Bill Ratner net worth is
$800,000
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Bill Ratner is a published author, American voice actor, and solo performance artist. His personal essays are published in: The Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review and The Missouri Review.Ratner’s performances of his personal essays are featured on KCRW’s Strangers, and National Public Radio's The Business. and Good Food. He tours nationally for storytelling conferences, and festivals, is a regular competitor in The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles, is an eight-time Moth StorySLAM Winner, a National Storytelling Festival Story Slam teller-Jonesborough TN, a National Storytelling Network storyteller. He has been a Los Angeles Unified School storyteller since 1993. He is a contributing author of the book Secrets of Voiceover Success. He is a two-time winner of "Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension" - Solo Category for "Bobbywood: Whatever Happened to Bobby the Bellboy?" in 2013 and Voices in my Head: A Life. He is a member of Actors Equity Association, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) where he teaches voiceovers, and chairs the Hollywood SAG-AFTRA TV Promo & Movie Trailer Announcers Caucus. He is best known for being the voice of Flint in Hasbro’s syndicated TV cartoon G.I. Joe. He reprised the role of “Flint” in episodes of Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Community. He is the movie trailer voice for Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Tenacious D, Mike Myers's The Love Guru, Monsters vs. Aliens, Observe and Report, Extract, The Goods, Youth in Revolt, and many more. He is the narrator in documentaries on Discovery, A&E, E! True Hollywood Story, Travel Channel and History. His voice is on Kings Quest, Grand Theft Auto III & Grand Theft Auto IV, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. and is the narrator in episodes of Ben 10 for the Cartoon Network. Bill is also a voice-over announcer for television stations across the United States.
| Net Worth | $800,000 |
| Date Of Birth | February 25, 1947 |
| Place Of Birth | St. Paul, Minnesota, USA |
| Occupation | Voice Actor, performance artist, author |
| Profession | Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Writer |
| Nicknames | Bill Ratner, Ratner, Bill |
| Star Sign | Pisces |
| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Nephew of actor Bob Jellison. |
| 2 | Father of Arianna Ratner. |
| 3 | Ratner is an 8-time winner of The Moth Story Slams. His stories are heard on NPR. He is a voice on movie trailers: The Rum Diary, MegaMind, Yogi Bear, Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Observe & Report, The Goods, Extract, Youth in Revolt, etc. plus documentaries on WX Channel, Discovery, History Channel, Smithsonian, A&E, and TV promos on NBC-TV, ABC-TV, Tru-TV, HDNet, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, and he is the voice of Udina on Mass Effect I, II & III, storyteller on Ben Ten, and radio voice on Grand Theft Auto. |
| 4 | In 2009 Ratner and G.I. Joe director Wally Burr were interviewed for the Special Features on the 17 DVD Collectors Set of G.I. Joe released by Hasbro. Ratner and Mary McDonald-Lewis, who provided the voice of Lady Jaye on GI Joe, both did an interview for the 2004 DVD release of the series, recalling how the auditions were like an old time Hollywood "cattle call" with hundreds of actors lined up, holding scripts in shaking hands. Ratner recalled that part of his audition required him to grunt and groan as if he were in a fight. He and Mary had both worked together before GI Joe, doing an ad for a local store, where she remembered her lines but he didn't. |
| 5 | Voice of Flint from the GI Joe animated series of the 1980s. His role of Flint is also reprised on episodes of Family Guy and Robot Chicken. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Fainaru fantajî XV | 2016 | Video Game | Additional Voices (English version, voice) |
| Fantasy Hospital | 2016 | TV Series | Berry King |
| I (Almost) Got Away with It | 2010-2016 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Air Disasters | 2011-2016 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Aidan Park: On the F List | 2015 | TV Series | Bill Ratner |
| Lincoln's Last Day | 2015 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| I (Almost) Got Away with It: What Would Kenda Do? | 2014 | TV Series | Narrator |
| Office Ninja | 2014 | | Mr. Carlin |
| Community | 2014 | TV Series | Flint |
| Grand Theft Auto V | 2013 | Video Game | Republican Space Rangers Announcer (voice) |
| Dr Awkward | 2013 | Short | Professor |
| Mass Effect 3 | 2012 | Video Game | Donnel Udina (voice) |
