Dan Gilvezan was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended Webster University, a  Midwestern fine arts college, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama. Upon  graduation he embarked on a national tour bringing the classics to theaters and civic  auditoriums all over the country. After completing the tour he worked in repertory  theater, summer stock, children’s theater, and dinner theater all over the eastern  seaboard.

Upon arriving in Los Angeles Dan found work voicing characters in a variety of  animated series, such as Spider-Man/Peter Parker on NBC’s “Spider-Man and His  Amazing Friends,” Bumblebee, on the original “Transformers” animated series. He also  provided voices in other series like, “GI Joe,” “Jem and the Holograms,” “Sectaurs,”  “Dino-Riders,” “Spiral Zone,” “Pound Puppies,” “The Jetsons,” “Rugrats,” “Scooby-Doo,”  “Talespin,” “The Real Ghostbusters,” “Family Dog,” “Fantastic Four,” “The Tick,” “Grim  and Evil” and many, many others.

He has also lent his voice to numerous video games, two of his more prominent  roles being Spider-Man 2099 in “Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions,” and reprising one  of his most recognizable roles as G1 Bumblebee in “Transformers: Devastation.”

No stranger to on-camera television, Dan has appeared as a guest-star or recurring  character on “Desperate Housewives,” “Bones,” “NYPD Blue,” “Boston Legal,” “The  Bernie Mac Show,” “Third Rock From the Sun,” “Sabrina, the Teenaged Witch,”  “Diagnosis Murder,” “Step by Step,” “She-Wolf of London,” “Murphy Brown,” “Perfect  Strangers,” and many others. His recent most role was as Bette Davis’ agent in the  critically acclaimed television mini-series, “Feud.” He currently appears in a recurring  role as Marcus the rodeo announcer on “Baskets,” the Zach Galifianakis’ comedy series  airing on the FX network.

As many with many other actors, Dan’s first love is the theater. In addition to  appearing in many plays in the Los Angeles area over the years, he earlier this year  performed the role of the father, Norman Apple, in the Santa Monica Playhouse  production of “Almost Perfect.” Thirty years previous, during the play’s premiere run, he  assayed the role of Mike, Norman Apple’s older son. Age has a way of affecting one’s  choice of roles.

Dan has written several books including “Bumblebee & Me: Life as a G1  Transformer,” a memoir of his time working on that seminal series, as well as three novels, “Drowned in the Grenadine,” a fictionalized account of his experiences working  as an actor in Hollywood, “Soul,” a fantasy novel that takes place on Earth, in Heaven  and a few places in between and “Dead Money,” a detective novel.