Keith Ferguson(II)
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
After studying theatrical performance and creative writing at the
University of the Pacific and University of Southern California,
Ferguson worked behind the scenes in daytime television production
while occasionally finding time to perform in local theatre productions
and improvisation groups. Towards the end of his production career, he
actively began his pursuit of a career in voice-over. In 1999, while
working on what would turn out to be his last full-time position in TV
production, a voice-over agent named Pat Brady, after discovering
Ferguson the week prior in a voice-over workshop in Toluca Lake,
California, and before even officially signing with him for
representation, sent him out on what would be his first professional
voice-over audition (a sound-alike for
Keanu Reeves in a 60 second radio spot
satirizing The Matrix (1999) for the
former Hollywood Video movie-rental franchise). He ended up booking the
role from this first VO audition, after which he officially signed with
Pat Brady who, through two talent agencies, would continue to represent
him to this day. In 2000, Ferguson gained his first experience in
animation voice-over alongside VO actors
Rob Paulsen and
David Sobolov having booked the role of
"Ray" on a former, somewhat obscure CG animated web-series entitled
"Li'l Green Men" featured on Warner Bros. former website
"Entertaindom." After the next 3 years while building up his voice-over
repertoire with various roles in commercial spots, video games,
animation, and sound-alike voice-matching for various films, he would
be cast in one of the first of his more notable roles being that of
Blooregard Q. Kazoo, a.k.a "Bloo" in
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004)
created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios and Boulder Media by
animator Craig McCracken creator of
The Powerpuff Girls (1998).
This was accompanied by other notable performances such as General
'Thunderbolt' Ross in the animated series
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010),
Friend Owl in the feature
Bambi 2: The Great Prince of the Forest (2006), as well as his
recurring vocal portrayal of
Harrison Ford as Han Solo and
Indiana Jones in
Robot Chicken (2001), the
regular series along with its growing franchise of Star Wars parodies.
In 2008 Ferguson was also vocally featured as two differently styled
race-announcers in two TV commercials for the sports beverage, Vitamin
Water; one featuring race-car driver
Carl Edwards with
Ralph Macchio paying homage to his
role in The Karate Kid (1984), and
the other a Super Bowl ad featuring
Shaquille O'Neal as an unlikely
victorious horse-race jockey. Since then he's continued his work in
several animation and video game projects as well as periodic
voice-match work for the likes of
Keanu Reeves,
Ray Romano,
Will Ferrell,
Paul Walker,
Andy Dick,
Martin Short,
Owen Wilson,
Bruce Greenwood,
Billy Bob Thornton, and
Dan Aykroyd amongst many others.