Jorge Arvizu

Jorge Arvizu, nicknamed "El Tata", is a Latin American voice actor who voiced both Scratch in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Young Antoine in Sonic SatAM.

Other voice roles
He has been actively dubbing cartoon characters since the 1950s, earning him a reputation as the Spanish Mel Blanc. He was both seen and heard on Plaza Sesamo, appearing on-camera during the first few seasons as Jose, the storekeeper who loves nature and the outdoors. He was also the original dub voice of Elmo, Bert, and Cookie Monster in Sesame Street.

Arvizu began his career as a magician and appeared on early Mexican television. His voice career began with the Spanish-language dub of the puppet series Howdy Doody, as Howdy and his friend Don Burro. He soon established himself dubbing such theatrical cartoon stars as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, Mighty Mouse, Popeye, and Felix the Cat. In the 1960s, he was often heard in Hanna-Barbera series, as Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones, Choo-Choo and Benny the Ball on Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla, So-so the monkey on Peter Potamus and His Flying Balloon, Dr. Doom on The Fantastic Four and Henry Orbit on The Jetsons.

Arvizu's other animation credits include Pedro and Dachsie in the Disney feature Lady and the Tramp, Ringo and George on The Beatles cartoon, and Glasses Crow's grandfather in Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures, Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures 2: Glasses Crow Goes North, Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures 3: Little Crow Lost, Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures 4: Lost in time, The Dwarves', The Crows', and The Vultures' Wishes, Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures, and The Magic Rock, Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures: Adventures in Florida, and The Dwarves, Crows, and Vultures Caper. In live-action television, Arvizu dubbed Don Adams on Get Smart, Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester on The Addams Family, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin on Batman, and The Robot on the original Lost in Space series. His most recent dubbing assignments include two Pixar features, replacing Cheech Marin as Ramon in the Mexican and Argentinian dubs of Cars and Ian Holm as chef Skinner in Ratatouille.

Trivia

 * Jorge was born in 1933.
 * He has three children - a son named Mario Arvizu and two daughters named Karina Arvizu and Wendy Arvizu. His wife is unknown, but his brother's name is Rubén Arvizu, and he has a brother-in-law named Jorge Roig, two sisters-in-law named Sylvia Garcel and Rocío Garcel, a nephew named Jorge Roig, Jr. and Vanesa Garcel, and a nephew-in-law named Jesús Vallejo.
 * His son Mario was born in 1970, his daughter Karina, in 1974, and his daughter Wendy in 1981.