There’s a strange, sad story behind the voice of ‘Jurassic Park’s Mr. DNA.
video game even made Mr. DNA a playable character, which led to the surreal sight of this giant cartoon DNA strand tooling round Isla Nublar on a motorbike.
Much of the credit for Mr. DNA’s memorable performance goes to the man who provided his folksy voice, actor Greg Burson. In the early 1990s, Burson was a busy voice artist and announcer in Hollywood. He was a protégé of Daws Butler, the actor who originated the voices of Hanna-Barbera characters like Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. When Butler passed, Burson assumed the role of Yogi and several other Butler characters.
Burson gave Mr. DNA the distinctive drawl of a Southern gentleman, but you won’t hear him as the character in any of his recent cameo appearances. That’s because Burson died in 2008, just a few years after an incident with police ruined his career.article from 2004 that’s cruelly titled “Voice of Yogi in Boozy Boo-Boo.” Burson was reportedly arrested “after he barricaded himself and held SWAT officers at bay.
Two women eventually came out of the house, saying a third woman was being held inside and that Burson had guns, cops said. When Burson didn’t emerge, officers evacuated neighbors, and a SWAT team surrounded the house before the third woman walked out. Burson eventually ended the 51/2-hour siege, surrendering without incident.’s article quotes police sources who say they were “not sure” what motivated the incident, but they do say that Burson was “very intoxicated when he was taken into custody.
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