John Sachs
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John Sachs (born 3 May 1957) is a British television presenter, voiceover and commentator. He narrated the original series of Gladiators, and was a long time DJ on London's radio station Capital London.
Sachs spent 12 years on Capital FM, where he won Variety Club ILR Presenter of the Year and Silver at the World Radio awards in New York. He has also worked at Jazz FM (now Smooth FM), BBC Radio 2, and Y100 in Florida, United States. His television credits include Gladiators, 4 Square, Take Your Pick!, The Brian Conley Show and Dancing on Ice.
He has worked on a variety of television and radio adverts. He was also a presenter on Swansea Sound in Swansea, Wales. Sachs founded Talking Heads Productions in 1993, making television and radio commercials. He has been the voice of Disney Videos UK – voicing most of the previews from the company (including the promos he advertised: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) and The Rescuers (1977). He also advertised three more Disney videos with The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Oliver and Company (1988), Cinderella (1950) and A Goofy Movie (1995).) until the early 2000s, along with HIT Entertainment from 1997 to 1999.
He is the son of Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.