Optimus Prime Actor Garry Chalk Diagnosed with Cancer

Chalk is well-known as the voice of Optimus Primal in Beast Wars/Beast Machines and Optimus Prime in Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon, and Transformers: Cybertron.

He later voiced Man-at-Arms in the reboot of He-Man and Sky Marshall Wade in Voltron Force.

On a video posted on Friday on Primal Parodies’ YouTube channel in which Chalk performs a parody song titled “Jingle Wars,” the description states that Chalk has been diagnosed with cancer, specifically Stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.