Classick Material

For Black History Month, we’re celebrating the black actors who have brought some of our favourite Transformers to life over the years! Click each link to read our individual articles about these talented men and women!

Scatman Crothers (G1 Jazz) –  Arthur Burghardt (G1 Devastator) – Buster Jones (G1 Blaster)

Blu Mankuma (Tigatron) – Keith Diamond (Robots in Disguise Rapid Run) – Alvin Sanders (Armada Demolishor)

Doron Bell (Energon Cliffjumper) – Darius McCrary (Movieverse Jazz) – Keith David (Movieverse Barricade, video games)

Bumper Robinson (Animated Bumblebee & Blitzwing) – Cree Summer (Animated Blackarachnia) – Phil LaMarr (Animated Jazz & Jetstorm)

Reno Wilson (Movieverse Frenzy, Mudflap & Brains) – Tony Todd (Movieverse Fallen & Prime Dreadwing) – Isaac Singleton Jr. (War for Cybertron Soundwave)

Kevin Michael Richardson (Animated Omega Supreme & Prime Bulkhead) – Dwayne Johnson (Prime Cliffjumper) – Gina Torres (Prime Airachnid)

 Ernie Hudson (Prime’s Agent Fowler) –  Billy Brown (the second voice of Prime Cliffjumper, in the episode “Out of the Past”) –  Peter Mensah (Prime Predaking)

Imari Williams (Rescue Bots Boulder) – LeVar Burton (Rescue Bots’ Doc Greene) – Diamond White (Rescue Bots’  Frankie Greene) 

Khary Payton (Robots in Disguise Grimlock) – Arif S. Kinchen (Robots in Disguise Jazz) – Jackée Harry (Robots in Disguise Zizza)