John Cramer

John Cramer (born July 3, 1955) is an American voice actor, announcer, and narrator who has worked on promos, commercials, and animation. He has served as the announcer on TV shows such as *Before They Were Stars* and *Politically Incorrect* for ABC, *Meet My Folks* and *Who Wants to Marry My Dad* for NBC, and *Trivia Unwrapped* for the Food Network. He is the announcer for *Most Outrageous Moments* on NBC and *The Planet’s Funniest Animals* on Animal Planet.

Cramer is the announcer for the MTV Movie Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, and has provided his voice as the announcer for the Emmy Awards and Fox News' *The Half Hour News Hour*. His voice has also appeared in fake promo sketches on *The Jimmy Kimmel Show* and *Real Time with Bill Maher*. He announced the 1992 CBS game show *The Hollywood Game* and the Fox game show *Big Deal*. He performed voice-over work for the Game Show Network in 1996 and 1997 and announced *The Newlywed Game* and *The Dating Game* from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, he announced the short-lived revival of the game show *Twenty One*. He has also worked on other game shows, including *Pyramid with Donny Osmond*, *The Weakest Link*, and *Pet Star*. Since 2011, he has been one of the guest announcers for *Wheel of Fortune*. He announced the third (final) season of Nickelodeon's *BrainSurge*, titled *Family Brainsurge*.

Cramer is also the announcer for *Funny You Should Ask* and *We the People with Gloria Allred*, and provides general announcing duties for most of the productions of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.

In animation, Cramer has worked on projects for DreamWorks, including *Shrek*, *Spirit*, *Madagascar*, and *Over the Hedge*. For Disney, his work includes *Toy Story*, *Toy Story 2*, *Aladdin*, *Tarzan*, *The Lion King*, and *Lilo & Stitch*. He has also contributed to re-releases of Disney classics such as *Mary Poppins*, *Lady and the Tramp*, and *Sleeping Beauty*. He has voiced characters in *The Emoji Movie* and has worked on TV series such as *Rugrats* and *The Annoying Orange*.

Cramer has voiced video game characters, including Laszlo, Markal, and Cyrus in the 2006 game *Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate*, and Agrael in the 2007 game *Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East*.

He has done promo work for several cable networks, including The History Channel, Discovery Channel, USA, Comedy Central, Spike TV, and the Food Network. He is the promo voice for TVG, an interactive horse racing network, and portions of this work are shown on Fox Sportsnet. Cramer has also served as the announcer for specials such as *Miss USA* and *Miss Universe*, both on NBC, and the auto award show *Auto Rox* on SpikeTV.

Cramer has been the longtime voice of CBS2 in Los Angeles and recently began working for KESQ NewsChannel 3 in Palm Springs, an ABC affiliate and the #1 rated station in the market. He has performed numerous radio imaging jobs throughout his career, including work for Classical 103.5 WGMS in Washington, D.C., which helped the station become the #1 station in its market, an unusual achievement for a classical station.

Commercially, Cramer has been heard in campaigns for Acura, Conagra/Kid Cuisine, Budweiser, Mattel/Hot Wheels, Wendy’s, Jack in the Box, and Walmart, among others. He works extensively for DirecTV in both on-air and radio spots.