Keith Ferguson Biography

Keith James Ferguson (born February 26, 1972) is an American voice actor, well known as the voice of Blooregard Q. Kazoo (or "Bloo" for short) on the Cartoon Network animated series Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He also provides a number of "sound-alike" portrayals in the VO industry including Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Indiana Jones in Robot Chicken and the voice of Lightning McQueen in Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales, filling in for Owen Wilson.

Early life

Ferguson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Career

After studying theatrical performance and creative writing at the University of the Pacific and University of Southern California, Ferguson worked behind the scenes in daytime television production while occasionally finding time to perform in local theatre productions and improvisation groups.

Voice acting

Towards the end of his production career, he actively began his pursuit of a career in voice-over. In 1999, while working on what would turn out to be his last full-time position in TV production, a voice-over agent named Pat Brady, after discovering Ferguson the week prior in a voice-over workshop in Toluca Lake, California, and before even officially signing with him for representation, sent him out on what would be his first professional voice-over audition (a sound-alike for Keanu Reeves in a 60 second radio spot satirizing The Matrix for the former Hollywood Video movie-rental franchise). He ended up booking the role from this first VO audition, after which he officially signed with Pat Brady who, through two talent agencies, would continue to represent him to this day.

In 2000, Ferguson gained his first experience in animation voice-over alongside VO actors Rob Paulsen and David Sobolov having booked the role of "Ray" on a former, somewhat obscure CG animated web-series entitled Li'l Green Men featured on Warner Bros. former website "Entertaindom." After the next 3 years while building up his voice-over repertoire with various roles in commercial spots, video games, animation, and sound-alike voice-matching for various films, he would be cast in one of the first of his more notable roles being that of Blooregard Q. Kazoo, a.k.a. "Bloo" in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends created and produced at Cartoon Network Studios and Boulder Media by animator Craig McCracken, creator of The Powerpuff Girls. This was accompanied by other notable performances such as General "Thunderbolt" Ross in the animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Friend Owl in the feature Bambi II, as well as his recurring portrayal of Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Indiana Jones in Robot Chicken, the regular series along with its growing franchise of Star Wars parodies.

Amidst further various vocal appearances in animation, a few of which include credits on Family Guy, Adventure Time, Phineas and Ferb, Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Legion of Super Heroes, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, Ferguson also found a role in Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales subbing as Lightning McQueen.

Ferguson was also vocally featured as two differently styled race-announcers in two TV commercials for the sports beverage, Vitamin Water; one featuring race-car driver Carl Edwards with Ralph Macchio paying homage to his role in The Karate Kid, and the other a Super Bowl ad featuring Shaquille O'Neal as an unlikely victorious horse-race jockey.

Personal life

Ferguson's mother is a retired probate estate specialist, whilst his father was a well-known pianist who was one of Southern California's popular piano men until his death in 1999.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	The Defender	Additional Voices	Direct To Home Video
2003	The Death of Batman	Voiceovers	Short
2006	Bambi II	Friend Owl
	Ultimate Avengers	Additional Voices	Direct-to-video
2011	Larry & Lydia	Larry
	Batman: Year One	Jefferson Skeevers	Direct-to-video
2013	Monsters University	Additional Voices

