Robert Alan Echols was born in Michigan on 13th June 1951. His parents, Katherine and Henry, raised him and his 4 brothers and 1 sister in Los Angeles, California. He attended Granada Hills High School and was a musician. When he moved to Australia, he soon got a lot of voice over and boom operating jobs on various commercials and then he began to get small acting parts on the commercials and he acted in a joke segment in an Australian TV show called "Just Kidding!" He now lives in New York City.
