Casey Kasem
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Kemal Amin Kasem, professionally known as Casey Kasem (born April 27, 1932), is a Lebanese American radio personality and voice actor.
Kasem is an occasional voice-over actor, perhaps best known as the voice of "Shaggy" in the Scooby-Doo cartoons. He has also done many other animated series such as the original Batman animated series and the later Super Friends series (both as sidekick Robin), and television specials such as Rankin-Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail.
For a period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kasem was the staff announcer for the NBC television network.
In addition to his voice-over duties, he is a renowned music historian and disc jockey best known for the weekly American Top 40 radio program from 1970 to 1988, and again from the late 1990s. He also hosted a spin-off TV show called America's Top 10 for a time in the 1980s. He also was the host of the short-lived American version of 100% in 1999. Most recently, he has appeared on infomercials pitching many CD compilations.
Kasem was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1992.
Kasem is currently married to actress/singer Jean Kasem. Their son, Mike Kasem, is also a voice-over actor.
Rehearsal recordings of a frustrated Kasem in an extended profane rant during his stint on American Top 40 has surfaced on the Internet, and later appeared on Negativland's single "U2".
