Larry Kenney

Larry is an American voice actor and radio personality In 1963 Kenney began his radio career at the age of 15 as a disc jockey at WIRL in Peoria Illinois After WIRL he worked at WOWO Fort Wayne Indiana WKYC AM now WTAM Cleveland Ohio 19701973 WHN New York City WYNY New York City WJJD now WYLL Chicago Illinois and WKHK now WLTW New York City until 1972 He is also known for his voice work as LionO on the 1980s RankinBass cartoon ThunderCats and Karate Kat a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of The Comic Strip He was also the voice of Bluegrass in SilverHawks and Dolph in TigerSharks Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird In recent years he has reprised this role for humorous ThunderCats references on the animated series Family Guy In the 2011 ThunderCats animated series on Cartoon Network Kenney returned to the series but as Claudus LionOs and Tygras father He was the announcer for The Beat 1027 in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV and KTI Radio in the LA Noire He also gives the voice to JB Cripps in Red Dead Online the online component of Red Dead Redemption 2 In 2008 he was hired to do an impersonation of Mark Twain for a gala held by the Mark Twain House and Museum