David Landon

PRO VOICE ACTOR DAVID LANDON (Non-Union)

Note: David is a “voice actor”, NOT a “voice-over”. He does, however, record voice-overs.

Specializing in VOICEOVERS for:

• Explainer Videos
• Corporate Videos
• Industrial Videos
• Medical and Healthcare Videos.

Recording and producing from his broadcast quality home studio

REMOTE SESSIONS available via:

• SOURCE CONNECT
• ISDN

Vocal Range: 40s – 60s
Vocal Sound: guy next door, warm and friendly, credible, authoritative

Character Voices: Various
Accents & Dialects: Southern U.S., Texan, New York, British/RP, Scottish

Coaching & Training:

Gloria Manon
Bob Allen
Janet Day
Jessica Stewart
Russ Fast


BIO

Dave got an early start as a "voice guy" and advertising "pitch man". According to his Mom, at the age of one and a half years old, David would stand on the roof of the family home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, clad in his birthday suit, and mimic the street vendors down below with their cries of "Mundo! Mundo!!" (the local newspaper), and "Yip! Yi-i-i-i-i-p!" (a fried plantain chip). Sales of El Mundo and Yips were brisk on that street, no doubt.

David broadened his skill set to include stage acting when his older sister cast him in the role of "the husband" for a two-person dramatic production performed in front of an audience comprised of Mom, Dad, and the next-door neighbors. This was a milestone in David's career. Although intentionally falling over backwards in the rocking chair was a slight deviation from the script, it led to the epiphany that, improvisation, when done with finesse, can result in stealing the show.

In his early school years, along with academic pursuits, Dave and his friends honed their performance skills, doing “mouth noise sound effects” and impersonations of the teacher. In high school David returned to performing in front of an audience by leading a first-place winning musical act in a school talent show (yes, Dave was "Terry" of "Terry and the Trouts") and taking a walk-on part in a stage play. He would eventually realize, however, that his real affinity is not the "limelight", but rather the art of using audio, visual, and other media to communicate or entertain – David is more comfortable in a mic booth than on a live stage. His real passion is inspiring, encouraging, informing, or just helping folks see the humor in life, through the written and spoken word, visual imagery, and "theater of the mind".

While pursuing a college degree in “Telecommunications” (i.e., broadcast media such as television and radio), David further developed his natural acting talent through theater, voice, and music classes and roles in college and community theater productions. He also produced and hosted programs at college radio stations. Training and workshops with top Portland area voice and acting coaches further refined David's natural ability as a voice actor

About this time, opportunity knocked in the world of professional acting and voice work. Signing on with a leading Portland, Oregon talent agency, David began doing radio commercials, television gigs, and character modeling, while working a “day job” as a radio traffic reporter where he went by the handle, “Dave, in Mobile 2”. While continuing his freelance talent career, David also worked at several radio stations as a writer, announcer, and producer.

It was during this period that David had the privilege of meeting one of the all-time great, classic voice actors - the late Dallas McKennon (whose credits include performing the voice of the original “Gumby”, numerous voices in Walt Disney movies such as Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp, and 101 Dalmatians, and on-camera roles including the tavern keeper Cincinnatus in the Daniel Boone TV program.) Mr. McKennon was extremely encouraging and a real inspiration to David’s budding career as a voice actor. 

One of David's fond memories is standing with Dallas on the street corner in the pouring rain in Multnomah Village, Oregon as Dallas demonstrated his technique for producing a "gravelly" sounding voice (like he used for the "tough, street dog" in Lady and the Tramp) without hurting one’s throat. Dallas and David received some funny looks from passers by as they stood there, heads tilted back and mouths wide open, roaring at each other like a couple of male sea lions vying for dominance. "Like this? A-a-a-r-r-g-g-h…" "No, like this. A-a-a-a-r-r-r-g-g-g-h-h-h…!"

Along with voice acting, David’s professional career has included work as a copy writer and creative director for a radio station and a small advertising agency and a freelance copy writer of business on-hold messages. In these capacities David has conceived and written thousands of scripts. For many of these productions he cast and directed the voice talent. One of David's passion projects was producing and hosting a radio program called "In the Beginning" which featured interviews of many of the leading biblical, young-earth, Creation scientists. In the course of his career David has voiced hundreds of radio commercials, telephony messages, corporate narrations, and explainer video voiceovers. He has also appeared on-camera in industrial marketing and training videos, in an educational children's program, as a field reporter for the nationally syndicated PM Magazine, and as a comedic actor with the Half-Lit Players of the nationally syndicated Night Light television program. David's current home base is San Diego, California. His current professional focus is recording and producing voiceovers in his broadcast quality home studio along with providing script writing and editing services. (Yes, he still does impersonations and makes mouth noise sound effects!)