 On screen he was mostly seen as a baby faced heavy on several soap operas, from "The Young Doctors" to "The Restless Years" for the Australian Production company Reg Grundy Productions.His first US based voice work was on the Art Clokey-produced "Gumby" adventures remake 1986-87, where he voiced over twenty characters and provided script elements for the Australian themed episode "Kangaroo Express", in which he voiced all the Australian characters.He also created and painted many of the miniature props seen in that episode, as a skilled props maker

The next Australian themed project was "Walt Disney's The Rescuers Down Under", where he provided the radio voice and airplane captain and again ad-libbed the first lines of Australian dialogue heard in this film as the Cody character runs past the kitchen as the film begins.