
As a child, Hank Garrett was glued to the radio and would imitate the voices he heard. His favorite show was “Can You Top This?” He would listen to the resident dialectician and master storyteller named Peter Donald to write down all the jokes he heard in a little book. He continued to regale family and friends with his budding comedy act. At the age of sixteen, he began a career working as a comedian in resort hotels. His first television acting job of major importance was Patrolman Ed Nicholsonon “Car 54, Where Are You?” He also provided a number of trick voices and dialects for radio commercials. Then he auditioned and got the job doing the voices for Fluffy and Fast Eddie on the animated “Here Comes Garfield” show. Soon after, Hank had the honor of providing the voice for the new G.I. Joe Communications Specialist: Dial-Tone on the “G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero” animated series. This popular character appeared in the “G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise" mini-series as well as more than twenty-four of the syndicated episodes. He also reprised his voice acting role for Dial-Tone on the animated "G.I. Joe: The Movie". Convention Attendees can meet the man behind-the-voice for autographs and perhaps even get their 2011 Convention Exclusive Dial-Tone signed!
Biography from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Credits and photos from TMDB.
The titles people know Hank from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Delivery Dispatcher
as Guard
as Hitman / Postman

as Police Chief
as Dr. Wayland
as Manny - The Bartender

as Foreman

as Lt. Hadcock
as Admiral in Washington
as Marty Penn · 1 episode

as Space Pilot
as Dave Ash
1 episode
as Ashwell · 2 episodes

as Vito
as Dial-Tone (voice)
as Detective Ed Hanley
as Frank Kolbert · 3 episodes

as Deputy Chief Jerome Bench · 13 episodes
as Bartender
as Oscar Bailey

as McCracken · 1 episode
as Conductor
as The Bookie · 1 episode
as James Brenner
as Henderson (uncredited)
as Ed Nicholson · 3 episodes
The people who keep turning up in Hank’s titles.









