Ron Gans

Ron Gans

Born: September 8, 1931
Died: June 29, 2010
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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."

Movies for Ron Gans...

Title: X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men
Character: Juggernaut (voice)
Released: September 16, 1989
Type: TV
Pryde of the X-Men was a short-lived series about the X-Men, with the main character being Kitty Pryde (whose alias is Shadow Cat, though she never becomes Shadow Cat in the series), which is why the series is titled Pryde of the X-Men. The show was produced by Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, who made a pilot for NBC. The pilot aired, but for unknown reasons, it was never turned into a full-blown series. Despite it not becoming a full series, the pilot has aired in syndication, and was later released on video.
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Title: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Armus (voice)
Released: September 28, 1987
Type: TV
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.
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Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure
Title: Pooh's Great School Bus Adventure
Character: Eeyore (voice)
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling is an American animated television series that originally aired on CBS Saturday mornings from September 14, 1985 to December 6, 1986, with reruns airing until June 27, 1987.
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Too Smart for Strangers
Title: Too Smart for Strangers
Character: Eeyore (voice)
Released: June 19, 1985
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Dumbo's Circus
Released: May 6, 1985
Type: TV
Dumbo's Circus was a live-action/puppet television series that aired on Disney Channel, featuring the character of Dumbo from the original film. The series was in production for three and a half seasons, and reruns continued to air until February 28, 1997. Many of the show's cast went on to star in the popular Christian radio series, Adventures in Odyssey.
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Heartbeeps
Title: Heartbeeps
Character: Crimebuster Deluxe (voice)
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.
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Hell Night
Title: Hell Night
Character: Driver (as Ronald Gans)
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
As an initiation rite into Alpha Sigma Rho fraternity, four pledges must spend a night in Garth Manor, twelve years to the day after the previous resident murdered his entire family.
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Black Silk Stockings
Title: Black Silk Stockings
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 7, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Deathsport
Title: Deathsport
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: April 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Quincy, M.E.
Released: October 3, 1976
Type: TV
Quincy, M.E. is an American television series from Universal Studios pert in several of the later episodes.
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Go for It
Title: Go for It
Character: Narrator
Released: July 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Extreme sports meets midnight movie with a film that showcases wild surfing and skateboarding madness.
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Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Title: Revenge of the Cheerleaders
Character: Cooking Lesson (voice)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot sequel to The Cheerleaders. Rainbeaux Smith (from the first film) is back ... and pregnant!
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Sex Freaks
Title: Sex Freaks
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Sex Freaks is a catalog of all things kinky - voyeurism, nymphomania, sadomasochism - with a few unusual novelties thrown in along the way (sex in a carwash, at a bullfight, underwater, in the snow). This unusual example of a Sex-Shockumentary posits that the Devil is responsible for our deviant ways!
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Coffy
Title: Coffy
Character: Stranger
Released: June 13, 1973
Type: Movie
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
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Group Marriage
Title: Group Marriage
Character: Interviewer
Released: March 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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Bonnie's Kids
Title: Bonnie's Kids
Character: Radio Newscaster (voice)
Released: February 8, 1973
Type: Movie
After killing their repulsive stepfather, emboldened sisters Myra and Ellie set out to become career criminals. While enjoying the freedom of being bad, the new lawbreakers stumble into a stash of mob money, which they’ll stop at nothing to keep.
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The Thing with Two Heads
Title: The Thing with Two Heads
Character: Reporter in Tan Coat (uncredited)
Released: July 19, 1972
Type: Movie
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
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Sexual Liberty Now
Title: Sexual Liberty Now
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 13, 1971
Type: Movie
A look at porn in the USA following the publication of the Government's 1967 Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography.
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Runaway, Runaway
Title: Runaway, Runaway
Character: The Attacker
Released: May 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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.
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The Student Nurses
Title: The Student Nurses
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: December 2, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Title: Sexual Freedom in Denmark
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Title: Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Character: Ken
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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The Wild Racers
Title: The Wild Racers
Released: March 27, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Character: Chapman (uncredited)
Released: June 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
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The Raw Ones
Title: The Raw Ones
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.
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Title: Lost in Space
Character: Frog Alien (voice)
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson
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Title: Lost in Space
Character: Creature (voice)
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson
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Title: Lost in Space
Character: Alien Leader
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Title: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Battle of Blood Island
Title: Battle of Blood Island
Character: Ken
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Joe Velvet
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Title: Perry Mason
Character: Male Nurse
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
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Operation Mad Ball
Title: Operation Mad Ball
Character: Tinneman (uncredited)
Released: August 17, 1957
Type: Movie
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.
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Tea and Sympathy
Title: Tea and Sympathy
Character: Dick
Released: September 27, 1956
Type: Movie
At a high school reunion, a young man recalls his boarding school days, when the only person who seemed to sympathize with him was his housemaster's wife.
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Hidden Guns
Title: Hidden Guns
Character: Burt Miller
Released: January 30, 1956
Type: Movie
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.
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Day is Done
Title: Day is Done
Character: 3rd Soldier
Released: October 12, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 1951 rout of the American army in Korea, a battle-hardened sergeant tries to reinvigorate his men with a bugle picked up by the side of the road.
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Appointment in Honduras
Title: Appointment in Honduras
Character: Mexican Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
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