Jaime Vega

Jaime Vega is a Mexican Muppeteer who puppeteered Bodoque, the Grouch on Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican version of Sesame Street in the 1980s. In a Mexican anti-smoking cartoon made for the series, he voiced a cigar-chomping owl.

Vega dubbed Richard Hunt's Scooter in the early Muppet movies & has been heard in various other Henson/Creature Shop dubs: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (as Professor Jordan Perry), The English Patient (as Sergeant Hardy), George of the Jungle (as a mercenary), & ''[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Good_Boy! Good Boy!]'' (as the Greater Dane's Assistant).

Vega has acted sporadically in soap operas since the 1970s, including Los Hermanos Coraje & Golpe Bajo. Earlier, in the 1960s, he was heard in the Kalimán radio serial, based on a Mexican comic book, as Charles Gunther. As a dubbing actor, he is 1 of the main Mexican voices of Danny DeVito (in What's the Worst That Could Happen & Death to Smoochy, among others) & has been heard as Ed Asner in The Bachelor, Peter Falk in Corky Romano, Joe Pesci in 'Casino, George Harris in The Interpreter, & James Gandolfini in The Mexican. Cartoon dubbing roles include Sinestro on Super Friends, Clyde on Pac-Man, Lou in Over the Hedge, Kamaji in Spirited Away, & PC Mackintosh in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Muppeteer Credits

 * Plaza Sésamo:  Bodoque