Ron Gans

Nascimento : 1931-09-08, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Morte : 2010-06-29

História

While many people may not know Ron Gans' face, any self-respecting fan of 70s drive-in exploitation cinema should be highly familiar with his extremely distinctive and unmistakable deep'n'dulcet velvet smooth golden throat voice. Gans lent his deliciously plummy tones to numerous theatrical trailers for Roger Corman's New World Pictures which include "The Student Nurses," "The Big Doll House," "Bury Me An Angel," "Night Call Nurses," "The Big Bird Cage," "The Arena," "Caged Heat," and "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase." Gans also did the trailers for "Terminal Island" and "The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane." Moreover, Gans' booming sonorous voice can be heard on the radio spots for John Carpenter's "Halloween" and Lucio Fulci's "Zombie." Gans hilariously sent up his trailer work in the sidesplitting "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" sketch in the riotous anthology comedy "The Kentucky Fried Movie." He was likewise amusing as the pompous voice of a cooking instructor in the uproariously raunchy "Revenge of the Cheerleaders." Gans narrated the documentaries "The Raw Ones," "Sexual Liberty Now," and "Go for It." On television Gans was the voices for both Kanga and Roo on the Walt Disney Channel children's show "Welcome to Pooh Corner" and the voice of Drag Strip on the "Transformers" cartoon program. He was especially effective as the metallic voice of Crimebuster in the charming sci-fi comedy "Heartbeeps" and the sinister voice of Armus on the "Skin of Evil" episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Among his occasional on-screen appearances are a job interviewer in "Group Marriage," a would-be rapist in the sordid "Runaway, Runaway," and a television newscaster in "Carnal Madness."

Filmes

Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure
Eeyore (voice)
Pooh thinks that Christopher Robin has forgotten his lunch and he, Piglet, Rabbit, Tigger, Owl, and Eeyore hop on a school bus to give it to him at school. While on the school bus, they demonstrate and discuss the rules and safety of riding the bus.
Too Smart for Strangers
Eeyore (voice)
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl and the rest of the gang discuss all the dangers of strangers and how you should handle yourself should you ever come face to face with a stranger.
Heartbeeps
Crimebuster Deluxe (voice)
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
Noite Infernal
Driver (as Ronald Gans)
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Black Silk Stockings
Narrator (voice)
Five stories connected by the actresses all wearing black silk stockings. In the first, an art seller and a real estate agent work on the sale of a painting. Next, Alex has his stenographer take some dictation...and other things. A couple enjoys some alone time, while a professor teaches a group of students. Finally, a pair of models accept an assignment from a photographer.
Deathsport
Narrator (voice)
1000 years into the future, after the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city-states. Notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz is forced to fight in the DeathSport, dueling on futuristic motorcycle "Death Machines". With the help of renegade vixen Deneer, Kaz must face his past and fight to save himself and his people.
Go for It
Narrator
Extreme sports meets midnight movie with a film that showcases wild surfing and skateboarding madness.
Coffy: Em Busca da Vingança
Stranger
Após perder a irmã para as drogas, a enfermeira Coffy decide fazer justiça com as próprias mãos. Ela então se passa por prostituta para se aproximar do mundo do crime e eliminar os chefes do tráfico.
Group Marriage
Interviewer
Chris is not getting along with boyfriend Sandor and has an affair with parole officer Dennis. Dennis invites the couple to dinner with his ex-girlfriend Jan. At a picnic on the beach, Jan meets lifeguard Phil, who later sleeps with Chris and moves in with the other five. Phil brings in a person, lawyer Elaine. The "group marriage" of the six of them attracts media attention, which brings trouble and prejudice.
Bonnie's Kids
Radio Newscaster (voice)
Sisters Myra and Ellie have finally had enough of their miserable, dead-end lives. When their stepfather Charley (the titular "Bonnie" being long dead) tried to rape Myra, Ellie ventilates him with a shotgun, and the pair run off to their wealthy uncle's mansion in El Paso. From that point on, the two undergo a transformation in their personalities, and start to enjoy living their lives on the wild side.
O Monstro de Duas Cabeças
Reporter in Tan Coat (uncredited)
Um dos subprodutos do movimento Blaxploitation, O Monstro de Duas Cabeças conta a bizarra história de um velho milionário e racista (vivido por Ray Milland) que, devido a uma grave doença, tem sua cabeça transplantada para o corpo de um negro (Rosey Grier, primo da estrela negra Pam Grier, de Jackie Brown). O detalhe é que o negro está vivo e ambas as cabeças precisam conviver com o mesmo corpo. A partir daí, o que se vê na tela é um desfile de situações absurdas, que entrou para a história do cinema como um dos mais divertidos libelos contra o racismo.
Sexual Liberty Now
Narrator (voice)
A look at porn in the USA following the publication of the Government's 1967 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
Runaway, Runaway
The Attacker
An unhappy teenager hits the road to meet up with a man in California whom she barely knows. Along the way the naive teen stumbles around trying to do her best to get by, but eventually falls prey to some unseemly characters willing to take advantage of her.
The Student Nurses
Psychiatrist
Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs.
Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Narrator (voice)
Starting as a documentary on the sexually liberated culture of late-Sixties Denmark, Sexual Freedom in Denmark winds up incorporating major elements of the marriage manual form and even manages to squeeze in a montage of beaver loops and erotic art. All narrated with earnest pronouncements concerning the social and psychological benefits of sexual liberation, the movie, is a kind of mondo film dotted with occasional glimpses of actual sex.
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Ken
Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe.
Arrojo nas Pistas
Promising young racing car driver Joe Joe Quillico leaves the stock car racing scene in the United States in order to pursue Grand Prix racing in Europe. After limited success he manages to win the Spanish Grand Prix. His love life however, is much less successful and his winning on the track only serves to alienate the woman he loves - with unhappy consequences.
O Massacre de Chicago
Chapman (uncredited)
Chicago, 1920. Al Capone (Jason Robards) enfim consegue se estabelecer como um gângster de renome ao organizar uma emboscada contra peças chave da gangue de "Bugs" Moran (Ralph Meeker), um gângster rival. Em pleno dia dos namorados, integrantes da gangue de Capone se vestiram de policiais e encurralaram os rivais, matando-os sem pensar duas vezes. Este evento foi crucial para a ascensão de Capone dentro do crime organizado.
The Raw Ones
Narrator (voice)
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
Battle of Blood Island
Ken
Two American GIs are the only survivors of a unit wiped out in a battle with Japanese troops on an isolated island. The two, who don't like each other, find try to put aside their differences in order to evade the Japanese and survive.
Chá e Simpatia
Dick
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
Hidden Guns
Burt Miller
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Appointment in Honduras
Mexican Lieutenant (uncredited)
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards