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JONES, Rick

PERSONAL

Born in Canada.

Addresses: Agent Mensour Agency, 61A York Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5T2, Canada.

Career: Actor, writer. Sound Venture Productions, founder; Skit Row (a comedy act), member.

Member: Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, Equity.

Awards, Honors: Gemini Award, best writing in a comedy or variety program or series, 1988, for The Raccoons; Gemini Award nomination (with others), best performance in a preschool program or series, 2003, for The Toy Castle.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

Voice of Grandma Tadpole, Around the World in 80 Days (animated), 1972.

Voice, Stop the Smoggies! (animated), 1990.

The Littl' Bits (animated), Nickelodeon, 1991.

Voices of Guido Anchovy and Bad Bird, Samurai Pizza Cats (animated; also known as Kyatto ninden teyandee ), syndicated, 1991.

Ozzy and Slink, The Little Flying Bears, 1991.

Voices of Yorky, Rusty, and Tooly, Big Garage (animated), The Learning Channel, 1995.

VoiceofSteel, Night Hood (animated), 1996.

Voice of Zotornick, Princess Sissi (animated), Fox Kids, 1997.

Voice of No Tail No Good, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (animated), YTV, 1997.

Voice of Kling, Pippi Longstocking (animated), HBO, 1998.

Voice of Gregory Woodpecker, Birdz (animated), CBS, 1998.

Voices of Inka Dinka Doo and Klump, Donkey Kong Country (animated), 1998.

Hozer and Squirt, Hoze Houndz, 1999.

Voice of Cyril Barker, Ripley's Believe It or Not, 1999.

Voice of Erebus, Toad Patrol, 1999.

Narrator, The Toy Castle (also known as Le chateau magique ), PBS, 2000.

Voice of FuFu, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (animated), PBS, 2001.

Also appeared as Whip, Tripping the Rift.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Sergeant Decker, Murder C.O.D., NBC, 1990.

Cop #1, The Marla Hanson Story (also known as Face Value ), NBC, 1991.

Hacker, Deadly Game, USA Network, 1991.

Security guard, Body Language, USA Network, 1992.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Thug, "The Little Wonders," The Avengers, ITV, 1964.

John Garton, "The Death Game," The Saint, ITV, 1967.

Voice of Sidekick/delivery ape, "Double Play!," The Raccoons (animated), CBC, syndicated, and The Disney Channel, 1987.

Voice of Ted, "Charley & Mimmo," It's Itsy Bitsy Time (animated), Fox Family Channel, 1999.

Also appeared as voice of Ralph, Rotten Ralph (animated), Fox Family Channel; voice of Barnaby, Legend of the North Wind (animated); voice of Clyde, C.L.Y.D.E. (animated); voice of Flap, Kitty Cats (animated); Voice of Kaput, Kaput & Zosky (animated); voice of Mr. Bliple, Anna Banana (animated); voice of Rasmo, Ratz (animated); voice, Papa Beaver's Story Time (animated); voice, Dennis the Menace (animated); voice, A Bunch of Munsch (animated).

Television Appearances; Specials:

Voice, The Railway Dragon (animated), 1988.

Voice, Bluetoes, the Christmas Elf (animated), 1988.

Voices of Patty and guard, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (animated), 1992.

Voice, David Copperfield (animated; also known as Charles Dickens' David Copperfield ), NBC, 1993.

Voice of Ralph, Rotten Ralph (animated), The Disney Channel, 1996.

Television Work; Series:

Additional voices, The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (animated), syndicated, 1987.

Additional voices, Animal Crackers (animated), Teletoon, 1997.

Film Appearances:

Beach boy, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, 1965.

Whose Child Am I?, 1974.

Keisha's father, Kindergarten Cop, 1990.

FBI agent #2, Hear No Evil (also known as Danger Sign ), 1993.

Villager, On Deadly Ground, 1994.

Security guard, Foxfire, Samuel Goldwyn, 1996.

Voices of Czar Nicholas, revolutionary soldier, servant, and ticket agent, Anastasia (animated), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1997.

The Force of Water (animated; also known as La force de l'eau ), NFBC, 1998.

Voice of Zeek, Heavy Metal 2000 (animated; also known as Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2 ), Lions Gate Films, 2000.

Lion of Oz (animated; also known as Le lion d'Oz and Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage ), Sunbow, 2000.

Explosives (also known as Les explosifs ), National Film Board of Canada, 2001.

WRITINGS

Television Episodes:

(With others) You Can't Do That on Television, 19821984, CTV and Nickelodeon.

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