Arthur Holden
| Arthur Holden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 28, 1959 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | actor, writer |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Claire Holden Rothman |
Arthur Holden (born August 28, 1959) is a Canadian actor and writer. Best known as a voice actor, with roles including Mr. Ratburn in Arthur, Baba-Miao in Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, Mayor Mallard in The Little Twins, and Mr. Larkin from What's With Andy?, he has also had roles in film, television and theatre, and has written for stage, film and television. Ars Poetica is a play that Holden wrote.[1]
His father was Richard Holden, Canadian politician. He lives in Montreal with writer Claire Holden Rothman.[2]
Holden has also done voices for many videogames such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas, Far Cry Instincts, Hype: The Time Quest Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Film and television work
Holden appears in movies such as The Bone Collector, The Sum of All Fears, Million Dollar Babies, The Hound of the Baskervilles, When Justice Fails, The Greatest Game Ever Played and The Aviator. He voiced the characters of David Miller in the 2005 computer game Still Life and Sibrand in the 2007 game Assassin's Creed. He also appeared on Are You Afraid of the Dark? in its third season episode, "The Tale of the Midnight Ride" as Ichabod Crane's Ghost. His other appearance in that series was Mr. Brooks the science teacher in fifth season episode "The Tale of the Dead Man's Float" and as the Court Jester in sixth season episode "The Tale of the Wisdom Glass".
He also guest starred in TV shows including Soldier of Fortune, Inc., The Hunger and The Business.
Voice work
Holden has also done voices for many cartoon series, video games and films including:
- The Littl' Bits as Snagglebit
- Christopher Columbus as Diego de Harana
- The Little Flying Bears as Walt
- Fred's Head
- Wunderkind Little Amadeus as Devilius
- Lion of Oz
- Animal Crackers
- The Busy World of Richard Scarry as Bump the Cave Pig
- David Copperfield
- Bob in a Bottle
- The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
- A Bunch of Munsch
- Arthur as Mr. Ratburn and Bionic Bunny
- The Little Twins as Mayor Mallard
- Tripping the Rift
- What's With Andy? as Mr. Larkin
- Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat as Baba-Miao
- The Little Lulu Show
- Pinocchio as Policeman #1, Owl and Town Crier
- Samurai Pizza Cats as Spritz T. Cat, Ninja Crows and Yard Bird
- Daft Planet as Frederick Stiles
- Saban's Adventures of Pinocchio as Melanie's Father
- Saban's Adventures of Peter Pan
- Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid as Ridley
- Young Robin Hood
- The Legend of White Fang
- Papa Beaver's Storytime
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Ben
- Iron Nose: The Mysterious Knight
- Winx Club
- Princess Sissi
- Tripping the Rift: The Movie
- Saban’s Gulliver’s Travels
- X-DuckX
- Jim Button
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution as Hugh Darrow
- Cat Tales
- Wunschpunsch
- Fennec
- Wombat City
- The Adventures of Grady Greenspace as Musical Rat#3
- Martin Morning
- Robocar Poli as Roy (US)
- Turtle Island
- Kit and Kaboodle as Dad
- Heavy Metal 2000 as Dr. Schechter
- Robinson Sucroe as Saturday Night
- How the Toys Saved Christmas as Train Driver
- The Animal Train as Dad (US)
- Marsupilami
- The True Story of Puss'N Boots as The Chamberlain
- The Triplets
- Tommy and Oscar
- Spirou
- The Babaloos
- The Kids from Room 402
- Postcards from Buster as Mr. Ratburn
- Mona the Vampire
- The Adventures of Grady Greenspace
- Belphegor
- Chip and Charlie
- Martin Mystery
- The Real Story of Here Comes the Bride as Thurman
- The Real Story of O Christmas Tree as Tannenbaum
- Spaced Out
- The Boy
- Rotten Ralph
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- The Wombles
- The Twins
- Ivanhoe
- Mega Babies
- Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
- The Magical Adventures of Quasimodo
- Gino the Chicken
- Lola and Virginia
- Ratz
- Malo Korrigan
- Ocean Tales
- A Miss Mallard Mystery
- The Bush Baby
- Pet Pals
- Jungle Tales
- Gawayn
- Kitou
- Pipi, Pupu and Rosemary
- Milo
- The Tofus
- Sandokan
- Pirate Family
- Kid Paddle as Mr. Paddle
- Dog's World
- Flat!
- The Bellflower Bunnies
- Shaolin Kids
- Monster Allergy
- Yakari
- Dragon Hunters
- Creepschool
- Moomins and the Comet Chase as Snork
- Mica
- The Three Pigs
- Martin Morning
- Lucky Luke
- Snailympics
- Supernatural: The Animation
- Journey to the West – Legends of the Monkey King
Writer
- Father Land
- Out of Control
- Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
- Potatoes and Dragons
- Sharky and George
- Bob in a Bottle
- Three Little Ghosts
- Lucky Luke
- The Book of Bob
- Ars Poetica
- Battered
Live-action
- 300 as Partisan
- The Aviator as Radio Announcer
- Warm Bodies as Zombie Patient
- Mirror Mirror as Noble #1
- Whiteout
- The Greatest Game Ever Played as Club Secretary
- Eternal
- Where the Money Is as Bob
- Fatman and Little Boy as Oakridge Doctor
- Killing Yard
- God Bless the Child
- Wild Thing
- Is the Clown at War with Us? as Narrator
- The Storm Within (Rouge sang)
- Stonewall as Frank Kameny
References
- ↑ Writer Arthur Holden describes Ars Poetica at YouTube
- ↑ "The revolution comes home". The Gazette, August 29, 2014.