Zbigniew Konopka (born in 1964) is a Polish actor who voices characters in the Polish narration of Thomas & Friends.
He is best known for voicing Aku from "Samurai Jack", Zeebad from "The Magic Roundabout (Doogal)", Unicron from "Transformers Prime", Speedy McAllister from "Chuggington", Iron Will from "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic", Antauri from "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!", Mr. Moustachio from "Astro Boy", and is the current voice of Yogi Bear.
Voices
- Salty (fourteenth season onwards)
- Butch
Trivia
- Both he and Enrique Cervantes voiced Dr. Nefario from the "Despicable Me" series in their respective languages.
- Agnieszka Kunikowska, Oliver Rohrbeck, Jarosław Boberek, Miłogost Reczek, and Kenji Utsumi have also worked on "Despicable Me".
- Both he and Keith Wickham voiced Ronald the Rhinoceros from "64 Zoo Lane" in their respective languages.
- He, Takeshi Aono, Alfonso Ramírez and Bernd Stephan voiced Tazuna from "Naruto" in their respective languages.
- Also, both he and Hideo Ishikawa voiced Itachi Uchiha from the same show.
- Also, both he and Herman López voiced Pakkun from "Naruto" in their respective languages.
- Christos Topoulos, Henning Nöhren, Lennardt Krüger, Christian Stark, Tobias Schmidt, Christian Rudolf, Fabian Harloff, Robert Kotulla, Konstantin Graudus, Merete Brettschneider, Tim Kreuer, Oliver Böttcher, Robert Missler, Patrick Bach, Jürgen Holdorf, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Joshy Peters, Sascha Draeger, Michael Bideller, Joey Cordevin, Volker Hanisch, Nils Rieke, Peter Weis, Rainer Schmitt, Jens Wendland, Martin May, Robin Brosch, Eberhard Haar, Angela Quast, Kai-Henrik Möller, Achim Schülke, Sonja Stein, Marion von Stengel, Jesse Grimm, Henry König, Lutz Herkenrath, Dagmar Dreke, Knud Riepen, Gerhart Hinze, Erik Schäffler, Jennifer Böttcher, Joachim Kretzer, Manuela Bäcker, Daniel Welbat, Klaus Dittmann, Martin Lohmann, Celine Fontanges, Till Huster, Ben Hecker, Matthias Klimsa, Simona Pahl, Monty Arnold, Anne Moll, Walter Wigand, Oliver Warsitz, Andreas Kleb, Benjamin Morik, Johannes Semm, Martin Brücker, Marcus Just, Achim Buch, Ivo Möller, Christian Strempler, Takuya Iwabata, Guillermo Rojas, Manuel Campuzano, Mayra Arellano, César Árias, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Salvador Reyes, Carlos Hernández, Gaby Ugarte, Diana Pérez, Timo Kinzel, Armando Coria, Chikara Osaka, Daiki Nakamura, Víctor Ugarte, Sergio Morel, Nadine Schreier, Arturo Mercado Jr., Taisuke Yamamoto, Keiko Nemoto, Tomohiro Tsuboi, Paco Mauri, Leyla Rangel, Masashi Ebara, Dulce Guerrero, Hisao Egawa, Mireya Mendoza, Katharina von Keller, Humberto Vélez, Kunihiro Kawamoto, Ryūji Nakagi, Tim Grobe, Rocío Garcel, Mayumi Asano, Shigenori Sōya, Naoki Bandō, Tammo Kaulbarsch, Kenta Miyake, Nobutoshi Canna, Masayuki Omoro, Zvika Schwartzberg, Héctor Emmanuel Gómez, Kaihiamal Martínez, Cezary Kwieciński, Benjamín Rivera, Eduardo Garza, Óscar Flores, Nozomu Sasaki, Mario Castañeda, Joanna Pach-Żbikowska, Bin Shimada, Dafnis Fernández, Moisés Iván Mora, Irwin Daayán, Gerardo Reyero, Anna Apostolakis, Javier Olguín, Janusz Wituch, Leszek Zduń, Sōichirō Hoshi, Paweł Szczesny, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Hiroaki Hirata and Noriko Shitaya also worked on it.
- Both he and Daisuke Gōri voiced Dim from "A Bug's Life" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Rokurō Naya voiced Century from "Iron Man: The Animated Series" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Philippe Catoire voiced Kago from "Tarzan 2" in their respective languages.
