Jedi Master Yoda and Admiral Yularen in Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film and TV series, The Chancellor in 9, Magneto in Wolverine and the X-Men and Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Ultron in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Mr. Kane began his voice-over career in 1977, at fifteen years old.
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