
Arthur Napier Burghardt (born June 23, 1945) is an American stage, film and voice actor. Some of his better-known voice over roles include Destro and Stalker from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Turbo from Challenge of the GoBots, Venom from the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, Singe from the Dragon's Lair TV series and Borf from the Space Ace segments of Saturday Supercade.
On screen, Burghardt has played Dr. Jack Scott in One Life to Live, Principal Pussman in Bone Chillers and Laurant in Los Luchadores. Burghardt won an Emmy for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor" in 1976 for a televised summary of his one-man stage performance about Frederick Douglass.
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- Burghardt was name-dropped on the Seinfeld episode "The Pothole", in which Kramer adopts a stretch of the "Arthur Burghardt Expressway". It was explained in the DVD audio commentary for the episode that Burghardt had auditioned for the show several times, and while liked by the producers was not cast in those roles. In lieu of an appearance, Burghardt was name-dropped.