Martin Berger

 (born June 18, 1945) is a Canadian actor, mainly active in stage and screen but has a specialty in voice acting, and also does work as a voice director and ADR/dubbing director. His main "stomping grounds" is the city of but he has done work across  and the  as a  member.

Bio
Martin's parents came from where his brother Christopher was born, and his grandfather was a British soldier in World War I who moved to Liechtenstein after the war. In 1964, Martin, who was 18 years old at the time, returned to Canada with his brother Keith to live with his grandmother in after spending 6 years in West El Kadsre, where Keith was born. He attended in  outside.

Career
Martin started out as a radio DJ for CKAZ-FM, the famous FM jazz music station, in, but in 1972 got a job doing voice work in animations for the.

In 1977, Martin co-created and co-hosted Quad, made at in.

Although he has a versatile voice, being able to portray numerous kinds of roles, ranging from heroic to villainous to comedic to young to old, he is most recognized as Montgomery Moose of The Get Along Gang for the 1987 animated series and The Get-Along Gang Movie. He considers Montgomery to be "the one role I'm commonly recognized as", saying "Whenever I do the voice, even jokingly, somebody's like "Hey, I remember that character from my childhood!" and I'm just flattered." Martin would reprise Montgomery in both of 's direct-to-video movies (The Get-Along Gang Magic Movie and The Get-Along Gang: The Big Rock Candy Mountain Journey) and in Kids for Character: Moov'n & Groov'n.

Originally, he was set to voice Basil Stag Hare in Redwall and recorded the voice of Basil for some episodes of Season 1 and Basil's re-recorded dialogue in the 2000 video game, using a Brooklyn accent for both. However, all of Basil's dialogue in those season 1 episodes were re-recorded by Richard Binsley using a "WWII RAF fighter pilot" accent due to telling  that "I don't think Basil would sound like a New Yorker." Berger's voice for Basil is heard in the remastered version of "Sparra's Kingdom" due to Nelvana using the wrong version of the episode.

Martin is the voice of Six Flags Winnipeg's official mascot Leon the Otter, having voiced Leon since his 1985 debut. He mainly travels to to record Leon's dialogue for commercials (with commuter jet transportation chartered by Six Flags), but also records Leon's dialogue from his home studio in.

Outside of voice acting, Martin acts in live action film & TV productions and in theater, and is a musician & singer, playing the bass. Martin and his brother Christopher toured with in the 1990s. He is also a video artist and director of commercials & music videos.

Personal Life
In 1986, Martin married Kimmy Berger (née Matsuoka). Kimmy died in 2001 from complications after a caesarean section. The child she carried at the time, Anthony Floyd Berger, was delivered successfully. In 2005, Martin remarried to Georgiana Kuiper, a South African-born actress resident in. They divorced in 2011 and remain on friendly terms. In 2016, Martin became engaged to a Redwall fan artist from named Hannah Marsan. They married in 2017.

In 2011, his son Weston Berger was convicted of accidental attempted manslaughter for running down a cameraman at a motorcycle hill climb event on. He was later acquitted of all charges.

In 2018, with the permission of his daughter Bianca (née Jeff), he revealed that Bianca was transgender at and over his Twitter page.