I was so sad when I saw this! But Melendy Britt's post made me smile and cry at the same time! What an awesome person she is! I met here once here in Knoxville TN, and she is a wonderful person..so I know that this is from her heart and it made me hurt for her!

Good Journey John....and rest well.

Rest in peace 😢 

I did not grew up with his voice since there was only the dubbed version; but as soon as I first heard his OG voice it became the definitive voice for me and as soon as I had the chance to watch all He-Man and She-Ra episodes in the original language I did.

Although he spells his last name wrong, this still feels like a legit, interesting comment I found in the Deadline.com comments section:

"For the last 40 years or so John Irwin was a close friend and sometimes coworker and the world of voice acting. I first heard him on some early animation projects from the 70s and was absolutely knocked out by his versatility and accuracy at maintaining multiple characters and his total originality. Many cartoon characters, especially those in series, our take offs on other celebrities. John‘s work was almost 100% original. He gave birth to those characters and they lived a long time. Some by imitation from others, Sambi reruns, but most of them in the memories of those of us who enjoyed those programs and even the commercials that John was featured in serious

Yes he was extremely private, and where he lived with his phone number was but his address was at Cetera at Cetera at Cetera. It was because he loved his work he loved his family but somehow felt fans didn’t really understand the process of creating those things for cartoons and didn’t want to be constantly required to explain everything from Ground Zero to the success of the shows.

In his private life he did live a quiet life in Camarillo California. He was first attracted to the area because it had a wonderful airport. He had been an amateur pilot for many years and wanted to start over. After finding out the physical requirements, he figured he had passed the age where it would be practical. But aviation was something important in his life, he had flown many hours and personally produced and directed a feature length film on an amateur aviator. He was also crazy about the music. He played the wind instruments the various saxophones and the clarinet. His saxophone was an antique king model that is very hard to find these days but he preferred it to the more modern manufactured ones and could really make it sound great. His most consuming hobby was his art and he took The larger of the two bedrooms in his house and converted it into a professional art studio, choosing to use the smaller guestroom type room as his bedroom. Since I was a neighbor and had worked for many of the same people he had over the years we would meet regularly for lunch and usually talk about the old gang. Pretty soon that gang grew smaller and smaller. Yes, I can still call a few of them and get together to talk about old times… Most of us who made people laugh in animated films and other Productions don’t like to go in for nostalgia, it isn’t really terribly comfortable. But up until the end John Erwin lived A great life and to all of you who admired him and had trouble reaching him, you should be proud of the fact that he knew of you was proud to have a lot of fans and privately thank you all for supporting him. I know the simple phrase “he will be missed“ it’s sort of corny, but he will… I think towards the end he knew it and was very very grateful."