Jeff Bennett is an American voice actor and singer who was born on October 2, 1962 in Houston, Texas. Cartoon audiences know him best for the voices he lent to Johnny Bravo's cocky hero, the flying dinosaur Petrie in The Land Before Time series, and Kowalski in The Penguins of Madagascar.
Career
He received his acting training at the Alley Theater in his hometown, Houston, and moved to California in 1990 to focus on voice acting. One of his first major works was James Bond Jr. I.Q. in the TV series It was his character. Since the mid-1990s, he has become one of the hardest-working voices in television animation: he voiced Brooklyn in Gargoyles and Dexter's father in Dexter's Laboratory; He played the lead character in Johnny Bravo, which aired between 1995 and 2004.
Petrie continued his role in the Prehistoric Lands sequels and television series for many years. He played Kowalski, known for his plans, in Madagascar Penguins, which started in 2008. He also lent his voice to the Man in the Yellow Hat in the TV series Curious George. He won the Daytime Emmy Award for best performance in an animated program in 2016 for his role as Mayor Lusky in Transformers: Rescue Bots.
Bennett is known not for one distinctive voice, but for his wide range of voices that adapt to different ages and characters; He has worked on hundreds of animated series, movies and video games throughout his career.
