David Kaye

David Kaye (born David V. Hope on October 14, 1964) is a Canadian voice actor. Some of his more popular roles include Professor Xavier and Apocalypse in X-Men: Evolution, Khyber and several Omnitrix aliens in Ben 10: Omniverse (and later Grandpa Max in the reboot), Clank in the Ratchet & Clank franchise, the second voice of Vandal Savage in Young Justice, Mysterio in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Superman and Hawkman in DC Super Friends, Captain America and Nick Fury in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 and he's well known within the G.I. Joe franchise, having voiced General Hawk in both the final season of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and in Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles, and Patrick O'Hara (father to Scarlett) in G.I. Joe: Renegades.

In the world of dubbing, Kaye has played Treize Khushrenada in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Sesshomaru in InuYasha and Recoome in the Ocean Group dub of Dragon Ball Z. He is also the announcer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and voiced all those commercials for Enzyte featuring the eternally-creepily-smiling "Bob".

Kaye originally began his voice acting career as a member of the Canadian voice acting union, doing voice over work out of Vancouver. In 2007, he moved to the US, joining the American voice acting union in LA and now does voice over work exclusively in the States.

Transformers: Prime

 * Hardshell
 * Vehicon ("Hurt")

Transformers: Robots in Disguise

 * Slashmark
 * Hammerstrike
 * Race Announcer ("Disordered Personalities")

Trivia

 * David Kaye has appeared in several previous Transformers series, playing the role of Predacon Megatron in Beast Wars, Megatron/Galvatron in the Unicron trilogy, and Optimus Prime in Transformers Animated.