Hank Garrett

As a child Hank Garrett was glued to the radio and would imitate the voices he heard His favorite show was Can You Top This He would listen to the resident dialectician and master storyteller named Peter Donald to write down all the jokes he heard in a little book He continued to regale family and friends with his budding comedy act At the age of sixteen he began a career working as a comedian in resort hotels His first television acting job of major importance was Patrolman Ed Nicholsonon Car 54 Where Are You He also provided a number of trick voices and dialects for radio commercials Then he auditioned and got the job doing the voices for Fluffy and Fast Eddie on the animated Here Comes Garfield show Soon after Hank had the honor of providing the voice for the new GI Joe Communications Specialist DialTone on the GI Joe A Real American Hero animated series This popular character appeared in the GI Joe Arise Serpentor Arise miniseries as well as more than twentyfour of the syndicated episodes He also reprised his voice acting role for DialTone on the animated GI Joe The Movie Convention Attendees can meet the man behindthevoice for autographs and perhaps even get their 2011 Convention Exclusive DialTone signed