James Kevin "Jim" Ward is a retired American actor and voice actor, known for his role as Captain Qwark in the Ratchet and Clank video games from 2002 to 2021, Chet Ubetcha and Doug Dimmadone in The Fairly Odd Parents, Angus in The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs, Professor Xavier in Wolverine and the X-Men, Diamondhead in Ben 10 and Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens, and Henry Peter Gyrich and Baron Strucker in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
For Disney, he provided the voice of the narrator in Playhouse Disney's show short, The Adventures in Nutrition with Captain Carlos, Grandpop Krank in Higglytown Heroes. He also voiced Dodger in the Oliver & Company Disney Read-Along, Torrance in Treasure Planet, River Spirit in the English dub of Spirited Away, and the additional voices in the English dub of Porco Rosso. He also did additional voices in Pixar films, such as Cars and Inside Out, as well as voicing Franklin in Toy Story Toons. In Hercules, he voiced the Ice Titan, though he is uncredited.
In 2021, Ward had to retire from acting as he was diagnosed with both COVID-19 and Alzheimer's.[1]