- Jukka Voutilainen, Rokurō Naya and George Carlin also worked on "Tarzan 2". There have also been several other voice actors that have worked on other Tarzan TV shows and films:
- Dário de Castro ("Tarzan")
- Alan Kennedy, Marianne Culbert, Travis Gagne, Kallan Kagan, Jason Reeves, Rob Pringle, Jazmin Playtis, Adam Black, Tigh Walker, Anna Wagner-Lopez, Ryan Quaglia and John Hickson ("Tarzan and Jane")
- Robin Smith ("Tarzan and the Lost Apes")
- John Hurt ("The Legend of Tarzan"; cut)
- Jukka Voutilainen, Rokurō Naya and George Carlin also worked on "Tarzan 2". There have also been several other voice actors that have worked on other Tarzan TV shows and films:
- He and TUGS voice actor Gary Chalk have both worked on Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper. There have been other voice actors that have appeared in Barbie films:
- Agnieszka Kunikowska ("Barbie: Fairytopia"), Ángel Amorós and Salty's Lighthouse voice actor Scott McNeil ("Barbie of Swan Lake")
- Mayumi Asano ("Barbie: Mermaidia")
- Alan Kennedy, Matthew Ahrens and Kallan Kagan ("Barbie and Her Sisters in a Pony Tale")
- Anna Apostolakis, Susan Roman and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Ian James Corlett and voice director Terry Klassen ("Barbie as the Island Princess")
- Joseph May ("The Barbie Diaries")
- Hikaru Midorikawa ("Barbie in the Nutcracker")
- Gadi Levy ("Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2")
- He, Analiz Sánchez, Mikołaj Klimek, Héctor Moreno, Enrique Cervantes, Susana Moreno, Michał Podsiadło, Claudia Motta, Javier Olguín, Simen Sand, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Justyna Bojczuk, Anna Gajewska, Ricardo Silva, Carlos Hernández, Ewa Serwa, Loretta Santini, Irina Índigo, Isabel Romo, Raúl Solo, Zuzanna Galia, Kim Seung-jun, Grzegorz Kwiecień, Jacek Król, Benedikte Kruse, Eduardo Fonseca, Annie Rojas, Sergio Morel, Elsa Covián, Julia Kołakowska-Bytner, Susa Saukko, Kenta Miyake, Joanna Pach-Żbikowska, Moisés Iván Mora, Mia Kadosh, Masashi Ebara, Igor Cruz, Norma Iturbe, Petri Hanttu, Hiroshi Iwasaki, Anna Apostolakis, Tiril Heide-Steen, Przemysław Stippa, Markus Bäckman, Leszek Zduń, Janusz Wituch, Talya Barkay, Edson Matus, Paweł Szczesny, Gerald Schaale, Leyla Rangel, Piotr Bajtlik and Tesshō Genda have all starred in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic".
- He, Alfredo Martínez, Ángel Amorós, Bartosz Martyna, Arto Nieminen, Salvador Serrano, Salvador Reyes, Paweł Szczesny, Anna Gajewska, Grzegorz Kwiecień, César Díaz Capilla, Jakub Szydłowski, Moisés Iván Mora, Talya Barkay, Yehonatan Magon, Susa Saukko, Józef Pawłowski, Mario Filio, Piotr Bąk, Dor Srugo, Tetsu Inada and Christian Strempler have all worked on "Transformers: Prime". Several other people have worked on other versions in the "Transformers" franchise:
- Alfonso Ramírez, Gerald Schaale, Eberhard Haar, Armando Réndiz, Ruth Toscano, Dário de Castro and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Scott McNeil, Ian James Corlett and Paul Dobson ("Transformers: Beast Machines")
- Alfonso Ramírez, Olga Hnidey, Walter Wiegand, Eberhard Haar, Robert Missler and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Scott McNeil, Ian James Corlett and Venus Terzo ("Transformers: Beast Wars")
- Hisao Egawa, Nir Ron, Ángel Amorós, Salvador Serrano, Krystyna Kozanecka, Grzegorz Drojewski, Robert Kotulla, Konstantin Graudus, Lennardt Krüger, Juan Navarro Torelló, Takaya Kuroda, Achim Schülke, Sascha Draeger, Jan Kulczycki, Janusz Wituch, Houko Kuwashima, Anna Apostolakis, Cezary Kwieciński, Hiroaki Hirata, Dariusz Odija, Houko Kuwashima, Eberhard Haar and Salty's Lighthouse voice actors Terry Klassen and Scott McNeil ("Transformers: Cybertron")
- Hisao Egawa, Rex Fang and José Luis Orozco ("the films")
- Nir Ron, Hiroaki Hirata and Isamu Yusen ("Robots in Disguise")
- Krystyna Kozanecka, Ryōtarō Okiayu, Kaihiamal Martínez, Mieczysław Morański, Cezary Kwieciński, Simone Crisari, Nobutoshi Canna and Jarosław Boberek ("Transformers: Energon")
- Kiyoyuki Yanada, Samuel Harjanne, Simone Crisari and Jarosław Boberek ("Transformers: Armada")
- Shinobu Satouchi ("Tranformers: Victory")
- Yūki Satō ("Transformers: Headmasters")
- Silas Borges, Kenta Miyake, Daiki Nakamura, Hideo Ishikawa, Ryōichi Tanaka and Ulisses Bezerra ("the animated series")
- Masashi Ebara ("Tranformers G1")
- Mia Kadosh and Pedro D'Aguillón Jr. ("Transformers: Rescue Bots")
- Kunihiro Kawamoto ("Tranformers: Robot Masters")
- Hiroko Emori ("Transformers: Super-God Masterforce")
