John Hasler (born 24 April 1974) is a British voice artist and theatre performer who voices for the CGI series of Fireman Sam. He also does the voice of Gargoyle in "Mike the Knight", Toot in "Toot the Tiny Tugboat", Thomas in the UK dub (succeeding Ben Small) and Rheneas in one episode in both dubs of "Thomas & Friends" and also presented the links between programmes on CiTV.
Characters[]
- James Jones (eighth series onwards)
- Arnold McKinley
- The Cameraman
- The Prince
Trivia[]
- Hasler is best remembered for playing T-Shirt in "T-Bag", written by Lee Pressman.
- He once did an advertisement in 1992 for Persil, which was narrated by John Alderton, who did the narration and voices in the original series of Fireman Sam.[1]
- He, Kerry Shale and Steven Kynman voice characters in "Thomas & Friends".
- He took over the role of James from Steven Kynman because there was little difference between Kynman's James and Norman voices. It is also thought that it was because James sounded too old compared to Sarah.
- He and Juha Varis voiced Thomas from "Thomas & Friends" in their respective languages (Hasler in English and Varis in Finnish).
- He, Steven Kynman, and Harriet Kershaw voice characters in the UK dub of "Yoohoo to the Rescue".
- He is known for voicing Cluck in Wonderblocks.
Gallery[]
John Hasler with Lee Pressman
John Hasler and Lee Pressman on the set of "T-Bag"