Casey Kasem

Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27 1932, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American radio personality and voice actor of Druze Lebanese extraction. He has been married to actress/singer Jean Kasem since 1980 and they have one child together. He had three children with his first wife, Linda Myers Kasem (to whom he was married from 1969 to 1979). Their son, Mike Kasem, is also a voice-over actor. Their daughter is television host Kerri Kasem.

Television

Kasem is a prominent voice-over actor, most notably the voice of Shaggy in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo cartoons from 1969 until 1991. He has done work for many other animated series, such as the voice of Robin in the original Batman animated series (1968) and the later SuperFriends series, the drummer Groove from The Cattanooga Cats (1969), Alexander Cabot III from Josie and the Pussycats (1970, 1972), and television specials such as Rankin-Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail.

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Shaggy - Hanna-Barbera - Scooby-Doo - Robin - Batman - 1968 - SuperFriends - Drummer - The Cattanooga Cats - 1969 - Alexander Cabot III - Josie and the Pussycats - 1970 - 1972 - Rankin-Bass - Here Comes Peter Cottontail

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In the 1980s he was a regular voice-actor on The Transformers, before quitting the show in its third season after a dispute regarding the portrayal of Arab characters. He also walked out on his role as Shaggy in 1995, when he was asked to voice Shaggy in a Burger King commercial. Kasem – a vegetarian – felt that that was inappropriate for the character, whom he wished also to be a vegetarian. He returned to the character in 2002, after Hanna-Barbera agreed to portray Shaggy as a strict vegetarian, notwithstanding the fact the Shaggy has been seen by countless viewers gorging himself on any food in sight, including plenty of meat, since 1969.

Related Topics:
1980s - The Transformers - 2002 - 1969

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