Showmasters Admin showmasters Posted March 20, 2016 Showmasters Admin Share Posted March 20, 2016 Latest Guest Announcement - Neil Kaplan Friday, Saturday & Sunday Autograph Price: £10 Transformers: Robots in Disguise (Optimus Prime) Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Diabolico & Gluto) Digimon (Hawkmon) Naruto: Shippuden (Madra Uchiha) Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (Tychus Findlay) Star Wars: Uprising (Governor Adelhard) Star Wars: The Old Republic (Skadge) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Bendak Starkiller) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0090464/ Neil Kaplan is an American voice over actor known for his work over the last 20+ years in animation, video games, television, film, audiobooks, amusement parks and anime. His earliest work included voicing background characters, henchmen the occasional villains-of-the-week on the television classic, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. (As well as The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The Movie) However, Power Rangers know his best for voicing the memorable DIABOLICO, the evil lieutenant to Queen Bansheera in "Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue" and GLUTO, the not-so-bright henchman to the villainous Rancik, on "Power Rangers Time Force". During this same time, he worked on other fan favorite shows including Digimon in which he voiced numerous chapters including the popular Digimon, HAWKMON, as well as all of his derivations. In 2001 Neil was cast to be the second actor to give voice to the iconic Autobot leader OPTIMUS PRIME on FOX Kids' "Transformers: Robots in Disguise". Although it only lasted for one season, the impact of that series on fans around the world is still discussed today. His current work in the world of anime includes the charismatic villain MADARA UCHIHA on the popular long-running series "Naruto: Shippuden". Over the past decade plus, Neil has worked on dozens and dozens video games, often creating incredibly memorable characters including the roguish anti-hero TYCHUS J. FINDLAY in both "Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty" and "Heroes of The Storm", the mysterious star dragon AURELION SOL in "League of Legends", the hulking, brutish, bounty hunter companion SKADGE in "Star Wars: The Old Republic", as well as IMPERIAL GOVERNOR ADELHARD in "Star Wars: Uprising" and BENDAK STARKILLER in "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic". He can be heard as SABRETOOTH and VENOM in "Marvel Heroes", KRAVEN THE HUNTER, GORILLA GRODD, DECEPTICON LONG HAUL, NORMAN OSBOURNE and THE GREEN GOBLIN on various video games as well as hundreds of non-descript background characters who help bring the background to life. His video game credits include The Skylanders series of games, "The Last of Us", "God of War: Ascension", "Diablo III", "Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor", "Elder Scrolls", "Guild Wars 2", "Bioshock Infinite", "World of Warcraft" and many, MANY others. Neil's other work includes the voice of the talking, stuffed Care Bear teddy bear called FUNSHINE BEAR, since 2010 Neil has been the main narrator for the young adult book series "I am Number Four". He was thrilled to say YES whenproducers pf the cult hit "Robot Chicken" asked him to play in their sandbox as the LEADER of GI JOE EXTREME and Hogwart's beloved headmaster, ALBUS DUMBLEDORE. Currently, Neil has been working on (Entire Name Redacted.) As well as (NDA protected) ...And he is looking forward to being able share these newest projects with you in the very near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayden Is My Hero Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Awesome! Hope this is the start of many voice actors to come! More digimon and Final Fantasy VAs would be amazing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsoldierspoon Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Finally a voice actor again for LFCC Hoping for more to be announced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No1avenger Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Wow awesome guest can't wait to meet him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSM Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 I've met Neil before and he's a really nice guy. Nice to see a voice actor finally announced. Hoping this is the first of many. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbtiger1992 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 I am so excited but it's odd that he's not doing a photoshoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sassy1988 Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Cool 2 guests I wouldn't mind meeting now. Really loved his voice as Madara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elloello Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Just seen he's going to be voicing King Zarkon on Netflix's Voltron: Legendary Defender. Bex Taylor-Klaus to http://nerdist.com/new-voltron-legendary-defender-trailer-reinvents-the-legend/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnova Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I've seen Optimoose Prime a few times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jangojohnny Posted July 27, 2016 Share Posted July 27, 2016 What a shame he's only credited as "Additional Voices" in Highlander Vengeance as I'd have got a shot of every character he played if I'd known who.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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