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Biography: "Gary Chalk started acting when he was a kid, when he was about 8 years old. 'I think the very first thing I ever did, and it's going to sound corny, was the Shoemaker and the Elf, which was a school play. I found that I really liked it. I carried on as a performer, mainly as a singer. And then when I got into high school I got involved with a bunch of fellows who just absolutely loved writing and putting on their own shows. And I got into it with them and just carried on with that doing community theater, musicals and so on.'
'It wasn't until I started working as a stock trader for a while that I realized I really didn't fit in in the conventional business world. So I went back to college to be a teacher. But when I got there I went to the theater department which wanted to do a play, and it was a production of a play called Of Mice and Men and it was a good play. The acting was good, the production values were good and I wanted to be a part of that. So, I abandoned my english lit/anthropology teacher thing and I went down and tried out for the theater department and they let me in! God knows. And I've been working as a professional actor ever since.'
'Basically I've done everything you can think of. Singing telegrams, gorilla-grams, plays, improvisational theater, children's theater, movies, television, radio. Anything that had to do with performing, I did it. That's what I've been doing now for twenty five years.'
'The biggest difference between animation and live action is that, in live action you communicate with your body and facial expressions as well as your voice and your mannerisms and people can see it all on the screen. With animation you have only your voice to give your emotion, geography and your physical intent and whatnot. With limited animation, you have to fill it all in with your voice and they draw around that voice. So, in animation, everything has to be absolutely clear so the audience believes you as that character. Even though you're a cartoon you're still playing in a reality that holds true for that cartoon character, so that character has to remain true as well. So, to my mind it's the purest form of acting there is.
'Freddy vs. Jason was just a lark. I got to work with Ronny Yu, I got to work with him before in Warriors of Virtue. Ronnie Yu is the funniest guy to work with. I got to meet with 'Freddy' and 'Jason' and Kelly Rowland! The hard thing about that character was maintaining a straight face because every single scene I said 'We're gonna contain this thing.', 'Gotta get this thing contained.', 'We don't contain this thing...', 'I want this thing contained!'. Every single scene I had 'this thing contained' in a sentence somewhere, so I said to Ronnie 'You think I should drop...' but he said 'No, you have to play it serious, like you don't realize!' and I said 'Okay.' It turned out to be fun. Haven't been in a creature feature in a long time. It was great, lots of gore, lots of special effects.'
'I took my friend's daughter who was thirteen for her birthday to meet Kelly Rowland, because she was a huge Destiny's Child fan. So we go on set the day I happen to pick is when Kelly is in the flaming cabin being chased by Jason. She's covered in blood and flames are roaring and all kinds of effects were happening in the studio. So, she came in with me and was sort of looking around wide-eyed. She meets Kelly Rowland and Kelly says 'Come over here honey! Give us a hug!' And she just was like speechless, couldn't say anything so she took out her CD and just asked 'Could you sign this?!' and then they got to talk for an hour or so while she got gored up for the next gig. She was in seventh heaven, so that was quite an enjoyable experience.'" - Full Interview at Ben's World of Transformers
Filmography
Deck the Halls (2006)
Breakdown (2006)
Eight Below (2006)
Fishbowl (2005)
Fierce People (2005)
Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Malefico (2005)
Truth (2005)
In Search of Santa (2004)
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004)
Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004)
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
The Karate Dog (2004)
Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) (voice)
Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)
Smoke Screen (2002)
Trapped (2002)
Lone Hero (2002)
Deadly Little Secrets (2001)
Touched by a Killer (2001)
The Shipment (2001)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys (2001) (voice)
Camouflage (2001)
The Guilty (2000)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998) (voice)
Floating Away (1998)
Disturbing Behavior (1998)
