Neil Kaplan
Kaplan in 2023
Other names
  • Neil Caplan
  • Bob Johnson
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • entertainer
  • comedian
Years active1993–present
Websitenekap.net

Neil Charles Kaplan is an American voice actor, audiobook narrator, entertainer, and comedian. His most well known voice roles are Hawkmon from Digimon, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto from Bleach, Emperor Zarkon from Voltron: Legendary Defender and Madara Uchiha from Naruto.

Biography

Kaplan got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little-known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including several Star Wars titles. From there he went on to do such shows as Power Rangers, Digimon: Digital Monsters and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. He was once a contestant on the game show Street Smarts. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. He was a guest to the Power Morphicon (in Los Angeles) in June 2007 and August 2010, to Armageddon (in Australia and New Zealand) in October 2007, and to AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival (in Australia) in July 2018. He also created the television series The Way it WASN'T! and the graphic novel I, of the Wolf.[1][better source needed] He voices Captain Fort Worth in the adult video game BoneCraft.[2]

Filmography

Anime

List of English dubbing performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
1999 FAKE Drake
2000–2001 Digimon Adventure 02 Halsemon, Hogan, Ilya, Hawkmon, Shurimon, Aquilamon, Silphymon (shared with Edie Mirman)
2001–2002 Digimon Tamers Indramon, Divermon, Babel
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Optimus Prime, Ro-Tor
2002–2003 Tokyo Pig Principal
Digimon Frontier Eldest Mushroomon, Woodmon (Ep. 4), Kokuwamon, Kokuwamon Elder (Ep. 5), Baromon (Ep. 40)
2003 Reign: The Conqueror Ibn As Bob Johnson
2003–2004 Brigadoon: Marin & Melan Shuta Alan, Poyon Silver, Detective Chunen
2005–2006 Daphne in the Brilliant Blue Lun Shibazaki, Additional Voices
2006 Zatch Bell! Belgim E.O.
2007–2014 Bleach Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Ruzaburō "Enryū" Enkōgawa, Gesell, Tenken, Zommari Rureaux (Ep. 195+)
2008 Digimon Data Squad Pumpkinmon #1 (Eps. 30–34), Ninjamon #3 (Ep. 31), Piximon (Ep. 32), Franz' Agent #1 (Ep. 33), Desk Man #1 (Ep. 33)
Naruto Kiyoyasu Episode: "Laughing Shino"
2008–2010 Blue Dragon Saber Tiger
2011 Marvel Anime: Iron Man Minister Defense Kuroda
2012 Marvel Anime: Blade High Council Chairman, Additional Voices
2012–2019 Naruto Shippuden Tobi, Madara Uchiha (Ep. 125+)
2013–2015 Digimon Fusion Lord Bagra, NeoMyotismon, Anubismon
2016 Sailor Moon Edwards Episode: "Usagi Dancing to the Waltz", Viz dub
2017–2018 Lupin the Third Part IV Robson Zuccooli
2018 Terraformars Kaiki Kouno Episode: "War - All-Out War" [3]
2019 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Dozle Zabi [4][5][6]
2020 Cagaster of an Insect Cage Adham
Great Pretender Lewis Mueller
2021–2022 Attack on Titan Theo Magath
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Sebastian Silverdeer
2022–present Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto, Asuka Katakura, Robert Accutrone

Animation

List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
The Mouse and the Monster Utility Guy
2006 Higglytown Heroes Mover Hero
2014 Robot Chicken Albus Dumbledore, Lt. Stone
2016–2018 Voltron: Legendary Defender Emperor Zarkon
2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Club Owner
Wacky Races Sheriff Longarm D. Law Episode: "Smokey and the Racers"
2019 Love, Death & Robots Hank Episode: "Suits"
2021 Star Wars: Visions Narrator Episode" "The Ninth Jedi", English dub [7]

Films

Video games

Live-action

References

  1. ^ The concept for I, of the Wolf was initially developed while he was in attendance at the Transformers convention Auto Assembly over a meal in a Chinese restaurant with some of the convention's other guests. Source: convention organiser
  2. ^ "Voice Actor Neil Kaplan Signs On to BoneCraft as Captain Fort Worth". Archived from the original on November 24, 2011.
  3. ^ "Viz Media Reveals English Dub Cast for Terraformars Anime". Anime News Network. July 1, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  4. ^ "Gundam the Origin I's 1st 7 Minutes English-Dubbed & Subtitled". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  5. ^ "'Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Sorrowful Artesia' Anime Episode Gets English Language Trailer". The Fandom Post. March 16, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  6. ^ "Second 'Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin' Anime Episode Titled". The Fandom Post. March 2, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2015.
  7. ^ "Stunning New Star Wars: Visions Trailer Debuts". StarWars.com. August 17, 2021. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  8. ^ "Promare Anime Film's English-dubbed Trailer Streamed (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 29, 2019.
  9. ^ Bethesda Game Studios Austin (April 14, 2020). Fallout 76: Wastelanders DLC. Bethesda Softworks. Scene: Credits: Voice & Music - Cast.
  10. ^ "Final Fantasy XIII (2010 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
  11. ^ "Gears of War 3 (2011 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
  12. ^ Sucker Punch Productions. Infamous First Light. Scene: Closing credits, 1:18 minutes in, Additional Voice Acting by.
  13. ^ Square Enix. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Scene: Closing credits, 5 minutes in, Voice Actors, Additional Voices.
  14. ^ CyberConnect2. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4. Scene: Closing credits, 0:48 in, English Cast.((cite book)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ Toys for Bob. Skylanders: Trap Team. Scene: Closing credits, 8:40 in.
  16. ^ Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. Scene: Closing credits, 11:30 in, Voice Over Cast.

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Preceded byPeter Cullen 1984-1987 Original Series Voice of Optimus Prime 2001–2002 Robots in Disguise Succeeded byGarry Chalk 2002–2006 Unicron Trilogy
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