Join us this Saturday at 4 pm Pacific, 7 pm Eastern for a special edition of The Event Horizon. Actor, writer and producer Mark Ryan joins hosts Gene Turnbow and Susan Fox for a fascinating deep dive through his life and career, the art of acting for stage and film, and the remarkable personal experiences along the way.
About Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan has been combining his acting, singing, writing and Action Direction talents in an eclectic and successful international career ranging over 40 years.
He did several major musicals in London’s West End, spending 4 years in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit “Evita” playing “Magaldi” and “Che” under the direction of Broadway legend Hal Prince.
He originated the character of Nasir for the cult British TV series Robin Of Sherwood and has appeared in dozens of films and television series both in the US and UK. Mark is also an accomplished author and has written for DC Comics and created “The Greenwood Tarot”for Harper Collins.
He began working on the 2007 film Transformers during filming as the on-set voice of several different robots. This work continued throughout filming and into editing, prior to the actual casting of voice-over talent. He was then cast as the voice of the character Bumblebee. Ryan also voices Ironhide and Hoist for the Activision video game based on the film.
During 2008 he wrote and produced a musical adaptation of “Wuthering Heights” starring Jenn Korbee, directing the video “Women” for the project. In the fall of 2008 the online publisher, ComicMix, began running “The Pilgrim” written by Ryan and drawn by legendary graphic artist Mike Grell.
He continued voice-work on “Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen” into 2009, performing several characters and standing in for the robots during principal photography.
In May 2010, Ryan returned to work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, once again as the onset voice of the Autobots. Work on this third Michael Bay Blockbuster continued at locations across the US and also at Kennedy Space Center – Cape Canaveral. The film was shot in 3D with post production voice-work carrying on into the spring of 2011 at Bay Films and Ryan contributed uncredited military lines and voices to the final cut of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. in 2014 he also voiced the alien bounty-hunter “Lockdown” for the 4th Transformers movie: “Age of Extinction”.
His biography; “Hold Fast” was written with John Matthews and published in 2015. “Hold Fast” includes chapters on “Black Sails” in which he played Quartermaster “Hal Gates” and “Transformers: The Last Knight” in which he voiced “Bulldog” and “Hot Rod” and appeared as a British Army SAS Officer.
SHOW TIMES
Gene Turnbow and Susan Fox are your hosts. Here are the air times for this new episode of The Event Horizon:
| Saturday August 13 | 4 PM Pacific / 7 PM Eastern / 12 AM GMT | Sunday August 14 | 4 PM Pacific / 7 PM Eastern / 12 AM GMT |
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Thursday August 18 | 4 AM Pacific / 7 AM Eastern / 12 PM GMT | Saturday August 20 | 4 AM Pacific / 7 AM Eastern / 12 PM GMT |
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