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TIL actor/voice actor that voiced Skeletor, Alan Oppenheimer, has voiced many characters including Mighty Mouse, Falcor from The Neverending Story, and Thundarr the Barbarian. He's also related to Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the nuclear bomb.

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