BUSTER
JONES
Notable
Roles: Black Vulcan, Spaghetti Man/Twiggy Sander, Blaster,
Doc, Zap, Winston Zeddemore, Lothar
Born
Edward Jones, he began his career playing music with various bands around the
world before ending up in Washington, DC as a DJ. In 1972, he shifted into a
career on camera with a role in the film The Marshal of Windy
Hollow. In 1973, he was recruited
by Dick
Clark to host the short-lived spin-off to American
Bandstand called Soul Unlimited,
which was designed to compete with Soul Train by
appealing to that program’s audience. In 1977, after a stint doing voiceover
for commercials, Jones’ agency sent him out for an interview and he landed the
role of Hanna-Barbera’s
original character, Black Vulcan, in the Super
Friends franchise. Hanna-Barbera
later tagged him as the voice of Harlem Globetrotter Twiggy Sanders
in the series The
Super Globetrotters. In 1981, he began
a long association with Marvel Productions,
Sunbow
Productions and Hasbro
when he lent his voice to the syndicated Spider-Man,
then
went on to have multiple roles in G.I.
Joe: A Real American Hero, Transformers and
Jem.
Jones’
biggest role, however, came in 1988 when he replaced Arsenio Hall
as the voice of Winston Zeddemore in The
Real Ghostbusters; which he would reprise in two episodes
of the follow-up, Extreme
Ghostbusters. After a few more minor
roles in the likes of Batman:
The Animated Series and The Twisted
Tales of Felix the Cat, Jones largely disappeared from the spotlight after
1998 as job
offers dried up; getting mostly music gigs and starting up his own record
company, Buster Jones Records. He died at his home in North Hollywood in 2014
at the age of 70.
Saturday
Credits:
The All-New Super Friends Hour
Challenge of the Superfriends
The Super Globetrotters
Spider-Man (1981)
Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
The Flintstone Kids
Jem
The Real Ghostbusters
The Karate Kid (1989)
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
The New Batman Adventures
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