Paul Rugg is a veteran American screen writer, producer, and voice actor who has worked extensively in the field of animation. His list of credits include writing for, co-producing, and playing the voice of the title character in Steven Spielberg Presents Freakazoid! More recently, he played the character Dark Lord Chuckles The Silly Piggy in the Disney series Dave The Barbarian.
Rugg recently created and directed The Sam Plenty Cavalcade of Action Show Plus Singing! with Mitch Schauer, on behalf of The Jim Henson Company; the series can only be seen onlne at this time. He also played the voice of Principal Rotwood in the Disney Channel Original series American Dragon Jake Long.
Rugg was once--along with Adam Carolla and John P. McCann (his co-producer on Freakazoid!)--an improvisational actor at the Acme Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, where he created the character Manny the Uncanny.
Rugg's first known voice job--and the first character he's been documented playing--was at KXLU, his college radio station, where he appeared sporadically as Marvin E. Quaas Nicky.
Rugg was recruited to the Warner Brothers Animation team headed up by Jean MacCurdy and Tom Ruegger, and was a big part of Warner Brothers' "Golden Age" in the 1990s. Rugg recently moderated a panel about some of the classic series produced during this time at Comic-Con in 2008. (Participants included Paul Dini, Jean MacCurdy, John P. McCann, and Andrea Romano)
Rugg has been nominated for several Emmys, and has received three. He lives up the coast from Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
External links
Sam Plenty
Paul Rugg at the Internet Movie Database
Interview with Paul Rugg
Paul Rugg at TV.com
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