Claes Ivar Ljungmark (born on March 14th, 1954) is a Swedish actor who has narrated Thomas & Friends since the eighth season.
He is best known for performing in theatre business in his home country, such as William Shakespeare's "King John" at the Uppsala City Theatre in 2000. He is also known for appearing in television shows, such as "Andra Avenyn", "Vägg i vägg", and "Rosenbaum". He is also known for voicing Denzel Crocker from "The Fairly OddParents", Bartemius Crouch Sr. from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", Kowalski from the "Madagascar" series and Iroh from "Avatar: The Last Airbender".
Trivia
- Both he and Takeshi Aono played King Harold from the "Shrek" films in their respective languages.
- Agnieszka Kunikowska, Caspar Phillipson, Gerald Schaale, Aryeh Cherner, Radovan Vaculík, Kari Tamminen, Jan Kulczycki, Dulce Guerrero, Philippe Catoire, Ulises Maynardo Zavala, Kenji Utsumi, Hadar Shachaf Ma'ayan, Josh Klausner, Jon Kabira, Yoram Yosefsberg, Hisao Egawa, Tesshō Genda and Jim Cummings have also worked on "Shrek".
- Both he and Hiroshi Iwasaki voiced Denzel Crocker from "The Fairly OddParents" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Mieczysław Morański played Iroh from "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in their respective languages.
- She, Geneviève Déry, Robert Wilfort, Rolando de Castro and Leyla Rangel have all worked on "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".
- Ruth Toscano, Nathan Clarke, Simon Fisher-Becker, César Izaguirre, César Árias, Katsuji Mori, Yigal Mizrachi, Hideyuki Umezu, José Luis Orozco, Jesse Grimm, Aryeh Cherner, Zuzanna Galia, Ángel Amorós, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Octavio Rojas, Scott Maurstad, John Hurt, Humberto Vélez, Jorge Santos, Irwin Daayán, Masashi Ebara, Blas García, Dov Reiser, Albert Cohen, Hadar Shachaf Ma'ayan, Zvika Schwartzberg, Jamie Campbell Bower, Thomas Fritsch, Norma Iturbe, Rob Rackstraw and Timothy Bateson have also starred in the "Harry Potter" films. Angela Kyriacou and Eddie Redmayne also had roles in it's prequel "Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them".
