Arthur Napier Burghardt is an American retired actor, best known for portraying Jack Scott on the soap opera One Life to Live. In animation, he is known for lending his deep bass voice as Devastator in The Transformers; Destro, Stalker and Iceberg in G.I. Joe; and Pete (as the character's first and so far only Black performer) in several Disney video games.
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His first movie appearance was as the Great Ahmed Kahn in Network (1976). Notable voice roles include Destro in the animated series G.I. Joe and Devastator on The Transformers. He also lent his voice to Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man. and Turbo in Challenge of the Gobots. Burghardt appeared in the first episode of the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara in 1984. He also appeared in the series premiere of the short-lived 1991 sitcom Good Sports with Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett. In 1997, he was the voice of "Cy" in the family science fiction movie Star Kid and portrayed Laurant in the 2001 TV series Los Luchadores.
Burghardt played a commando in the early 1990s video game Night Trap. In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, he voiced Mannoroth and Grom Hellscream in 2002, and later in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, he reprised his role as Mannoroth. In 2010, he voiced Thanatos in the video game God of War: Ghost of Sparta and afterwards retired that year.
The fictional Arthur Burghardt Expressway in the 8th season Seinfeld episode, "The Pothole", is named after Burghardt.
In 2016, Burghardt joined the convention circuit with his representative CelebWorx. He appeared at Long Beach Comic Con.