Ed Gilbert | |
---|---|
Born | Edmund Francis Giesbert June 29, 1931 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Died | May 8, 1999 | (aged 67)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1963–1999 |
Known for | Baloo in TaleSpin |
Ed Gilbert (born Edmund Francis Giesbert, June 29, 1931 – May 8, 1999) was an American actor, with extensive credits in both live-action roles and voice work in animation, although he was better known for the latter. He is also credited, under his birth name, with research in entomology and the discovery of new beetle species. He was known for voicing Baloo in TaleSpin.
YouTube Encyclopedic
-
1/3Views:4 868 9342 324 6201 220 968
-
The wacky history of cell theory - Lauren Royal-Woods
-
The life cycle of a t-shirt - Angel Chang
-
Why is being scared so fun? - Margee Kerr
Transcription
(Music) One of the great things about science is that when scientists make a discovery, it's not always in a prescribed manner, as in, only in a laboratory under strict settings, with white lab coats and all sorts of neat science gizmos that go, "Beep!" In reality, the events and people involved in some of the major scientific discoveries are as weird and varied as they get. My case in point: The Weird History of the Cell Theory. There are three parts to the cell theory. One: All organisms are composed of one or more cells. Two: The cell is the basic unit of structure and organization in organisms. And three: All cells come from preexisting cells. To be honest, this all sounds incredibly boring until you dig a little deeper into how the world of microscopic organisms and this theory came to be. It all started in the early 1600s, in the Netherlands, where a spectacle maker name Zacharias Jansen is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item that every naturalist or scientist at the time wanted to play with, making it much like the iPad of its day. One such person was a fellow Dutchman by the name of Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who heard about these microscope doohickies, and instead of going out and buying one, he decided to make his own. And it was a strange little contraption indeed, as it looked more like a tiny paddle the size of a sunglass lens. If he had stuck two together, it probably would have made a wicked set of sunglasses ... that you couldn't see much out of. Any-who, once Leeuwenhoek had his microscope ready, he went to town, looking at anything and everything he could with them, including the gunk on his teeth. Yes, you heard right. He actually discovered bacteria by looking at dental scrapings, which, when you keep in mind that people didn't brush their teeth much, if at all, back then, he must have had a lovely bunch of bacteria to look at. When he wrote about his discovery, he didn't call them bacteria, as we know them today. But he called them animalcules, because they looked like little animals to him. While Leeuwenhoek was staring at his teeth gunk, he was also sending letters to a scientific colleague in England, by the name of Robert Hooke. Hooke was a guy who really loved all aspects of science, so he dabbled in a little bit of everything, including physics, chemistry and biology. Thus it is Hooke who we can thank for the term "the cell," as he was looking at a piece of cork under his microscope, and the little chambers he saw reminded him of cells, or the rooms monks slept in in their monasteries. Think college dorm rooms, but without the TV's, computers and really annoying roommates. Hooke was something of an under-appreciated scientist of his day, something he brought upon himself, as he made the mistake of locking horns with one of the most famous scientists ever, Sir Isaac Newton. Remember when I said Hooke dabbled in many different fields? Well, after Newton published a groundbreaking book on how planets move due to gravity, Hooke made the claim that Newton had been inspired by Hooke's work in physics. Newton, to say the least, did not like that, which sparked a tense relationship between the two that lasted even after Hooke died, as quite a bit of Hooke's research, as well as his only portrait, was "misplaced," due to Newton. Much of it was rediscovered, thankfully, after Newton's time, but not his portrait, as sadly no one knows what Robert Hooke looked like. Fast-forward to the 1800s, where two German scientists discovered something that today we might find rather obvious, but helped tie together what we now know as the cell theory. The first scientist was Matthias Schleiden, a botanist who liked to study plants under a microscope. From his years of studying different plant species, it finally dawned on him that every single plant he had looked at were all made of cells. At the same time, on the other end of Germany, was Theodor Schwann, a scientist who not only studied slides of animal cells under the microscope, and got a special type of nerve cell named after him, but also invented rebreathers for firefighters and had a kickin' pair of sideburns. After studying animal cells for a while, he too came to the conclusion that all animals were made of cells. Immediately, he reached out via snail mail, as Twitter had yet to be invented, to other scientists working in the same field, met with Schleiden, who got back to him, and the two started working on the beginnings of the cell theory. A bone of contention arose between them as for the last part of the cell theory, that cells come from preexisting cells. Schleiden didn't exactly subscribe to that thought, as he swore cells came from free cell formation, where they just kind of spontaneously crystalized into existence. That's when another scientist, named Rudolph Virchow, stepped in with research showing that cells did come from other cells, research that was actually -- hmm, how to put it? -- borrowed without permission from a Jewish scientist by the name of Robert Remak, which led to two more feuding scientists. Thus, from teeth gunk to torquing off Newton, crystallization to Schwann cells, the cell theory came to be an important part of biology today. Some things we know about science today may seem boring, but how we came to know them is incredibly fascinating. So if something bores you, dig deeper. It's probably got a really weird story behind it somewhere.
Early life and career
Gilbert graduated from the University of Chicago and fought in the Korean War. During the 1960s, Gilbert appeared on television series such as The Gallant Men, Combat!, The Rogues, and Mannix. In 1966, he guest starred as Robert Cramer on four episodes of Ben Casey. He is well known as Fenton Hardy on the 1970s television series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries.