The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1998) (voice)
Hardball (1997)
Warriors of Virtue (1997) (voice)
Intersection (1994)
David (1993)
Stephen King's It (1990)
American Boyfriends (1989)
The Fly II (1989)
The Accused (1988)
Fire with Fire (1986)
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
Certain Fury (1985)
The Grey Fox (1982)
Mr. Patman (1980)
Television
On Chestnut Street, Christmas (2006)
Under the Sycamore Tree (2006)
A Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
His and Her Christmas (2005)
Scary Godmother: The Revenge of Jimmy (2005) (voice)
The Dead Zone (2005)
Alien Racers (2005) (voice)
Supervolcano (2005)
Ladies Night (2005)
Dragon Booster (2004) (voice)
Try to Remember (2004)
Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (2003)
Scary Godmother Halloween Spooktakular (2003)
Transformers: Armada (2002) (voice)
Bang, Bang, You're Dead (2002)
Video Voyeur: The Susan Wilson Story (2002)
Sitting Ducks (2001) (voice)
Cold Squad (2000)
My Mother, the Spy (2000)
Dark Angel (2000)
Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000)
Shutterspeed (2000)
Quarantine (1999)
Y2K: The Movie (1999)
Weird-Ohs (1999)
Sabrina the Animated Series (1999-2002) (voice)
Pocket Dragon Adventures (1998) (voice)
Robocop: Alpha Commando (1998) (voice)
War Planets (1998) (voice)
My Husband's Secret Life (1998)
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998)
The Spree (1998)
Loyal Opposition: Terror in the White House (1998)
Silencing Mary (1998)
I Know What You Did (1998)
A Champion's Fight (1998)
Mummies Alive! (1997) (voice)
StreetFighter: The Animated Series (1997) (voice)
Five Desperate Hours (1997)
Extreme Dinosaurs (1997)
Into the Arms of Danger (1997)
ReBoot (1994-2001) (voice)
Hurricanes (1996) (voice)
Stand Against Fear (1996)
Mother Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story (1996)
Abduction of Innocence (1996)
Beast Wars: Transformers (1996-99) (voice)
Kidz in the Wood (1996)
Generation X (1996)
Final Fight (1995)
G.I. Joe Extreme (1995) (voice)
The Littlest Pet Shop (1995) (voice)
Mega Man (1995) (voice)
The Omen (1995)
Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie (1995)
Action Man (1995) (voice)
She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal (1995)
Circumstances Unknown (1995)
Not Our Son (1995)
Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
The Disappearance of Vonnie (1994)
Beyond Obsession (1994)
Betrayal of Trust (1994)
Exosquad (1993) (voice)
The Odd Couple: Together Again (1993)
The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993-99) (voice)
Double Dragon (1993) (voice)
The Sea Wolf (1993)
Without a Kiss Goodbye (1993)
Woman on the Ledge (1993)
Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
The Amy Fisher Story (1993)
Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars (1992) (voice)
Fatal Memories (1992)
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992) (voice)
Conan: The Adventurer (1992) (voice)
The Comrades of Summer (1992)
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
Blackmail (1991)
I Still Dream of Jeannie (1991)
Captain N and the New Super Mario World (1991) (voice)
G.I. Joe (1990) (voice)
The New Adventures of He-Man (1990-2002) (voice)
Dragon Quest (1989) (voice)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
Captain N: The Game Master (1989-90) (voice)
Davy Crockett: Guardian Spirit (1989)
Higher Ground (1988)
The Red Spider (1988)
Wiseguy (1987)
Sworn to Silence (1987)
Deadly Deception (1987)
A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
Spot Marks the X (1986)
Stranger in My Bed (1986)
Dragon Ball: The Legend of Shenron (1986) (voice)
Into Thin Air (1985)
The Legend of Hiawatha (1983) (voice)
Television Guest Appearances
Eureka (2006)
The Evidence (2006)
Transformers: Cybertron (2006) (voice)
Alice, I Think (2006)
Class of the Titans (2006)
Touching Evil (2004)
Tarzan (2003)
Stargate SG-1 (2002-06)
Breaking News (2002)
The Dead Zone (2002)
¡Mucha Lucha! (2002) (voice)
The Outer Limits (1995, 2024)
Seven Days (2000)
Cold Squad (1999-2005)
Viper (1999)
Dead Man's Gun (1998,1999)
First Wave (1998)
Millennium (1997)
Two (1997)
The Sentinel (1996, 1999)
Poltergeist: The Legacy (1996)
Sliders (1996)
Hawkeye (1995)
The Commish (1993, 1995)
M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994, 1995)
Highlander (1992)
Neon Rider (1990, 1991, 1992)
MacGyver (1988, 1989, 1990)
Booker (1990)
Mom P.I. (1990)
Wiseguy (1987, 1988)
Airwolf (1987)
The Hitchhiker (1986)
Where Is He Now?: Gary Chalk continues to be active in voice acting as well as making film and television guest appearances. His most recent 2024 holiday movies were Deck the Halls and On Chestnut Street, Christmas.
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