| Behind Mansion Walls | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Scents & Nonsense | 2010 | Short | Narrator (voice) |
| Mass Effect 2 | 2010 | Video Game | Donnel Udina
Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner (voice) |
| The Lifter Upper | 2009 | Short voice, uncredited | |
| Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | 2009 | Video Game | Announcer - The Men's Room / Announcer - Republican Space Rangers (voice) |
| Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned | 2009 | Video Game | Announcer - Republican Space Rangers / Announcer - The Men's Room (voice) |
| Robot Chicken | 2006-2009 | TV Series | Flint
George Henderson
Gomez Addams
... |
| Air Emergency | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Grand Theft Auto IV | 2008 | Video Game | Announcer for The Men's Room / Republican Space Rangers Announcer / Split Sides Announcer / ... (voice) |
| Ben 10 | 2006-2008 | TV Series | Narrator / Baddie #2 |
| Mass Effect | 2007 | Video Game | Ambassador Donnel Udina
Hollis Blake
Krogan Patron (voice) |
| Back to You | 2007 | TV Series | Announcer |
| Diggs Tailwagger | 2007 | TV Movie | Announcer (voice) |
| Geppetto's Secret | 2005 | | Humpty Dumpty (voice) |
| Family Guy | 2005 | TV Series | Flint |
| Fat Albert | 2004 | | Announcer (voice) |
| Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate - Dark Alliance II | 2004 | Video Game voice | |
| Search for the Mothman | 2002 | TV Movie | Narrator |
| Secret Passages | 2002 | TV Series | Narrator (voice) |
| Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | 1997 | TV Series | Stu Simmons |
| King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow | 1992 | Video Game | Narrator (voice) |
| Lobster Man from Mars | 1989 | | Character Voice (voice) |
| G.I. Joe: The Movie | 1987 | Video | Flint (voice) |
| G.I. Joe | 1985-1986 | TV Series | Flint
Cobra Trooper #2
Cobra Trooper
... |
| The Transformers | 1986 | TV Series | Flint
Dashiell R. Faireborn |
| G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! | 1986 | TV Movie | Flint (voice) |
| The Turkey Caper | 1985 | TV Movie | George (voice) |
| Explorers | 1985 | voice | |
| Which Witch Is Which | 1984 | TV Movie | George (voice) |
| G.I. Joe: The Revenge of Cobra | 1984 | TV Mini-Series | Flint |
| The Christmas Tree Train | 1983 | TV Movie | George (voice) |
| Meatballs and Spaghetti | 1982 | TV Series voice | |
Miscellaneous
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| E! True Hollywood Story | 2004-2005 | TV Series documentary narrator - 2 episodes | |
| Impact: Stories of Survival | 2004-2005 | TV Series documentary narrator - 9 episodes | |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Mt. Everest: The Fatal Climb | 1999 | TV Movie documentary narration | |
| Silverhawks | 1986 | TV Series writer - 1 episode | |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| I Know That Voice | 2013 | Documentary special thanks | |
| Centered in the Universe | 2006 | Documentary short special thanks | |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Mt. Everest: The Fatal Climb | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Masters of Fantasy | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Berlin Airlift: First Battle of the Cold War | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Masters of Fantasy | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Last Days of World War II | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Announcer (voice) |
| Potential | | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| Air Disasters | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| VO Buzz Weekly | 2012-2013 | TV Series | Himself |
| I Know That Voice | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Unseen | 2011/II | Documentary short | Voice (voice) |
| Men and Women of Action: Creating the G.I. Joe Animated Series | 2009 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Inside | 2009 | TV Series documentary | Himself / Narrator |
| Conspiracy Files | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| THS Investigates: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| THS Investigates: Love Behind Bars | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Modern Marvels | 1997-2005 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Impact: Stories of Survival | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Narrator (2004-present) (voice) |
| The Greatest Boxer: Muhammad Ali | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself / Narrator |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|
| 2015 | BTVA Television Voice Acting Award | Behind the Voice Actors Awards | Best Male Vocal Performance in a Television Series in a Guest Role - Comedy/Musical | Community (2009) |
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