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.