Happy 60th birthday Actor and Filmmaker, Jon Favreau! 🎂🎉 Jon Favreau celebrates his 60th birthday with a career that stretches far beyond acting, combining memorable screen roles with major work as a filmmaker, producer, and creative force behind blockbuster franchises. On screen, he is instantly recognizable as Happy Hogan across the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while longtime fans also know him as Mike Peters in Swingers, Pete Becker in Friends, Carl Casper in Chef, and Foggy Nelson in Daredevil. His voice work has taken him into the Star Wars universe as Pre Vizsla, Paz Vizsla, and Rio Durant, alongside animated roles in Elf, Open Season, and G-Force. Some of his most notable roles include: • Happy Hogan (Iron Man / Spider-Man / Marvel Cinematic Universe) • Carl Casper (Chef) • Pete Becker (Friends) • Pre Vizsla (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) • Mr. Narwhal (Elf) • Mike Peters (Swingers) • Foggy Nelson (Daredevil, 2003) • Hurley (G-Force) • Reilly (Open Season) • Paz Vizsla (The Mandalorian) • Rio Durant (Solo: A Star Wars Story) • Jerome the Bear (Zookeeper) • Danny Bateman (The Replacements) • D-Bob (Rudy) • Manny Riskin (The Wolf of Wall Street) Whether stepping in front of the camera, behind it, or into the recording booth, Favreau has built a career that connects comedy, superheroes, animation, and some of modern entertainment’s biggest franchises. Happy 60th Birthday, Jon Favreau! 🎉✨

The Voice Behind Kaiba, Brock and James Eric Stuart Marks His 59th Birthday! 🎙️✨ Stuart is one of the most recognizable voices from the early English-dub era of anime, best known for voicing Brock and James in Pokémon and Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh!. His career also includes Meta Knight in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Gourry Gabriev in Slayers, and a long list of characters across Ultimate Muscle, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and video games. Some of his most notable voice roles include: • Brock (Pokémon) • James (Pokémon) • Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise) • Meta Knight (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!) • Gourry Gabriev (Slayers Franchise) • Squirtle (Pokémon) • Weezing (Pokémon) • Bastion Misawa (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) • Marco (Shaman King) The Narrator (One Piece - 4Kids version) • Dr. Z (Dinosaur King) • Dik Dik Van Dik (Ultimate Muscle) • King Muscle (Ultimate Muscle) • Mac Metaphor (Ultimate Muscle) • Black Shadow (F-Zero: GP Legend) • Hi-Tech (G.I. Joe: Sigma 6) • Hamato Yoshi (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Murakami Gennosuke (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Quarry (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) • Yuri Hyuga (Shadow Hearts) • Lucian (Valkyrie Profile) His performances helped define an entire generation of English-dubbed anime, with characters like Brock, James, and Kaiba remaining instantly recognizable to fans decades later. Happy 59th birthday, Eric Stuart! His work across Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Slayers, Kirby, and beyond remains a lasting part of anime dubbing history. 🎂🎙️✨

We just lost a legendary animator today 😔 Some animators bring characters to life. Loyd Price helped shape entire worlds that generations grew up loving. 🕊️ Aardman animations has announced the passing of Loyd Price, a gifted animator, mentor and longtime creative force who dedicated more than 30 years to the studio. Over the decades, Price rose to become Aardman’s Head of Animation, helping guide both the performances audiences saw on screen and the generations of animators who followed him. His career stretched across some of stop-motion animation’s most beloved films, including: - Chicken Run — Supervising animator - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — Supervising animator - The Nightmare Before Christmas — Animator - Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave — Animator - Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions — Co-director and writer - Shaun the Sheep Movie — Animation supervisor - A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon — Animation supervisor - The Pirates! Band of Misfits — Animation supervisor - Early Man — Animation supervisor - Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death — Animator - Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — Animation supervisor On The Curse of the Were-Rabbit alone, Price led a team of 30 animators, helping bring Wallace, Gromit and an entire cast of characters to life frame by painstaking frame. His work as supervising animator also helped shape Chicken Run, while his career connected Aardman’s classic shorts to its modern feature-film era. Stop-motion is built one tiny movement at a time. Loyd Price spent decades making those movements feel alive, and teaching others how to do the same. The characters will keep moving. His influence will keep moving with them. Rest in paradise, Loyd Price. 🤍