Bill Corsair is Rhode Island born. He's the original voice of the "Talking G.I. Joe" doll, for Hasbro Toys. A Vietnam Combat Veteran with the First Cavalry Division, he was a Staff Sergeant based at the forward headquarters, Phuc Vin, RVN.
Corsair, a broadcast personality for decades and radio talk show pioneer, has a 20-year listing (1974-1994) in the Guinness Book of World Records via CBS O&O WCAU-AM & TV show. He was Philadelphia's "Humanitarian of the Year" in 1976, the Bicentennial. Bill and wife, Janis, were given the Key To The City of Hartford, CT in 1978 where the Corsairs co-hosted a live, weekday, studio audience, entertainment/information morning talk show for Post Newsweek from 1977-1979.
Janis and he are established working actors and voiceover talent with significant credits in film, television and theater. Bill was the recipient of a National SAG Award for his performance in the star-studded film adaptation of "Chicago” for his voicing of the "1930's Newsreel Announcer.”
Bill and Janis are both active in veteran and conservative causes.
Bill Corsair
Oliver Stone Scrooges New York Actors
by Bill CorsairDuring the best of times, acting in film is a precarious way to make a living. Not complaining just stating a fact. Medical insurance and pension benefits are not guaranteed to Union (SAG) members, but qualified for by accruing, yearly, ever increasing amounts of earnings. The more you work the more likely you are to qualify and, conversely, the less you earn the more likely you are to find yourself and your family without.
Enter humanitarian, caring and defender of the common man, Oliver Stone.
Stone wrapped shooting “Wall Street 2,” here in Manhattan, a couple of weeks ago. He decided that his monied (in some cases multi-millionaire) friends deserved the jobs, that might have made the difference between real SAG actors (or as he identifies them, “starving actors”) qualifying for pension and medical insurance or going without. (more…)
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