Josh R. Thompson

Josh Robert Thompson  is an actor and voice actor. He voices elephant one of the Ma Tembo from The Lion Guard: The Rise of Scar.

Early Life
Thompson grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, "raised by classic television." He would watch as actors became different characters and began to mimic them. At age eight, his grandmother bought him a Fisher-Price tape recorder that he used to create radio-style "shows", voicing the host and the guests. The following year, he performed on stage in Peter Pan at the Cleveland Play House.

During his junior year at Padua Franciscan High School, Thompson delivered one line for the school's production of Oklahoma! and walked off to laughter and applause. "Then someone backstage said, ‘They're clapping for you. They love you.' After that, I was hooked." Thompson and some of his classmates got a video camera and began making feature-length and short films, and television-style shows. He graduated from Padua in 1993.

Thompson moved to Los Angeles a few years later and performed on local television and as a stand-up comic while working toward his degree in TV, Radio and Film Production at California State University, Fullerton. He uses his middle name professionally because a "Josh Thompson" was already registered with the Screen Actors Guild.

Career
Actor, comedian and impressionist, Josh is perhaps best recognized for his role as robot sidekick Geoff Peterson on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson." His uncanny celebrity impressions and character voices can also be heard on "Family Guy," "American Dad," "The Cleveland Show" and in popular video games like "Final Fantasy" and "Call of Duty." On radio, Howard Stern devotees know him as the voice of "Fake" Arnold Schwarzenegger. In music, he appeared as 'Ahnuld' on Austrian Death Machine's second album, "Double Brutal." In film, he is the official voice double for Morgan Freeman and countless other celebrities. And in the UK, he is known as 'More Than Freeman,' television spokesman for More Than Insurance.

Stepping out from behind the microphone, Josh just completed his first starring role in an upcoming romantic comedy entitled "Nowhere Girl." As a stand-up comedian, he performs regularly in Los Angeles and around the country.