90s and 00s kids likely grew up hearing voice actors Jim Ward, Jeff Garcia, and Julie Mayfield across the cartoons and games of their youth.
It’s been a busy week, and a sad one, as video game and animation fans learned of the deaths of three well-known voice actors across the two mediums.
First was Jeff Garcia, a comedian who passed on Wednesday, December 10, at age 50. Garcia was best known for playing Sheen in Jimmy Neutron and Planet Sheen. After having a stroke and being hospitalized for pneumonia in November, he was hospitalized again earlier this week before being taken off life support.
Garcia reprised his voice acting roles as Pip in Barnyard and Rinaldo in Happy Feet for their respective video game tie-ins and Sheen in various Jimmy Neutron and Nickelodeon games, with his final voice role being Nicktoons & the Dice of Destiny from this past September.
That same day, Jim Ward passed at age 66 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s. Ward played Captain Qwark throughout Insomniac Games’ Ratchet & Clank franchise, along with Ben 10’s Diamondhead and Doug Dimmadome on Fairly OddParents. In 2021, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart became his final voice acting role and saw him play both Qwark and his alt-universe variant, Captain Quantum.
