Yesterday November 6, 2006 I received an email from a gentleman named Carlos Reboreda who explained to me that he came across my website and thought I might be interested to know that he did the voice over work in Spain for Simon & Simon in the 80's as AJ Simon. I emailed him back and I asked him for his permission to add this info tidbit for other Jameson Parker fans who would like to read this ~ he graciously gave me his permission and said he will let us know of any stories he recalls ~ he told me he had a lot of fun doing this job for the voice over ~ his email to me is below and he also gave permission to use his email in case any other fans would like to email him.

Hi Jeanne!
the mail you can show is reboreda@gmail.com OK, this is the story about my voice overin' on Simon and Simon..
First of all, you should know that in Spain we speak 4 different languages, depending on the area where we live, of course, we all speak Spanish, but on the Barcelona (Catalonia) area they speak Catalan, a language between Spanish and French; The basque, which is a very rare language, nobody knows from where it comes. Basque is spoken in the Basque country, north of Spain, close to the French border and Galego, which is my second language. Galego is the language from Galicia, north of Spain, close to Portugal. Our language is between Spanish and Portuguese.

Why do I explain all this long story? Because my voice over was in Galego for our regional TV network.. this is as if it were a state channel in US.

I worked since I was 20 years, now I'm 46 in radio and TV... and I did my first voice acting in June, 1988.

Simon and Simon arrived to the studio on September 88 and they called me to voice over an small character, like a waiter or something like that. BUT, for some reason, all the voice actors were very busy at that moment, so after 5 guys who said "no" to that work, the art director said: "Hey, what if we make an audition to that new guy, that Carlos and see if he can be the voice actor for AJ Simon?"

So, you see how my life changed in a few hours? Instead of dubbing a waiter, policeman or small character I had the chance to dub Mr.Jameson Parker!!! A guest character!!!

The audition worked perfect and I begin the job on September 1988... We had a lot of fun, because Simon and Simon was that kind of TV series which makes you smile a lot of times, specially Rick Simon, lets be honest, huh? Anyway, I had a lot of fun dubbing AJ, who I dubbed a few times later on a couple of movies.

Jameson Parker was a great oportunity to me and he opened a lot of doors to my voice acting career; at the present time I borrow my voice to Bruce Willis, Jeff Bridges, Jeff Daniels, Val Kilmer, Alec Baldwin and many others...

My favourite episode? Hmmmm... it has been 18 years ago... but I remember one who AJ pretends to be a Tax Inspector which was really a crack. Very difficult to dub...

Well, there are a lot of stories, and I will try to remember more and forward them to you with pleasure..

Have a great day!!

Carlos

Disclaimer ~ This information was emailed to me and I have taken the precaution that it is a truthful statement to the best of my knowledge ~ any statement which proves to be false is not of my knowledge and will be removed