Ted Thomas

Thomas Edward Juson July 11 1929 November 26 2022 known professionally as Ted Thomas was a Britishborn Hong Kong public relations manager broadcaster and prolific voice actor He founded the company Axis International in around 1963 to dub foreign films for studios looking for Englishlanguage dubs For the nearly two decades Axis operated it is said to have dubbed several hundred films into English typically with Thomas providing ADR direction and scripts written by Ron Oliphant who he led the company with Axis International recorded dubs for Shaw Brothers Toho Golden Harvest and various other studios inside and outside East Asia until around 1981 when the company fell apart due to dwindling voice talent and the formation of other Hong Kongbased English dubbing studios like Matthew Oram Ltd and Chase and Co later rebranded to Omni Productions Thomas continued public relations work following the closure of Axis International while still making occasional film and television appearances on camera and in voice acting through the 2000s Thomas retired to Thailand in the 2010s before passing away on November 22 2022 at the age of 93