Acting
Jul 2, 1955
Glendale, California, USA
John Cramer
Acting
Biography
John Cramer (born July 3, 1955) is an American voice actor, announcer and narrator. He has worked on promos, commercials and animation. He worked 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 as well as Trivia Unwrapped for Food Network. He is the announcer on Most Outrageous Moments for NBC and The Planet’s Funniest Animals for Animal Planet. He is the announcer for the MTV Movie Awards and the MTV Video Music Awards, and has provided his voice as the announcer on The Emmy Awards as well as Fox News' The Half Hour News Hour. His voice can be heard periodically in fake promo sketches featured on The Jimmy Kimmel Show and Real Time with Bill Maher. He announced the 1992 CBS game show The Hollywood Game, as well as Big Deal for Fox. He did voice-over work for Game Show Network in 1996 and 1997. He announced on The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, he announced on the short-lived 2000 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 was one of the guest announcers for Wheel of Fortune. He announced for the third (final) season of Nickelodeon's game show BrainSurge, entitled Family Brainsurge. John Cramer is also the announcer for Funny You Should Ask, We the People with Gloria Allred, as well as general announcing duties for nearly all the other productions of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios. Cramer works on many animation projects, too. For Dreamworks, he worked on Shrek, Spirit, Madagascar, and Over the Hedge. For Disney, his work includes Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Aladdin, Tarzan, The Lion King, and Lilo & Stitch. He also worked on re-releases of Disney classics such as Mary Poppins, Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty. He has also worked on The Emoji Movie, as well as TV series including Rugrats and The Annoying Orange. He has voiced video game characters. For the 2006 video game Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate, he voiced Laszlo, Markal and Cyrus. For the 2007 video game Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East, he voiced Agrael. 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 of TVG, an interactive horse racing network. Portions of this are shown on Fox Sportsnet all across the country. Cramer also lent his talent as the announcer on specials such as Miss USA and Miss Universe, both on NBC and the auto award show Auto Rox for SpikeTV. Cramer has been the longtime the voice of CBS2 in Los Angeles and recently started working for KESQ NewsChannel 3 in Palm Springs, an ABC affiliate and the #1 rated station in the market. He has done numerous radio imaging jobs throughout his career. His imaging for Classical 103.5 WGMS in Washington, D.C. helped that station become the #1 station in their market, which is unheard of for a classical station. Commercially, Cramer has been heard on campaigns for Acura, Conagra/Kid Cuisine, Budweiser, Mattel/Hot Wheels, Wendy’s, Jack in the Box and Wal-mart, among others. He works extensively for DirecTV, in both on air and radio spots.
Feature Films (1)
Television & Series (6)
We the People with Gloria Allred is an American nontraditional/dramatized court show that debuted in first-run syndication on September 12, 2011. The series is presented by famed celebrity lawyer/attorney Gloria Allred, who also serves as co-producer with series creator Byron Allen through his production company Entertainment Studios, LLC. John Cramer does the narration of the judge's final verdict.
We the People with Gloria Allred
Comics Unleashed is a half-hour comedic talk show produced by the Entertainment Studios production company and hosted by Byron Allen, with John Cramer as announcer and DJ Cobra providing music support. The show features a panel of four guest comedians performing their standup bits thinly disguised as a sit-down chat show, sometimes preceded by a brief monologue or joke from Allen. Certain episodes were branded as Comics Unleashed: Hot Chocolate, as the featured comedians on those episodes were all of African descent.
Comics Unleashed
The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show that aired on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show. The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007. Cast and crew of the show included Kurt Long, Jennifer Robertson, Manny Coto, and Ned Rice. Longtime Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller was a regular contributor to the program with his "The Buck Starts Here" segment.
The ½ Hour News Hour
Nick Swardson's Pretend Time was a TV sketch comedy show created by and starring comedian and actor Nick Swardson. The show premiered on Tuesday, October 12, 2010, at 10 p.m. EST on Comedy Central and ran for two seasons, with the final first-run episode airing November 16, 2011.
