Dave "Squatch" Ward

Dave "Squatch" Ward is an Irish-born actor who has worked in Canada since the late 1980s. He appeared in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie as the salvation army Santa Claus encountered by Fozzie Bear. He also played a taxi driver in the 2002 feature comedy Snow Dogs, which featured an animatronic character from Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Ward has been active as a voice artist, dubbing Japanese animated series like Dragon Ball Z (King Kai and Guldo), Movile Suit Gundam Wing (Doctor J and Master Long Shirin), and Hamtaro (Elder Hamster). On-camera, he was a regular as Ned Bell in the Disney Channell series So Weird, and appeared in the films Stay Tuned, Car Pool, and Ernest Rides Again.