Nick Jameson

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Nick Jameson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American character and voice actor. He has appeared in the television series The Critic, 24, Lost and in Star Wars: Clone Wars as the voice of Palpatine. He has over 114 film credits. He has also voiced in Spider-Man: The Animated Series as Richard Fisk and Morbius, and provided the voice of Max in the cult-classic video game Sam & Max Hit the Road. He also voiced Lloyd in "Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits". Recently, his voice was featured in the video game Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops as Colonel Skowronski.

Nick has also had a relatively lengthy career in music. He briefly became the unofficial fourth member of the British blues-rock band Foghat in the mid-70's, producing several of their albums as well, including Fool for the City, which spawned the band's biggest hit "Slow Ride." Nick's bass-playing is prominently featured on this track as well as the rest of the album. He has also released a couple of solo albums: Already Free (1977) and A Crowd of One (1986), the latter of which featured an obscure single "Weatherman," which barely scraped the bottom of the Hot 100 pop charts. The track has a breezy pop-rock feel that was fairly typical of the mid-80's. It is somewhat similar in terms of both melody and tempo to Mr Mister's big hit, "Kyrie," albeit with much lighter percussion. A year later, Jack Wagner recorded a cover version of the tune (under the title "Weatherman Says"), which performed slightly better on the charts than the original.

(source: http://www.foghat.com/fog_rec2/index.htm)

Grant Turck of Velocity Management manages Nick's career.

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Nick Jameson's Bacon Number is 2.