Dee Bradley Baker

Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor whose specialty is the thing most voice actors cannot do at all: sounds that are not words. Much of his work consists of vocalisations of animals and monsters, which means building a character with no dialogue to lean on and keeping it legible across a hundred episodes. Appa in Avatar: The Last Airbender is a six-ton flying bison with moods. Momo is a lemur with opinions. Waddles, Lion in Steven Universe, Naga and Pabu in The Legend of Korra, Eagly in Peacemaker, Morris in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the raccoons and squirrels of The Wild Robot: all of them read as personalities rather than sound effects, which is the whole job.

He also does the exact opposite, and it is his most extreme credit. On Star Wars: The Clone Wars he voices essentially every clone trooper, which means performing dozens of men who are genetically identical and must still be distinguishable by ear alone, across seven seasons. Rex, Cody and the rest are separated by rhythm, pitch and attitude rather than accent, and the show's emotional spine depends on the audience telling them apart.

Around those two poles sits an enormous conventional resume: Klaus on American Dad!, Squilliam Fancyson and Perch Perkins in the SpongeBob films, Stinkfly and Wildmutt on Ben 10, plus long runs on Family Guy, Futurama, Gravity Falls, The Owl House, We Bare Bears and Teen Titans. If a modern American cartoon has a creature in it, the odds are decent that he is inside it.