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Patrick Howard "Pat" Fraley (born February 18, 1949) is an American voice actor, who is best known as the voice of Krang, Casey Jones and numerous other characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is also a member of Voice and Speech Trainers of America.
His first role was in Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo where he did the voice of the Blue Scarab.
In 1985, he performed the voice of Ace and Barbecue on G.I. Joe and Hillbilly Jim on Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling. Also voiced Slick the turtle on ABC's The Littles. He latter did the voices of Coach Frogface and Sludge on Galaxy High School.
In 1987, Fraley voiced 19 characters on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Antrax, Krang, Casey Jones, Dippy, Baxter Stockman, Barney Stockman, Hans, Zak the Nutrino, Granitor, Burne Thompson, Kazuo Saki, Napoleon Bonafrog, Obento, Raptor, Ray, Scumbug, Slash, Titanus and Vernon Fenwick. In the 1980s and 1990s he appeared in guest roles on cartoons such as Denver, the Last Dinosaur, Rainbow Brite, Garfield and Friends, Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, Tom and Jerry Kids Show, Little Clowns of Happytown, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Filmation's Ghostbusters, Goof Troop, Bonkers, Gargoyles, Quack Pack, SpaceCats, Yo Yogi!, Batman: The Animated Series, Bobby's World, The Tick, James Bond Jr., The Mask: The Animated Series, The Little Mermaid and Angry Beavers.
John Luther ("Casey") Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroad engineer from Jackson, Tennessee, who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad (IC). As a boy, he lived near Cayce, Kentucky, where he acquired the nickname of "Cayce" which he chose to spell as "Casey." On April 30, 1900, he alone was killed when his passenger train, the Cannonball Express, collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night.
His dramatic death, trying to stop his train and save lives, made him a hero; he was immortalized in a popular ballad sung by his friend Wallace Saunders, an African American engine wiper for the IC.
Dark-haired Mary Joanna ("Janie") Brady, daughter of the boarding house owner, noticed Jones' remarkable appetite and the way he blushed whenever she flashed him a smile. Jones soon fell in love with her and decided to propose marriage. Since she was Catholic, he decided to be baptized on November 11, 1886 at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Whistler, Alabama, to please her. They were married at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Jackson on November 25, 1886, and bought a house at 211 West Chester Street in Jackson, where they raised three children. By all accounts he was a devoted family man and teetotaler.