He provided the voices of Superion (originally voiced by Frank Welker), Thrust and Blitzwing in the second and third seasons of The Transformers, Kissyfur's father Gus in Kissyfur, Thirty-Thirty, Sandstorm, Shaman and other voices in BraveStarr, Baloo in the Disney animated series TaleSpin and Jungle Cubs, General Hawk in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Puggsy and Daddy Starling in Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Mr. Smee in Peter Pan and the Pirates, Phasir in the Aladdin television series, The Mandarin in the first season of Iron Man: The Animated Series and Dormammu in Spider-Man. He voiced minor characters in Batman: The Animated Series; Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, and The New Batman Adventures. He also voiced the security guard Daryl in the computer game, Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!.
Entomology
Gilbert, under his birth name Edmund Giesbert, also pursued the study of Coleoptera and described numerous beetle species and genera, particularly in the family Cerambycidae.[1][2]
Death
Gilbert died on May 8, 1999, of lung cancer in his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was survived by his wife Virgini and his daughter Dorian. His interment was at Eternal Valley Memorial Park and Mortuary in Newhall, California.[3]
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1964 | 36 Hours | Captain Abbott | |
1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Priest | |
1973 | Howzer | Edward Carsell | |
1986 | The Transformers: The Movie | Blitzwing | Voice[4] |
1987 | G.I. Joe: The Movie | General Hawk | Voice[4] |
1988 | BraveStarr: The Movie | Thirty-Thirty, Shaman | Voice |
1988 | Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde | Voice, direct-to-video |
1990 | The Rescuers Down Under | Francois | Voice[4] |
1992 | Tom and Jerry: The Movie | Pugsy, Daddy Starling | Voice[4] |
1994 | The Pagemaster | George Merry | Voice[4] |
1996 | Father Frost | Robber Leader | |
1998 | Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island | Mr. Beeman | Voice, direct-to-video[4] |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1973-1976 | Police Story | Various roles | 4 episodes |
1976 | Wonder Woman | Warden | Episode: "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness von Gunther" |
1977 | The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Fenton Hardy | 28 episodes |
1984–1987 | The Transformers | Blitzwing, Thrust, Superion | Voice, 27 episodes |
1985–1986 | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero | General Hawk | Voice, 19 episodes |
1986 | Kissyfur | Gus | Voice, episode: "The Birds and the Bears " |
1989 | Asterix and the Big Fight | Bossa Nova, Fishstix | Voice, American dub |
TUGS | Warrior | Voice Only in test US dub | |
1990–1991 | TaleSpin | Baloo | Voice, main role |
Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates | Mr. Smee | Voice | |
1990–1993 | The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda | Additional voices | Voice, 33 episodes |
1993 | Batman: The Animated Series | Jack Haly | Voice, episode: "Robin's Reckoning" |
1993-1994 | SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron | Katscracth Gang Member, Enforcer Sargent, Enforcer Commando, Tiger Conklin | Voice, 4 episodes |
1993-1996 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Looten Plunder, Pillage | Voice, 12 episodes |
1994 | Animaniacs | Neptune | Voice, episode: "Mermaid Mindy"[4] |
Iron Man | Mandarin, Grey Gargoyle, Ultimo, Al Gore, Arnold Brock | Voice, 13 episodes[4] | |
1994-1995 | Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills | Emperor Gorganus | Voice, 40 episodes[4] |
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | Icki's Locker, Macho, Colombus | Voice, 2 episodes[4] | |
1994-1996 | Gargoyles | Bodhe, Captain of the Guard | Voice, 7 episodes |
The Tick | El Seed | Voice, 3 episodes[4] | |
1995 | The New Adventures of Peter Rabbit | Tommy Brock | Voice |
Black Scorpion | Breathtaker | Voice, television film | |
1995-1996 | Freakazoid! | Professor Heiney, Unag | Voice, 3 episodes[4] |
1996 | The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest | Various roles | Voice, 4 episodes[4] |
Dumb and Dumber | Bender, Clem | Voice, episode: "Brain, Brain, Go Away"[4] | |
Dexter's Laboratory | Hunter, Space Hick | Voice, episode: "Dial M for Monkey: Huntor"[4] | |
Road Rovers | Judge Fore | Voice, episode: "The Dog Who Knew Too Much"[4] | |
1996-1997 | Spider-Man | Dormammu, Phillip Watson | Voice, 3 episodes[4] |
1997 | Superman: The Animated Series | University Guard | Voice, episode: "The Hand of Fate"[4] |
The New Batman Adventures | Photographer | Voice, episode: "Chemistry"[4] | |
1997-1998 | The New Adventures of Zorro | Additional voices | Voice, 26 episodes |
1998 | I Am Weasel | Announcer, Man #2, Man #8 | Voice, episode: "I.R. Role Model"[4] |
1999 | The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries | Colonel Ambore | Voice, episode: "Son of Roswell That Ends Well"[4] |
Video games
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1993 | Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! | Art, Daryl | [4] |
1995 | Wanna Be a Dino Finder | Rock Hound | [4] |
1995 | Shannara | Balinor | [4] |
References
- ^ "Ed Gilbert". TV.com. CBS Interactive.com. 8 May 2010. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ "Linsleychroma monnei Giesbert, 1998". Base de données Titan sur les Cerambycidés ou Longicornes (in French). Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
- ^ "Edmund Gilbert". 20 May 1999.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Ed Gilbert (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved April 5, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
External links
- SoCalSpinner.com - Ed Gilbert Tribute Page at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 July 2011)
- Ed Gilbert at IMDb