Jess Q. Harnell (born December 23, 1963 in Teaneck, New Jersey, U.S.), is an American voice actor, best known for portraying Wakko Warner and Walter Wolf on Animaniacs and Hunter on Road Rovers. He also voices Joe Tabootie on the Nickelodeon show ChalkZone, Crash Bandicoot in Crash Tag Team Racing and Crash of the Titans, Spyro the Dragon in Spyro: A Hero's Tail and Spyro: Shadow Legacy, Jerry in Totally Spies and Doctor Finklestein in The Nightmare Before Christmas ' s video game spin-offs, as well as in the Kingdom Hearts series replacing the late William Hickey who voiced him in the film. He currently voices Captain Hero on Comedy Central's animated comedy Drawn Together and is the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos. He also does the voices of Wooton Bassett and Bennett Charles on the radio drama Adventures in Odyssey, as well as Br'er Rabbit on the Disney TV show House of Mouse as well as in the Disney attraction, Splash Mountain (both at Disneyland and Walt Disney World). He was also a voice director on Eek! The Cat, What's New Scooby Doo, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Bruno the Kid, Terrible Thunderlizards, Life with Louie, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest and Where's Waldo. He also made a few appearances on Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, both on-screen and in voice-over.
He was most recently cast to voice the characters of Ironhide and Barricade in Michael Bay's Transformers, released on July 2, 2007, making him the only voice actor to play both an Autobot (Ironhide) and a Decepticon (Barricade).
Based the voice of Wakko Warner (from "Animaniacs" (1993)) on Beatle John Lennon (I).
He states in "Animaniacs Live" in the special features of Volume 1 of the DVDs that for Wakko Warner he did a John Lennon (I) voice, then when he saw the picture of Wakko and how small he was, he changed the voice by making it more high pitched, like a small John Lennon (I).
Originally he fashioned the voice of Wakko Warner, in Animaniacs, after John Lennon, but upon seeing the cartoon, played Wakko with more of a Ringo like voice.
Was the only voice actor to portray two characters in Transformers (2007). He was also the only voice actor to portray both an Autobot and a Decepticon in the film. He provided the voices for both, Ironhide and Barricade.
