John Towers (businessman) John Towers (businessman) John Towers CBE (born 30 March 1948) is an English businessman, who was the owner and managing director of MG Rover Group from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005. This followed a succession of senior appointments within Rover, which he had joined from Massey Ferguson in 1988. Towers started his career in 1966 as a student apprentice with Perkins Engines of Peterborough, which by that time had become a subsidiary of Massey Ferguson. He rose within Perkins to become Director of Engineering before leaving in 1988 to join the Rover Group. Together with Peter Beale,
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