Erwin Saul Hamburger, known professionally as Earl Hammond, was an American actor who appeared in several films and television series.
11 Facts About Earl Hammond
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Earl Hammond was best known for voicing Mumm-Ra and Jaga in ThunderCats and Mon*Star in SilverHawks.
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Earl Hammond began acting in radio at the age of 7, and continued working in that venue throughout his life.
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In 1938, after graduating from Bennet High School in Buffalo, New York, Hammond began acting in Fred and Ethel Dampier's radio skits on WGR, one of the city's major radio stations.
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Earl Hammond moved on to California, studied acting at Los Angeles City College, and graduated in 1941 with future stars Donna Reed and Alexis Smith among his classmates.
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Earl Hammond was drafted into the US Army for World War II.
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Earl Hammond acted on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, appearing in many episodes episodes, including The Red Badge of Courage, The Man Without a Country, Three Tales of Hans Anderson and They Called Him Slim.
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Earl Hammond was perhaps best remembered for providing the voices of Mumm-Ra, Jaga, and other characters on the 1980s animated TV series ThunderCats, and for being the voice of villain Mon*Star on the 1980s animated TV series Silverhawks.
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Earl Hammond was the voice of the Transformers villain Megatron in a series of children's read-along books.
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In 1994, Earl Hammond was selected from among several hundred actors who auditioned to be the voice of Pope John Paul II on the audiotape version of the Random House book Crossing the Threshold of Hope.
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Earl Hammond married sometime between 1950 and 1980, and had a son and a daughter, both still living at the time of his death by heart failure on May 19,2002, in New York City.