Keith Scott
Australian Voice Actor, Comedian, Impressionist and Animation Historian
When it comes to entrusting the character voices for many Disney and Warner Bros. characters, they both turned to Keith Scott.
Australia’s most prolific voice over and character voice artist Keith is the master mimic. He has extensive local and international experience as an MC, product presenter and comedian. The man of a 1000 voices entertains and enthrals his audiences.
Keith Scott is the nation’s leading voice impressionist – heard in thousands of radio and TV voice-over commercials over the last 15 years and seen on many TV variety shows from “Hey Hey it’s Saturday” to Ray Martin’s “Midday Show” to Royal Variety Gala for the Commonwealth Games. Keith Scott has over 500 distinct and distinguishable voices in his repertoire, ranging from old movie stars to politicians to current media names. He has entertained countless audiences all over Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Los Angeles.
Keith has spent more than 30 years as Australia’s leading cartoon voice and impressionist. His career began in 1972 at the Sydney office of cartoon studio Hanna-Barbara Productions. Two years later he was established in voice work on TV and radio commercials, where he began to put his amazing range of voice imitations to work.
Stand up comedy always attracted Keith so throughout the next 10 years he made scores of appearances on TV variety shows including Hey Hey It’s Saturday and The Midday Show, with his stand up appearances at corporate functions proving highly popular with multitudes of companies.
As an impressionist, Keith has the widest range in his field, with over 500 distinct take-offs of everyone from old time movie stars to local and international politicians. When you add his original characters and accents, he can truly be called the Man of a Thousand Voices.
In 1984, Keith began working for Yoram Gross Film Studio, eventually supplying all the male character voices for the animated TV series Blinky Bill, Tabaluga and Skippy. He can also be heard daily, skewering the reputations of media and political figures on the national radio satire How Green Was My Cactus.
But it is as an expert “duplicator” of the great Hollywood cartoon voices that Keith has become internationally recognised. In 1990 he was made the official voice of Warner Brothers’ “Looney Tunes” characters for the Southern Hemisphere and has re-created Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and others in countless animated commercials and promotional activities.
In 1992, Universal Studios in Hollywood hired Keith as the authorised voice of Bullwinkle and Moose from the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon series. And in 1997 the Walt Disney Company flew Keith to Hollywood to be the narrator of their highly successful comedy feature film George of the Jungle.
Keith was the voice of Bullwinkle for the Rocky & Bullwinkle movie and worked “side by side” with Robert DeNiro, Whoopi Goldberg and Jason Alexander.
A sophisticated comic, Keith is also an exceptional MC and has done everything from a Royal Variety Gala for the Commonwealth Games to performing before Royalty, politicians including four Prime Ministers who sat spellbound hearing their own voices saying things they wouldn’t normally dare.