Bill Ratner

William Gerald Ratner (born February 25, 1947) is an American voice actor, author and solo performance artist. He is best known as the voice of Flint in Hasbro's syndicated TV cartoon G.I. Joe.

Career Ratner is best known as the voice of Flint in Hasbro's syndicated animated series G.I. Joe. His voice was used in numerous film trailers, including Inside Out, Will Ferrell's Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Mike Myers's The Love Guru, Monsters vs. Aliens, and many more. He narrates documentaries on Discovery Channel, A&E, The Weather Channel, History, and others. Ratner voiced the narrator in the non-canon Ben 10 episodes "Gwen 10" and "Goodbye and Good Riddance". In addition, Ratner is also a voice-over announcer for television stations across the US.

His book, Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth behind Media's Effect on Children and What To Do About It, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award and a Next Generation Indie Book Award and Eric Hoffer Award finalist, is published by Familius. His personal essays are published in the Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review and The Missouri Review.

Ratner's performances of his personal essays are featured on KCRW's Strangers and National Public Radio's The Business. and Good Food. He tours nationally for storytelling conferences, and festivals, is a regular competitor in The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles, is a nine-time Moth StorySLAM Winner, a National Storytelling Festival Story Slam teller-Jonesborough TN, a National Storytelling Network storyteller.

He is a contributing author of the book Secrets of Voiceover Success. He is a two-time winner of "Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension" – Solo Category for "Bobbywood: Whatever Happened to Bobby the Bellboy?" in 2013 and Voices in my Head: A Life. He is a member of Actors Equity Association, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) where he teaches voiceover.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 1987 G.I. Joe: The Movie Flint Direct-to-video 1989 Lobster Man from Mars Additional voices 2004 Fat Albert Announcer

Television Year Title Role Notes 1982 Meatballs & Spaghetti Additional voices Unknown episodes 1985–86 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Flint, Strato-Viper, Chuck, Cobra Officer, Cobra Trooper, Driver 45 episodes 1986 The Transformers Dashiell R. Faireborn / Flint Episode: "The Killing Jar" 1997 Ah! Real Monsters Stu Simmons Episode: "Clockwise/Gromble Soup" 2005 Family Guy Flint Episode: "North by North Quahog" 2006, 2008 Ben 10 Narrator, Baddie #2 2 episodes 2006, 2009, 2019 Robot Chicken Flint, Gomez Addams, Thing's Boss, Game Host, Crime Boss, George Henderson 3 episodes 2007 Back to You Announcer 2 episodes 2008–present Air Emergency Narrator Documentary9 episodes 2010–16 I (Almost) Got Away with It Narrator Documentary93 episodes 2011–13 Behind Mansion Walls Narrator Documentary39 episodes 2011–16 Air Disasters Narrator 150 episodes 2014 Community Flint (voice) Episode: "G.I. Jeff"

Video games Year Title Role 1992 King's Quest VI Narrator 2004 Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2 Additional voices 2007 Mass Effect Ambassador Donnel Udina, Hollis Blake, Krogan Patron 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV The Men's Room Announcer, Republican Space Rangers Announcer, Split Sides Announcer, Commercial 2009 Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned The Men's Room Announcer, Republican Space Rangers Announcer 2009 Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony The Men's Room Announcer, Republican Space Rangers Announcer 2010 Mass Effect 2 Donnel Udina, Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner 2012 Mass Effect 3 Donnel Udina, Angry Krogan Vet 2013 Grand Theft Auto V Republican Space Rangers Announcer 2016 Final Fantasy XV Additional voices 2025 Rosewater Captain Stokes, General LaPorte, Prospector, Rupert Treadway