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| - Bob West is a puppeteer who first performed Barney.
- Bob West, a native of Texas, auditioned for Barney back in 1987 like any voice actor would (with a written description of the character and maybe a picture). As he recalls, "I didn't get the description until a few minutes before the first audition (and no drawings?), so I had to pretty much create it on the spot, which is common. There was at least one callback audition, I think and the voice was adjusted a bit, as it was before and during early production. At the time, they were also considering using one person for both body and voice, but I was too tall for the costume they'd already started making." Since then, Bob's voice for Barney has changed over the years. Bob's voice was not only used in the Barney and the Backyard Gang videos and on the Barney & Friends television show, but als
- Bob West (born June 25, 1956) is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. Out of all the voice actors of Barney, West's voice is the most well-known. West has provided voices for various other characters, including Jasper and Pasqually in Chuck E. Cheese's locations with Duncan Brannan, TV and radio ads for Pepsi, Bud Light (English and Spanish), Coors Light, Frito-Lay, KFC, Armour Meats, Texas Monthly Magazine, and Texas Lottery.
- Robert "Bob" West (b. January 17, 1956) is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit PBS children's show Barney & Friends. West, a native of Pennsylvania has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. West did voices for Muppet characters for Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, like the Yapper-Nap, Little Cat G, and Ben. Bob is currently employed as an independent art consultant for movies and television shows. Bob is also a web developer.
- West is best known as the voice of Barney in the children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. As Barney, West's voice was used on the television series, in a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC prime-time specials, for touring performances, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for "personal appearances". He also voiced interviews on The Today Show, Live With Regis & Kathy Lee, Oprah, The Phil Donahue Show, John & Leeza, Marilu, and appearances around the world.
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| - Bob West, a native of Texas, auditioned for Barney back in 1987 like any voice actor would (with a written description of the character and maybe a picture). As he recalls, "I didn't get the description until a few minutes before the first audition (and no drawings?), so I had to pretty much create it on the spot, which is common. There was at least one callback audition, I think and the voice was adjusted a bit, as it was before and during early production. At the time, they were also considering using one person for both body and voice, but I was too tall for the costume they'd already started making." Since then, Bob's voice for Barney has changed over the years. Bob's voice was not only used in the Barney and the Backyard Gang videos and on the Barney & Friends television show, but also on a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC primetime specials, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for live tours and "personal appearances." In addition, he voiced interviews on The Today Show, Live With Regis & Kathy Lee, Oprah, The Phil Donahue Show, John & Leeza, Marilu, and appearances around the world. In 2000, (which was also his final year of voicing Barney), Bob retired from doing the purple dino's voice after doing his voice for 2 more Barney videos (Barney's Rhyme Time Rhythm, & Barney's Musical Castle), and the role was handed to Duncan Brannan, Tim Dever, and then Dean Wendt.
- Robert "Bob" West (b. January 17, 1956) is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit PBS children's show Barney & Friends. West, a native of Pennsylvania has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. As Barney, his voice was used on the television series, in a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC primetime specials, for touring performances, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for "personal appearances". He also voiced interviews on The Today Show, LIVE! with Regis & Kathie Lee, Oprah, The Donahue Show, John & Leeza From Hollywood, Marilu, and appearances around the world. In 2000, he retired from voicing Barney and was temporarily for the Voice of Riff's Robot: replaced by voice actor Duncan Brannan, who met him through their affiliation as the voices of the mascot cartoon mouse Chuck E. Cheese, and Tim Dever. In 2002, Dean Wendt replaced Brannan and Dever as the purple dinosaur's voice, and Carey Stinson replaced David Joyner as the character's body performer. However, West's pre-recorded voice can still be heard in A Day in the Park with Barney at Universal Studios Florida, as it was recorded in 1995, and his archival recordings are still heard in some of HIT Entertainment's The Little Big Club live stage shows. West has provided voices of Jasper T. Jowls and Pasqually in Chuck E. Cheese's CyberStar showtapes with Duncan Brannan from January 1986-January 1994, returned one time at August '95, came back on January 1996 until 'Xmas 1998, TV and radio ads for Pepsi, Bud Light (English and Spanish), Coors Light, Frito-Lay, KFC, Armour Meats, Circuit City, Texas Monthly Magazine, and Texas Lottery. West did voices for Muppet characters for Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, like the Yapper-Nap, Little Cat G, and Ben. Bob is currently employed as an independent art consultant for movies and television shows. Bob is also a web developer.
- Bob West is a puppeteer who first performed Barney.
- West is best known as the voice of Barney in the children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. As Barney, West's voice was used on the television series, in a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC prime-time specials, for touring performances, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for "personal appearances". He also voiced interviews on The Today Show, Live With Regis & Kathy Lee, Oprah, The Phil Donahue Show, John & Leeza, Marilu, and appearances around the world. In 2000, West retired as the voice of Barney, and was temporarily replaced by voice actor Duncan Brannan, who met him through their affiliation as the voices of Chuck E. Cheese, until Dean Wendt took over as the voice of Barney in 2002. West's voice as Barney can still be heard in A Day In The Park With Barney at Universal Studios Florida, as it was recorded in 1995. West has provided voices for TV and radio ads for Pepsi, Bud Light, Coors Light, Frito-Lay, KFC, Armour Meats, Circuit City, Texas Monthly Magazine, and the Texas Lottery.
- Bob West (born June 25, 1956) is an American television actor best known as the voice of Barney in the hit children's show Barney & Friends. He has also appeared in several Barney-related shows such as concert tours. Out of all the voice actors of Barney, West's voice is the most well-known. As Barney, West's voice was used on the television series, in a 70 market radio show, on Multi-Platinum and Multi-Gold albums, for a feature film, for CBS and NBC primetime specials, for touring performances, as a Daytime Emmy presenter, for toys, for educational games, and for "personal appearances". He also voiced interviews on The Today Show, Live With Regis & Kathy Lee, Oprah, The Phil Donahue Show, John & Leeza, Marilu, and appearances around the world. In 2000, West retired from the role and was temporarily replaced by voice actor Duncan Brannan, who met him through their affiliation as the voices of Chuck E. Cheese. In 2002, Dean Wendt replaced Brannan as the purple dinosaur's voice. However, West's pre-recorded voice can still be heard in A Day In The Park With Barney at Universal Studios Florida, as it was recorded in 1995. West has provided voices for various other characters, including Jasper and Pasqually in Chuck E. Cheese's locations with Duncan Brannan, TV and radio ads for Pepsi, Bud Light (English and Spanish), Coors Light, Frito-Lay, KFC, Armour Meats, Texas Monthly Magazine, and Texas Lottery.
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