Phil Snyder
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Phil Snyder is an American
actor, writer, producer, and director. He was born in Ellensburg
, Washington, the sixth child in a family of ten children. He began to demonstrate his love for, and natural skills in entertainment, especially impressions, at an early age. Snyder moved to Los Angeles
, California
, in 1974 to pursue a career in show business. After a few false starts, he became a regular paid performer at The Comedy Store
. He began pursuing a career in voice-overs for animated cartoons and commercials.
In 1996, Snyder had his first guest role in an animated TV series as Newt Gingrich
and "Bob" in an episode of Steven Spielberg
's Pinky and the Brain
. The episode title was "The Pink Candidate".
In 1998, Snyder starred in his first feature film
as Mr. Toad
in the American version of Martin Gates's The Wind in the Willows
. Snyder also played the villain, Thaddeus J. Pinchworm, in The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, which was animated by Klasky Csupo
.
In May 2010, Snyder became the official voice of the classic Disney character, Jiminy Cricket
. His first appearance as him was in the popular video game series, Kingdom Hearts
. He took over the role from Eddie Carroll
, who died in April 2010.
Phil is also the voice of the popular Mattel Toys interactive talking toy, "Stinky the Garbage Truck," which made its debut in 2010.
DISNEY CHRISTMAS AD - Jiminy Cricket - Disney Home Video
STINKY GARBAGE TRUCK AD - Stinky - Young & Rubicam/Mattel
TROPICANA ORANGE JUICE - Orange - Pepsico/Element 79
7-ELEVEN STORES - Cartoon Man - Richards Group/PBS
POPEYE’S CHICKEN - Popeye, Olive, Whimpy - Hill, Holiday Altschiller
PREMIER PARKS - Popeye, Olive, Bluto - Ackerman McQueen
TOYS ‘R’ US - Tough Guy, Crazy Guy - Wells Rich Greene
BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO - Octopus - Bernstein Rein
Movies
TELEVISION, EPISODIC WEBISODES -
AD IT UP: JUST AD MILK (Pilot) - Writer/Producer/Director - KAZAP Corp
THE NUMBEARS - All Roles (6 Million YouTube Views) - KAZAP Corp.
24—ONLINE ANIMATED - George Mason - Imagine Ent.
PINKY & THE BRAIN - Newt Gingrich & Bob Carlson - Spielberg/WB
SOMETHING SO RIGHT - Hector the Stuttering Parrot - Universal/NBC
RADIO, COMMERCIALS, TALK SHOWS -
DISCOVER CARD - Elf - Shine Adv/DG Entertainment
QUIK TRIP - Dad - Richards Group
JC PENNEY - Crazy Announcer - Ackerman McQueen
BOATMAN’S BANK - 3rd Little Pig - TBWA Kerlick Switzer
INFINCOM COPIERS - Dudley Doo-Right, Snidley - Moses Anshell
RICK DEES TOP 40 - Featured - Syndicated
GAMES, TOYS, NON-BROADCAST, VIDEOS -
KINGDOM HEARTS RE:CODED - Jiminy Cricket - Disney/Square Enix
DISNEY WORLD/DISNEY TOKYO - Jiminy Cricket - Walt Disney Imagineering
STINKY THE GARBAGE TRUCK - Stinky - Mattel Toys
ENDWAR - Fighter Pilots - Tom Clancy/Electronic Arts
CELL PHONE RING-TONES - Variety of Characters - FunMobility
RONALD McDONALD’S ADVENTURES - Professor Pinchworm - Klasky Csupo
SMARTQUEST ADVENTURE - Zack - Knowledge Adventure
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC - Pud, the Alien - George Lucas
POPEYE & THE MAMMOTH - Swea’pea, Bernice - Brilliant Digital
FELIX THE CAT CD-ROM - Felix, Professor, Poindexter - Film Roman
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS EXHIBIT - Dudley Doo-Right - Warren Peters
Comedy Stores of Hollywood, Las Vegas, La Jolla, & Universal City, Altantis Hotel in Atlantic City (Jeff Kutash's "Superstars & Stripes") Also regular at Ice House, Laff Stop, Igby’s, Coconuts, Laugh Factory, and Los Angeles area comedy clubs. Toured with World Champion gymnast, Kurt Thomas's "Gymnastics America" as MC/Host.
Americans
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...
actor, writer, producer, and director. He was born in Ellensburg
Ellensburg, Washington
Ellensburg is a city in, and the county seat of, Kittitas County, Washington, United States. The population was 18,174 at the 2010 census. The population was 18,250 at 2011 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. Ellensburg is located just east of the Cascade Range on I-90 and is known as the...
, Washington, the sixth child in a family of ten children. He began to demonstrate his love for, and natural skills in entertainment, especially impressions, at an early age. Snyder moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, in 1974 to pursue a career in show business. After a few false starts, he became a regular paid performer at The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has a sister comedy club in La Jolla, San Diego, California.-History:...
. He began pursuing a career in voice-overs for animated cartoons and commercials.
In 1996, Snyder had his first guest role in an animated TV series as Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich is a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as the House Minority Whip from 1989 to 1995 and as the 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999....
and "Bob" in an episode of Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
's Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky and the Brain is an American animated television series.The characters Pinky and the Brain first appeared in 1993 as a recurring segment on the show Animaniacs...
. The episode title was "The Pink Candidate".
