Life and Career
In 1973, he joined a comedy troupe called the Zoo Factory, whose members consisted of Dan Hennessey, Bruce Gordon, Harriet Cohen and Jerelyn Homer.
On television, Stocker played the voice of Beastly, the villain on the Nelvana version of the Care Bears television series The Care Bears.
He and Zoo Factory alumni Dan Hennessey appeared as Thomson and Thompson on The Adventures of Tintin.
In the film industry, he voiced the Cheshire Cat, as well as The Wizard's assistant Dim, in 1987's The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland, and he played a character named Sol in 1993's Look Who's Talking Now.
He was also the voice director on Beyblade, Medabots, Committed, Pandalian, Sailor Moon, Caillou, The Amazing Spiez!, Animated Tales of the World, Rob the Robot, Totally Spies!, Totally Spies! The Movie, Plop!, Mona the Vampire, Martin Mystery, What It's Like Being Alone, The Goal, Zeroman, Strawberry Cafe, Monster Buster Club, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Ky Staxx, The Mulligans and Di-Gata Defenders.
Stocker is one of the few voice actors to appear in all three of the Super Mario Bros. animated series with one of the characters that he had voiced being Toad. He has also done voices for many video games including Jagged Alliance 2, Naruto, Hype: The Time Quest, Spawn: In the Demon's Hand, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business and Silent Storm as well as voice directing Beyblade: Super Tournament Battle, Medabots Infinity, Sentinel: Descendants in Time and Magna Carta: Tears of Blood.
Currently, Stocker lives near Toronto in Bowmanville, Ontario on 21 acres (8.5 ha) of rural land with his wife, Tara, and his daughter Bailey. He is also at present a member of Toronto's VoiceWorks.
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