Died at 64
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Thomas Kane Roberts (April 15, 1962 – May 18, 2026) was an American voice actor. He was known for his work in animation and video games, most notably the Star Wars franchise, voicing established characters Yoda, Admiral Ackbar, Boba Fett, Qui-Gon Jinn, and C-3PO. Other notable roles include Professor Utonium in The Powerpuff Girls, Darwin Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys, Mr. Herriman in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Woodhouse in Archer, taking the role over from George Coe following his death in 2015. Kane provided his voice as an announcer for theme park attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and served as an announcer for several Academy Awards ceremonies, as well as for the Adult Swim series The Eric Andre Show in its second season. In November 2020, Kane suffered a stroke which left him with significant weakness on the right side of his body and damage to his speaking, writing, and reading abilities. In September 2021, his daughter Sam confirmed that he had to retire from voice acting. She gave regular updates on Facebook about his condition. Kane later died from complications of the stroke at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, on May 18, 2026, at the age of 64.
Tom Kane
Professor Utonium
for Professor Utonium in Cartoon Network's 30th Anniversary Special
Suggested by ccarbe6062
This is how I’ll write a Cartoon Network 30th anniversary special: There will be four hosts of the special and Lebron James will be one of the hosts. Before the special begins, there will be footage that will be pre-taped before the special begins. There will be four studios that the hosts will reside in: The Warner Bros Animation studios, The Cartoon Network hotel (where the modern CN characters will live at), the Cartoon Network Studios at Burbank (where the classic CN characters will live at) and Williams Street in Atlanta (where the AS characters will reside). Each host has to try to take care of the characters and put everything in order where they try to cause trouble for one another in the WB Studios (since Looney Tunes, MGM and Hanna Barbera characters cause trouble for one another but get along later on) whereas the CN Hotel, CN studios in Burbank and Adult Swim characters are just chillin. Afterwards, the hosts and the cartoon characters that are outside of Burbank/LA try to get into the plane but the plane is bloated with a lot of cartoon characters.
