Career
His book, Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth behind Media"s Effect on Children and What To Do About lieutenant, is published by Familius. His personal essays are published in The Baltimore Review, Blue Lake Review and The Missouri Review. Ratner’s performances of his personal essays are featured on KCRW’s Strangers and National Public Radio"s The Business. and Good Food.
He has been a Los Angeles Unified School storyteller since 1993.
He is a contributing author of the book Secrets of Voiceover Success. He is best known for being the voice of Flint in Hasbro’s syndicated television cartoon G.I. Joe.
He reprised the role of "Flint" in episodes of Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Community. He is the movie trailer voice for Inside Out, Ant-Manitoba, Will Ferrell"s Talladega Nights and Blades of Glory, Kung Fu Panda, Piglet"s Big Movie, Tenacious Doctorate, Mike Myers"s The Love Guru, Monsters versus
Aliens, Observe and Report, Extract, The Goods, Youth in Revolt, and many more.
He is the narrator in documentaries on Discovery, A&East, East! True Hollywood Story, Travel Channel and History. His voice is on Kings Quest, Grand Theft Auto IV & Grand Theft Auto V, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, and is the narrator in episodes of Ben 10 for the Cartoon Network. Bill is also a voice-over announcer for television stations across the United States, including KHOU in Houston, KENS in San Antonio, WBAL-television in Baltimore, KMGH-television in Denver, KCRA in Sacramento, World's Largest Store -television in Chicago, WTVC in Chattanooga, WWL-television in New Orleans, KXLY in Spokane, and WRAL in Raleigh/Durham.
