In Season 5's "Mutiny," George and Marsha plan an ocean voyage getaway, but to their dismay, discover that they've booked themselves on a freighter instead of a cruise ship. Making matters worse is the fact that a mutiny has broken out amongst the crew, which forces them to lend a hand in order to return to home in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
Presiding over the Owens' disastrous trip is Captain Peel, played by Daytime Emmy-nominated character actor and voice over talent Tony Jay. His deep, resonant voice made him a natural for the stage, television and radio in his native England and South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s; Jay relocated to the United States when the Royal Shakespeare Company's eight-and-a-half-hour production of "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" came to America in the 1980s. He settled into steady work as a performer in live-action projects including "Twins," "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and "Lois & Clark," and also animated features and TV.
Jay's voice acting work included "Time Bandits" (as the voice of the Supreme Being), and a slew of roles for Disney including "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King," and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," which provided him with his most substantive animation role as the villainous Judge Claude Frollo. Jay later narrated "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," voiced Shere Khan in "The Jungle Book 2," Lord Dregg in the original TV version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and numerous characters on "Rugrats," among other projects. Jay died after undergoing surgery to remove a non-cancerous tumor on his lungs on August 13, 2006.