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004-2009	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	Blooregard Q. Kazoo (Bloo) Additional Voices	Main role Nominated - Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production
2006	Four Eyes!	Syler
	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	Additional Voices
	Codename: Kids Next Door	Numbuh 1-Love	Episodes: "Operation I.T." "Operation C.A.N.Y.O.N./Operation H.O.L.I.D.A.Y."
	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	Bill Ken Sebben	Episode: "Birdnapped"
	Hellboy: Sword of Storms	Additional Voices	TV movie
2007"present	Robot Chicken	Indiana Jones Han Solo Steve Martin Astro Boy Additional Voices
2007	Family Guy	Jimmy Smits	Episode: "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One" "No Meals on Wheels"
	Robot Chicken: Star Wars	Han Solo C-3PO Imperial Probe Droid	TV movie
	Legion of Super Heroes	Karate Kid Nemesis Kid	Episode: "The Karate Kid"
2008	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II	Han Solo General Veers	TV movie
	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Destination Imagination	Blooregard Q. Kazoo (Bloo) Captain Francis
	Phineas and Ferb	Additional Voices	Episode: "Out to Launch"
2008"present	Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales	Lightning McQueen	Main role
2010	Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III	Han Solo	TV movie
2010"present	MAD	Nicolas Cage Indiana Jones Edward Cullen Wolverine Han Solo Sir Topham Hatt Robbie Shapiro Blue Beetle Dave Seville Hal Jordan Johnny Blaze Michael J. Fox Mister Fantastic Bilbo Baggins Jon Arbuckle Additional Voices
	Adventure Time	Frog Lenny Ripped Lumpy Mr. Candy Cane
2010-2012	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	General 'Thunderbolt' Ross	Episodes: "Hulk Versus the World" "Nightmare in Red" "The Deadliest Man Alive"
2011	G.I. Joe: Renegades	Heavy Duty Hershel Dalton	Episode: "Cousins"
2012	Cartoon Network 20th Anniversary	Blooregard Q. Kazoo (Bloo)	TV movie
	Super Best Friends Forever	Superman Solomon Grundy	Episodes: "Grounded" "Don't Fight Girls"
	Swampy's Underground Adventures	Swampy	Main role
2012"present	Gravity Falls	Deputy Durland	Recurring role
2013	Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld	Prince Topaz Skeleton	Episodes: "Level One: Your Quest Begins" "Level Four: The Turquoise Cave"
	Wander Over Yonder	Lord Hater	Main role

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2003	Tales of Symphonia
2004	The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
	Doom 3
	Terminator 3: The Redemption	John Connor Additional Voices
	Shark Tale	Shark Diner #1 Dolphin Cop #2 Whale Washer #2
	EverQuest II	Generic Racial Ecology Arven Oshus
	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater	Additional Voices
2005	God of War	Boat Captain
	Madagascar	King Julien XIII
	Destroy All Humans!	Additional Voices
	X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse	Grizzly
2006	Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII	Incidental Characters
	Over the Hedge	Possum #1 Rat #1 Chihuahua #1
	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow	El Grande, Pequeño Nassau Villager Male #1 Black Smoke James' Crew Additional Voices
	Monster House	Reginald "Skull" Sjulinskii
	Avatar: The Legend of Aang	Additional Voices
	Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam	Budd
	The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king	Morgomir
	Final Fantasy XII	Basch fon Ronsenburg
2007	God of War II	Boat Captain
	Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories	Marluxia
	Power Rangers: Super Legends	Green Galaxy Ranger Green Samurai Ranger
	Cars Mater-National Championship	Lightning McQueen
	Lost Odyssey	Kaim Argonar
2008	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian	Additional Voices
	Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy
	The Incredible Hulk	X-Ray Army Soldier Bi-Beast's Top Head
	Lego Batman: The Videogame	Alfred Pennyworth Commissioner Gordon
	Call of Duty: World at War	US Soldier
	Dissidia Final Fantasy	Judge Gabranth
	Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	Universal Petroleum
2009	Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall	Bloo
	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days	Marluxia
	Ghostbusters	Additional Voices
	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
	Batman: Arkham Asylum	Dr. Stephen Kellerman Lunatic #2
	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2	Steven Hudak/Scorcher Cable
	Undead Knights	Romulus Blood
	Cars Race-O-Rama	Lightning McQueen
	Dragon Age: Origins	Sloth Demon Thane Shartan Innkeeper Ser Blackstone Experienced Dwarf Male Mystical Elf Male Dwarven Commander Fade Beresaad Fade Dwarf House Dace Mercenary Dust Town Beggar Orzammar Noble Lake Calenhad Scholar Tapster's Patron Orzammar Commoner
	Avatar: The Game	Dalton Na'vi RDA
2010	Mass Effect 2	Additional Voices
	Lost Planet 2
2011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	Judge Gabranth
	Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion	Bloo Samurai Jack Captain Planet
	Infamous 2	Militia Ice Guys Male Pedestrians
	Cars 2	Lightning McQueen
	Captain America: Super Soldier	Red Skull (Johann Schmidt)
	Nicktoons MLB	Danny Phantom
	X-Men: Destiny	Cameron Hodge Additional Voices
	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution	Commisar Lord Corrupt Guardsman Da Grot Heretic Krom Maso Mr. Nailbrain Plague Marine Ronahn
2012	Darksiders II	Kargon Prince of Darkness
	Ice Age: Continental Drift- Arctic Games	Manny
2013	Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix	Marluxia
	Deadpool	Mister Sinister Peter Stormthrower/Phaser Pizza Guy