Neil Kaplan


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 June 2007 and August 2010, to Armageddon in October 2007, and to AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival in July 2018. He also created the television series The Way it WASN'T! and the graphic novel I, of the Wolf. He voices Captain Fort Worth in the adult video game BoneCraft.

Filmography

Anime

Animation

Films

  • Digimon: The Movie – Twin Boy 1, Computer Voice 2, Professor, Hawkmon, Halsemon
  • Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning as Hawkmon
  • Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! - Professor, Little Boy 2C
  • Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals - Hawkmon, Halsemon
  • Dragon Quest: Your Story – Dr. Agon, Zenith Dragon
  • Ghost Cat Anzu – Old Man Mushroom
  • Muhammad: The Last Prophet – 'Amr ibn al-'As, The Spy
  • The Happy Cricket – Toad #1
  • The Little Polar Bear – Bert
  • Promare – Vulcan Haestus

    Video games

  • Baten Kaitos Origins – Wiseman/Verus Wiseman
  • BioShock Infinite – Thursday Warren, John Hammond, Ezekiel Price
  • BoneCraft – Captain Fort Worth
  • Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion – Grim, Johnny Bravo, Him
  • Conan – Bone Cleaver
  • Conan Exiles - Nunu the Cannibal, Additional Voices
  • Destiny 2 – Dominus Ghaul
  • DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles – Emperor Zarkon
  • Fallout 76 – Biv, Derrick Taylor, Dr. Emerson Hale, Hubert, Lev, Marcus, Intercom, Raiders, Blood Eagles
  • Final Fantasy XIII – Cocoon Inhabitants
  • Final Fantasy XIII-2 – Additional Voices
  • Final Fantasy XV – Additional voices
  • Gears of War 3 – Stranded Crew #7
  • Guild Wars 2 – Various Charr and Norn NPCs, Edrick Thorn
  • Hearthstone – Cenarius
  • Heroes of the Storm – Tychus
  • Honkai: Star Rail - Duke Inferno
  • Infamous First Light – Additional Voices
  • Justice League Heroes – Gorilla Grodd
  • League of Legends – Aurelion Sol
  • Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII – Additional Voices
  • Marvel Heroes – Sabretooth, Venom
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor – Nemesis Orcs, Humans
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 – Obito Uchiha, Madara Uchiha
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 – Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations – Madara Uchiha
  • Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution – Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha
  • Ninja Gaiden II – Genshin
  • Omega Strikers - Drek'ar
  • Red Dead Redemption 2 – The Local Pedestrian Population
  • Skylanders: Giants – Batterson, Hatterson
  • Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure – Nort, Weapon Master
  • Skylanders: Trap Team – Batterson, Hatterson
  • Spider-Man 3 – Kraven the Hunter
  • Spider-Man: Battle for New York – Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic – Skadge
  • StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – Tychus Findlay, Reaper, Vulture
  • StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void - Herc
  • Tell Me Why – Tom Vecchi / Alexander Kershwin
  • The Last of Us – Additional Voices
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Long Haul
  • Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution – Ork Nob
  • World of Warcraft: Cataclysm – Cenarius
  • World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor – Additional Voices

    Live-action

  • Beetleborgs Metallix – Hornix, Witch Doctor
  • Big Bad Beetleborgs - Venus Claptrap
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie – Oozemen
  • Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue – Diabolico, Gold Beaked Monster
  • Power Rangers Lost Galaxy – Destruxo, Mutantrum
  • Power Rangers Time Force – Gluto, Recap Narrator