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Years active | 1993–present |
Website | nekap |
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.
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]
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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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 |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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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] |