Actor

1974-06-19 · United States · Male

57 series in the catalog

Larry Clarence "Bumper" Robinson II is an American actor. He is best known for his voice roles as Damas in Jak 3, Bumblebee and Blitzwing in Transformers: Animated, Rook Blonko and various other characters in Ben 10: Omniverse, and Falcon in various media.

Career

Robinson's first theatrical break came as the son of O. J. Simpson's character in the 1983 television film Cocaine and Blue Eyes. Years later, he portrayed a young Simpson in The O. J. Simpson Story (1995).

In the 1980s, Robinson played Zammis in Enemy Mine, Clarence in Amen, Jonah Carver in Days of Our Lives and a recurring role as Leon in NBC's Night Court. He has made appearances in The Jeffersons, Gimme a Break!, Hill Street Blues, Matt Houston, Cagney & Lacey, Webster, Punky Brewster, The Facts of Life and Family Matters. He began his voice-over career in The Flintstone Kids as Philo Quartz, followed by work in Scooby-Doo, among others.

Robinson's career continued into the 1990s, with work on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the FOX television film Generation X as Mondo, and shows like Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, The Client, Touched by an Angel, The Steve Harvey Show, Sister, Sister and The John Larroquette Show. He earned rave reviews for his performance as Jackie Jackson in ABC's miniseries, The Jacksons: An American Dream, after which he joined the cast of A Different World as Dorian Heywood. He also played Jared Harris in Guys Like Us, Marcus Miller in The WB's Three, a recurring role as Ivan Ennis in Living Single and Marcus Wentworth in UPN's Grown Ups.

In 2001, Robinson starred alongside Phylicia Rashad in the PBS film The Old Settler. Not long after, he starred in an American-Chinese produced action series called Flatland, with Dennis Hopper which was filmed in Shanghai. He joined the cast of Sabrina the Teenage Witch in 2003, after which he headed to New Mexico to star in Death Valley.

He has appeared in CSI: NY, Bones, Jane Doe: Yes I Remember It Well, Roommates, Alcatraz and BET's The Game.

In addition, Robinson is also a prominent voice actor with roles in animated films and television shows such as Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Pinky and the Brain, Futurama, Brother Bear, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He also provided the voices of Bumblebee, Blitzwing, Porter C. Powell, and Blackout in Transformers: Animated. From 2012 to 2014, Robinson voiced Rook Blonko in Ben 10: Omniverse.

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