History of Voice Acting in the world

I am interested in voice acting.In Japan, voice acting is famous work and a lot of voice actors and actresses.

I want to state the history of voice acting in the world.But, voice acting is not  major work in foreign countries.In most cases, the actor and the narrator are voice acting as a side job. However, in South Korea, the broadcasting station has a TV drama team (Voice Acting Division).


It is said that "Old Kentucky Home", "Oh Mabel", etc. in 1924 are early talkie animation. At that time, Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" was also published.And Mickey Mouse's voice is played by Walt Disney.

Charles Martinet is as a famous foreign voice actor. He is performing the voice of main character Mario of the Mario series which is famous game series.He also play Luigi, Toad and Wario.

Many voice acter play original animation's character.Japanese animation has been exported to many overseas.So they often do the dubbing of Japanese anime.For example, Greg Ayres, Johnny Yong Bosch ,John Burgmeier, Dan Green, Kate Higgins are performing many Japanese anime's character.