Ron Gans

Actor

September 8, 1931 (78 years)

† June 29, 2010

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

7.7

Perry Mason

Joe Velvet

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.

8.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Armus (voice)

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.

7.5

Quincy, M.E.

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

7.2

Lost in Space

Frog Alien (voice)

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

7.7

The Real Ghostbusters

Captain Koenig (voice)

The continuing adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer.

6.3

Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling

(voice)

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.

5.8

Dumbo's Circus

Q.T. (voice)

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.

6.6

Coffy

Stranger

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.

4.8

Not of This Earth

Radio Movie Spot Announcer (Voice)

An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.

5.5

Hell Night

Driver (as Ronald Gans)

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.

5.0

The Student Nurses

Psychiatrist

Four female college students in Los Angeles, who live together and have nursing internships at the same hospital, have their lives complicated by love, sex, drugs and revolution.

6.0

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Wedding Reception Guest (uncredited)

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.

5.9

X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men

Juggernaut (voice)

Pilot for unproduced X-Men series for NBC, focusing on the matter-phasing Shadow Cat, alias Kitty Pryde. Magneto and the Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists plan to divert the Scorpio comet to Earth, hoping to create a new ice age for humanity and the era of mutant supremacy. It's up to the X-Men, and new recruit Kitty, to follow the magentic menace to his spacebound Asteroid M and foil his plan.

7.0

Tea and Sympathy

Dick

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

6.3

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Chapman (uncredited)

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.

4.5

Heartbeeps

Crimebuster Deluxe (voice)

Two domestic robots fall in love and run off together.

4.4

Night Call Nurses

Radio newscaster (voice) (uncredited)

The sweet and perky Barbara, the sunny Janis, and the responsible Sandra are a trio of young and attractive nurses who work in the psych ward at a hospital. The threesome really have their hands full dealing with nutty patients, creepy stalkers, and black revolutionaries

3.9

The Wild Racers

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.

4.0

Deathsport

Narrator (voice)

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.

5.4

The Gay Deceivers

Freddie

Two men try to avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they must act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.