Jim Ward, the wildly versatile, Emmy-winning voice actor and impressionist known for his work on The Fairly OddParents , Ratchet & Clank and scores of other animated projects, has died. He was 66.

Ward died Wednesday at a memory care facility in Los Angeles after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his wife, actress Janice Ryan Ward, told The Hollywood Reporter .

Ward, who got his start as a tour guide at Universal Studios and as an impressionist in a two-man comedy act, also provided the voices for the Velociraptor XLR8 and the alien Diamondhead on the 2005-08 Cartoon Network series Ben 10 and for video games and movies in the franchise; played C-3PO in the Star Wars universe of direct-to video films and video games; and voiced Commissioner Gordon in Batman videos

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