In 1998, Snyder starred in his first feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
as Mr. Toad
Mr. Toad
Mr. Toad, Esq., of Toad Hall, is one of the main characters in the novel The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and also the title character of the A. A. Milne play Toad of Toad Hall based on the book.-Character:...
in the American version of Martin Gates's The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England...
. Snyder also played the villain, Thaddeus J. Pinchworm, in The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, which was animated by Klasky Csupo
Klasky Csupo
Klasky Csupo, Inc. is a multimedia entertainment production company located in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, founded by artist/producer, Arlene Klasky and animator, Gábor Csupó.- History :...
.
In May 2010, Snyder became the official voice of the classic Disney character, Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket
Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" , a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book Pinocchio, which was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940...
. His first appearance as him was in the popular video game series, Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts
is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square in 2002 for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The first game in the Kingdom Hearts series, it is the result of a collaboration between Square Enix and The Walt Disney Company. The game combines characters and settings from Disney...
. He took over the role from Eddie Carroll
Eddie Carroll
Eddie Carroll was a Canadian voice actor who moved to Hollywood in the 1950s to become an actor. He took over the role of Jiminy Cricket in 1973 after the death of original voice Cliff Edwards in 1971.-Filmography:...
, who died in April 2010.
Phil is also the voice of the popular Mattel Toys interactive talking toy, "Stinky the Garbage Truck," which made its debut in 2010.
Filmography
TELEVISION COMMERCIALS, PROMOS -DISNEY CHRISTMAS AD - Jiminy Cricket - Disney Home Video
STINKY GARBAGE TRUCK AD - Stinky - Young & Rubicam/Mattel
TROPICANA ORANGE JUICE - Orange - Pepsico/Element 79
7-ELEVEN STORES - Cartoon Man - Richards Group/PBS
POPEYE’S CHICKEN - Popeye, Olive, Whimpy - Hill, Holiday Altschiller
PREMIER PARKS - Popeye, Olive, Bluto - Ackerman McQueen
TOYS ‘R’ US - Tough Guy, Crazy Guy - Wells Rich Greene
BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO - Octopus - Bernstein Rein
Movies
- The Wind in Willows, Mr. Toad
- Crocodile HunterCrocodile HunterCrocodile Hunter may refer to:*Steve Irwin , star of The Crocodile Hunter*Malcolm Douglas , Australian wildlife documentary film maker and crocodile hunter*The Crocodile Hunter, TV nature program...
, George Bush (ADR) - The Perfect StormThe Perfect StormThe Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1997. The paperback edition followed in 1999 from HarperCollins' Perennial imprint...
, George Clooney (ADR) - Rewrite, Darrell Winslow
TELEVISION, EPISODIC WEBISODES -
AD IT UP: JUST AD MILK (Pilot) - Writer/Producer/Director - KAZAP Corp
THE NUMBEARS - All Roles (6 Million YouTube Views) - KAZAP Corp.
24—ONLINE ANIMATED - George Mason - Imagine Ent.
PINKY & THE BRAIN - Newt Gingrich & Bob Carlson - Spielberg/WB
SOMETHING SO RIGHT - Hector the Stuttering Parrot - Universal/NBC
RADIO, COMMERCIALS, TALK SHOWS -
DISCOVER CARD - Elf - Shine Adv/DG Entertainment
QUIK TRIP - Dad - Richards Group
JC PENNEY - Crazy Announcer - Ackerman McQueen
BOATMAN’S BANK - 3rd Little Pig - TBWA Kerlick Switzer
INFINCOM COPIERS - Dudley Doo-Right, Snidley - Moses Anshell
RICK DEES TOP 40 - Featured - Syndicated
GAMES, TOYS, NON-BROADCAST, VIDEOS -
KINGDOM HEARTS RE:CODED - Jiminy Cricket - Disney/Square Enix
DISNEY WORLD/DISNEY TOKYO - Jiminy Cricket - Walt Disney Imagineering
STINKY THE GARBAGE TRUCK - Stinky - Mattel Toys
ENDWAR - Fighter Pilots - Tom Clancy/Electronic Arts
CELL PHONE RING-TONES - Variety of Characters - FunMobility
RONALD McDONALD’S ADVENTURES - Professor Pinchworm - Klasky Csupo
SMARTQUEST ADVENTURE - Zack - Knowledge Adventure
INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC - Pud, the Alien - George Lucas
POPEYE & THE MAMMOTH - Swea’pea, Bernice - Brilliant Digital
FELIX THE CAT CD-ROM - Felix, Professor, Poindexter - Film Roman
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS EXHIBIT - Dudley Doo-Right - Warren Peters
Live Appearances
COMEDY CLUBS, LIVE CONCERTSComedy Stores of Hollywood, Las Vegas, La Jolla, & Universal City, Altantis Hotel in Atlantic City (Jeff Kutash's "Superstars & Stripes") Also regular at Ice House, Laff Stop, Igby’s, Coconuts, Laugh Factory, and Los Angeles area comedy clubs. Toured with World Champion gymnast, Kurt Thomas's "Gymnastics America" as MC/Host.
Education
- Electronics (A.S.) - Los Angeles Valley CollegeLos Angeles Valley CollegeLos Angeles Valley College is a community college located in the Valley Glen district of Los Angeles, California in the east-central San Fernando Valley. The school is a part of the Los Angeles Community College District....
- Cinema & Television Arts - Multimedia Production (B.A.) - California State University Northridge
- Currently a Candidate for Master of Fine Arts, Television/Film/Theatre (M.F.A.) - California State University Los Angeles