John Galt: National Actor and Voice-Over Talent, Producer, and Writer

His porfolio includes everything from “The Dirt Bike Kid”, and “Jay Jay the Little Jet”, to “Forrest Gump”, and “JFK”. John Galt has thousands of commercials and hundreds of films to his credit. Don’t miss this local treasure. He has over 30 years in the business!

Look him up at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0303344/

(from the GUILD website)

John Galt, in a communication to J Schuh, gives a preview of his upcoming talk to the joint Guild/A Bunch of Short Guys memberships on Saturday, January 20th. In John’s words:

It seems I’ve always been a supporting actor in some way all my life. I’ve done over 25 Dinner Theatre and Stock productions, including the American Tour of “No Sex Please we’re British ” with Maureen O’Sullivan, who did it in London. I also toured with Bob Casper and later with June Lockhart in the same show. I did “The Moon is Blue” with Don Ameche. I did “The Fantastiks” with John Gary and Michael Conrad. I did 76 weeks on the road with Mickey Rooney in “Three Goats and a Blanket” It was that tour that convinced me to focus on other show biz jobs.

I did 36 Movies, most as an actor, some as a voice. They ranged from Independents to pretty big, but all were interesting. The two that won Academy Awards I was a voice, not on camera. “JFK” and “Forest Gump” I was the voice of L.B.J. In “The Dirt Bike Kid” with Peter Billingsley, I was Police Chief “Galt”. I managed to work with some big stars and some of them I liked very much.

I’ve done thousands of commercials and Industrials here and Los Angeles. My agent out there was Rita Venari of Sutton, Barth and Venari, I did “Yellow Bags”, “Lincoln Mercury”, “Shasta Cola with Fructose”, and was the “Nestle Strawberry Quick Rabbit” who only giggled. I did a lot of stuff out there and can’t remember the rest. Back here I did all the Autozone spots done in the 90’s. and 70 Movie trailers a year for Blockbuster, DeJ, & Asylum. They were mostly made for DVD films.

I did cartoons. Hanna-Barbera?, Warner Bros Bugs Bunny show, and so forth, out there….and occasionally out here. I did computer games, “Shadow Warrior” for 3d realm I was Lo Wang and some bad guys, “Dominion” for Ion Storm, I was the Admiral and a Bug General. “Die Katana” I was Ebiharra and some bad guys. “Urban Chaos” I was the cab driver, “Duese X” I was Tracer Tong, Jock the Helo pilot, an Illuminati, and a boss. For Terminal Reality, “Nocturne” I did the Mayor, The Demon Morlock, Scat Davis and a pile of bad guys. For “Prey” I did the Grandfather spirt guide. The lead was Michael Greyeyes, a cree Indian, the female was a Cherokee beauty and I was only like the others when I opened my mouth and Chief Dan George came out.

I found that my voice had fewer limitations than my appearance so now I am strictly a voice talent. I’ll do a film if asked, I did “Miracle Dogs two” with Janine Turner and Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren and David Keith that was shot in Grapevine last year. I got to play with cute dogs and kids. I will be happy to talk to young creatives that want to do animation. I can explain how the voice helps the picture because they work together. I look forward to it.