| abstract | - Voicing Beauregard (and Uncle Deadly) again in Die Muppets, he ws one of only three remaining voice artists to reprise their roles from the original Muppet Show dub; the other two were Christina Hoeltel as Scooter and Michael Rüth as Rowlf. Born in New York, Arthur studied opera and moved to Munich in 1960. He soon became involved in the dubbing industry, first looping English dialogue for German films and then re-dubbing English dialogue into German. He did a particularly close sound-alike for Peter Ustinov in such films as One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, Appointment with Death, and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (as well as The Great Muppet Caper). Often cast in roles calling for deep voices or an American accent, he also dubbed James Earl Jones in Fantasia 2000 and Will & Grace, Paul Bartel in Caddyshack 2, Shashi Kapoor in The Deceivers, Isaac Hayes in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and bit parts in Casablanca. Animation dubbing credits include Igor on Count Duckula, Kent Brockman on The Simpsons, and Chef on South Park, as well as the Jabberwock in Eberhard Storeck's dub of the Alice in Wonderland anime series. Animated feature work includes The Lord of the Rings (as Gimli), Pixar's Ratatouille (Gusteau), Heavy Metal, and Hugo the Hippo. For Disney, he was heard in Make Mine Music (as the narrator, Tetti Tatti, and other singing and speaking roles in "Willie the Operatic Whale"), The Small One (the auctioneer), Darkwing Duck (Taurus Bulba), and Hercules (Cyclops). He provided the English-language voices of Falkor in The Neverending Story II and Jean-Paul Canalligator in the direct-to-video entry A Rat's Tale (with Jerry Stiller). He had on-camera roles in the mini-series Wagner (starring Richard Burton) and the TV movie The Saint: Wrong Number.
- Donald Caldwell Arthur, Jr. is a retired U.S. Navy medical corps vice admiral (VADM). He entered the Navy in 1974 and eventually served as the 35th Surgeon General of the United States Navy (2004–2007).
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