Voice actor Tom Kane, best known for voicing the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars series and The Powerpuff Girls, died at the age of 64 on Monday.
Speaking to TMZ, his representative Zach McGinnis said, “Though his voice may now be silent, the characters, stories, and love he gave to the world will live on forever,” McGinnis said.
“But beyond the incredible career was an extraordinary man. Tom was a devoted husband and father who, alongside his wife, built a loving family of nine children, three biological and six welcomed through adoption and fostering.”
In 2020, his daughter Sam released a heartbreaking statement that he had a stroke which rendered him unable to speak.
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She said “Our family wanted to share why my dad has been MIA (Missing In Action). About two months ago he had a left side stroke that gave him right sided weakness and damage to the speech center of his brain. This means right he cannot efficiently communicate verbally, nor read or spell. He is still competent and very much himself, but can only get out a few words right now.”
Reacting to her statement, Mark Hamill who starred as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars franchise, wrote at the time, “Tom Kane is an enormously gifted actor & a genuinely nice person. I look forward to him making a complete & full recovery. I know the Voice-Over Community & his countless fans feel exactly the same way. Sending love to him & the entire Kane family. “
Tributes poured in for the late actor as soon as the news regarding his death surfaced online.
