John Hasler (born in Barking, London, England, on 21 April 1974) is an English actor and voice actor who joined the English voice cast of Thomas & Friends in The Adventure Begins. He took over the roles of Thomas and Rheneas from Ben Small.
Hasler is best known for his appearance as T-Shirt in the children's TV series T-Bag. Other credits include "Gnomeo and Juliet" (animated by Arc Productions), "Toot the Tiny Tugboat", "Teenage Fairytale Dropouts", "Go Jetters", "The Legends of Treasure Island", and two of HiT Entertainment's other shows; "Mike the Knight" and "Fireman Sam".
Hasler left the series after production ended on Series 24, though he still continues to voice Thomas for the official YouTube channel shorts and other promotional material.
Voices
UK
- Thomas (2015-2021)
UK/US
- Rheneas (2016)
Online videos and additional content
Songs
Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure
- Never Overlook a Little Engine (performed)
Series 19
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas (performed)
The Great Race
- Will You Won't You (performed)
- Streamlining (performed)
- You Can Only Be You (performed)
- Be Who You Are, and Go Far (performed)
Journey Beyond Sodor
- Somebody Has to be the Favourite (performed)
- Who's Thomas? (performed)
- The Hottest Place in Town (performed)
- I Want To Go Home (performed solo)
- The Most Important Thing is Being Friends (performed)
Big World! Big Adventures!
- Where in the World is Thomas? (performed)
- Wake Up (performed)
- We're Friends (performed)
- Sometimes You Make a Friend (performed solo)
Series 23
- Don't Stop (performed)
Miscellaneous
- A Thomas Birthday Wish (performed)
- Happy Birthday to You (performed solo)
- Cleaning Up (performed)
- Percy! (performed)
- Tunnels, Bridges, Tracks and Hills (performed)
- The Wheels on the Train (performed)
- Chuff, Chuff, Chuff Along (performed)
- If You're Happy and You Know It (performed)
- Another Day on Sodor (performed solo)
- Old McColl's Farm (performed solo)
- Twinkle, Twinkle Sodor Sky (performed)
- My Name is Thomas (performed)
Filmography
Films
Television
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Trivia
- He and his family attended the Blue Carpet premiere events of Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure on 12 July 2015, The Great Race on 22 May 2016 and Big World! Big Adventures! on 7 July 2018.
- As a child actor, Hasler co-starred in Breakout along with Simon Nash, who voiced Ten Cents in TUGS.
- Hasler is the second UK narrator to voice a character after Mark Moraghan, and the third overall after Michael Brandon and Mark Moraghan.
- From 2018 to 2021, when Thomas became the narrator, Hasler had been the only UK cast member to date not to narrate an episode for the US dub. Due to the twenty-fourth series being the final series of Thomas & Friends, he and Joseph May are the final narrators for the series in the UK and US dubs, respectively.
- He and Pierce Brosnan are the only UK narrators not to be from Liverpool.
- He and Lee Pressman both worked on T-Bag.
- According to a Twitter conversation, Hasler's favourite project was Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure.
Gallery
John Hasler and Lee Pressman on the set of "T-Bag Strikes Again"
John Hasler with Lee Pressman
John Hasler in the behind the scenes of The Great Race
John Hasler in the behind the scenes of Journey Beyond Sodor
John Hasler at the Big World! Big Adventures! Premiere