Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings (PVH), also known as the Phoenix Consortium, was a British company formed by four businessmen (John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards). Following BMW's break-up of the Rover Group a financially complex deal involving a £500 million "dowry payment" from BMW, resulted in PVH purchasing the Rover marque in May 2000 for the notional sum of £10, relaunching the car company as MG Rover. MG Rover and related companies placed themselves in administration on 8 April 2005. Four years later and after spending £16m the Government finally released the report investigating the
John Stephenson (actor) Mr. Speck, and the villain of that episode, The Specter. Still, another voice Stephenson was noted for, was his take on "Boris Karloff". A lot of the Karloff-sounding villains in early episodes of "Scooby-Doo" were provided by Stephenson. He played Hairy Scary on "Casper and the Angels" along with "Casper's Halloween Special" and "Casper's First Christmas". He also played Farmer John Arable in the 1973 Hanna-Barbera animated feature "Charlotte's Web". John Stephenson borrowed the vocal traits of Joe Flynn for several characters as mentioned earlier, Boris Karloff for several more, and did a Jimmy Durante for the 1970s and 1980s