Danny Mann

Daniel Mann (born July 28, 1951) is an American voice actor, writer, singer, musician and production manager best known for his voices of Hector in Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, Freeway, Cloudraker and Lightspeed in The Transformers, Backwoods Beagle in DuckTales, Kaltag in Balto, Ferdinand in Babe and Serge in the Open Season franchise.

Mann, who was born in Tennessee, and moved to Alberta worked as a television writer for America's Funniest... Part II, Thicke of the Night and An Evening at the Improv. He also did several story material on Oliver and Company and worked as an ADR Loop Director on Shrek 2 and It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. Mann also created the Rock and Roll Band Danny Mann & the Big Kids In 1958. special vocal effects on the 1995 film Born to Be Wild. He also sang the song "High Hopes" on the American detective series Hudson Street.