Greg Eagles
Greg Eagles (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.
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Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. | October 28, 1970
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1993–present |
Career
Eagles began his acting career in 1993, he made his professional acting debut in the television film Blindsided, were he played a detective. His other live acting credits include How to Live with Your Parents, L.A Heat, NYPD Blue, Pair of Kings, Sister, Sister, Snowfall, Teeth and Blood, The Burning Zone, The Hepburn Effect and The Riches.
He also works extensively as a voice actor, he has provided numerous characters voices in various animated films, anime, television shows and video games. Eagles voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's animated series Grim & Evil and its spin-off series, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He has also reprised the role in an episode the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door and in the video games, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion. In anime, he voiced O'Connor in 8 Man After, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Resurrection and Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda in Bleach. He also voiced Brother 6 and Rokutaro in the Afro Samurai video game.
Since 2007, he has been the voice of Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, beginning with Crash of the Titans. He has since reprised the role in Crash: Mind over Mutant, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Additionally, he also provided the voices of Jax Briggs, Baraka in Mortal Kombat X as well as Gray Fox, Donald Anderson and various other characters in the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
Eagles is also currently working on an animation project for a television series titled Teapot, about an 11-year-old boy who wishes to be a rapping superstar. He worked on the pilot episode which aired in Nicktoons Network's Random! Cartoons in which he created, produced, written, voice directed and even provided the voice of the titular character. The pilot was storyboarded and art directed by Dahveed Kolodny Nagy (creator of Supa Pirate Booty Hunt) as well as Alex Almaguer, who worked as a writer and storyboard artist on Billy & Mandy, and directed by Robert Alvarez. He is planning to turn the pilot into a full TV-series when it gets picked up, even making an online opening sequence and full theme song. The cartoon short also had a Kickstarter and a now-lost Indiegogo campaign for a video game adaption, Teapot Rap it Up! but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal.[1]
Filmography
Live-action
- Blindsided – Detective #1
- How to Live with Your Parents – Long Haired Dude
- L.A Heat – Unknown role
- NYPD Blue – Wright Jamison
- Pair of Kings – Tarantula Witch Doctor
- Sister, Sister – Customer #1
- Snowfall – Husky
- Teeth and Blood – Vampire Priest
- The Burning Zone – Zairian
- The Hepburn Effect – Bo Dollar (also writer and producer)
- The Riches – Mark
Animated film
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Mackie, Ben Derrick
- Foodfight! – Hairless Hamster Henchmen
- Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen – Grim
- Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure – Grim
- Garfield's Fun Fest – Eli
- Garfield Gets Real – Eli
- Garfield's Pet Force – Eli
- Underfist: Halloween Bash – The Grim Reaper
Anime
- 8 Man After – O'Connor
- Afro Samurai – Brother 6, Rokutaro (Afro's Father)
- Afro Samurai: Resurrection – Rokutaro
- Bleach – Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda
Animation
- Dexter's Laboratory – Tiki, Robo Shark, Capital G[2]
- Invasion America – Philip Stark
- Cow and Chicken – Blind Mud Puddle Johnson, Tongue, Wattle, Sergeant Weenie Arms[2]
- Megas XLR – Cal, Driving Test Guy #1[2]
- Bunnicula – Rusty Bones, Additional voices[2]
- ABC Weekend Specials – Sly Boy
- The Bold and the Beautiful – Kevin
- Codename: Kids Next Door – The Grim Reaper, Sperg/The Delightful Reaper
- Crashbox – Captain Bob, Sketch Pad
- How I Loved a Macho Boy – Fredrick Masekela
- Lobo – Lobo (episodes 1-5, special)
- Nick's Evil Ways – Frankenstein
- What a Cartoon! — Fix (Ep: Buy One, Get One Free)
- Oh Yeah! Cartoons — Stinger, Additional voices
- Random! Cartoons – Teapot, Silkbone, Blind Man, Additional voices (also writer and producer, 1 episode)
- The Powerpuff Girls - Sandman
- Sister, Sister – Customer #1
- Grim & Evil – Grim, Sperg
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy – Grim, Sperg
- The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat – Additional voices
- Where My Dogs At? – Additional voices
- Zombie College – Jamaican Zombie
Video games
- Star Warped – Additional voices
- Interstate '76 – Taurus
- Metal Gear Solid – Gray Fox, Donald Anderson[2]
- Fallout 2 – Sulik[2]
- Interstate '76 Nitro Pack – Taurus
- Revenant – Ogro Mort, Yhagoro, Townsmen[2]
- Interstate '82 – Taurus
- Star Trek: New Worlds – Additional voices
- Star Trek: Klingon Academy – Torlek
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty – Peter Stillman (English dub)[2]
- Star Trek: Armada II – Additional voices
- Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem – Michael Edwards, Undead Guard, Chattur'gha[2]
- Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix – Cpl. William ‘Butch’ Abrams
- Wreckless: The Yakuza Missions – Police Captain (Uncredited)
- Dead to Rights – Preacherman Jones, Rafshoon Diggs
- Icewind Dale II – Additional voices
- Star Trek: Starfleet Command III – Commander Jureth
- Hunter: The Reckoning: Wayward – Joshua
- Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer – Additional voices
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes – Donald Anderson (English dub)[2]
Role of Gray Fox replaced by Rob Paulsen - EverQuest II – Additional voices
- Killer7 – Garcian Smith (English dub)[2]
- Quake 4 – Sgt. Morris
- True Crime: New York City – Additional voices[3]
- Saints Row – Stilwater’s Resident
- The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy – The Grim Reaper[2]
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance – Luke Cage, Super Skrull, Gorgon[2]
- The Sopranos: Road to Respect – Additional voices
- Superman Returns – The Citizens of Metropolis
- The Shield[2] – Det. Marques Hendryx
- Unreal Tournament 3 – Malcolm
- Crash of the Titans – Aku Aku
- Crash: Mind over Mutant – Aku Aku
- 007: Quantum of Solace – Steven Obanno
- Madagascar 2 – Moto Moto[2]
- Mercenaries 2: World in Flames – Blanco
- Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall – The Grim Reaper
- Afro Samurai – Brother 6, Assassins, Rokutaro (English dub)[2]
- Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion – The Grim Reaper
- Grand Theft Auto V – The Local Population
- Mortal Kombat X – Jax Briggs, Baraka[4][5]
- XCOM 2 – US Soldier
- Mafia III – Additional voices
- Skylanders: Imaginators – Aku Aku
- Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy – Aku Aku[2]
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled – Aku Aku [2]
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time – Aku Aku
Theme park attractions
- The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad – Narrator
References
- "Teapot 'Rap It Up' Animated Video Game".
- "Behind The Voice Actors - Greg Eagles". Behind The Voice Actors. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:30:01 in, VOICE TALENT.
- NetherRealm Studios. Mortal Kombat X. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Kredits, 3:30 in, English Voice Talent.
- Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "Huge thanks to the stellar MKX voice actors: Troy @TroyBakerVA (Shinnok/EBlack/Fujin), Ronald M. Banks (Quan Chi); Ashly Burch (Cassie)..." (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "... Steve Blum (SubZero/Reptile/Bo'RaiCho); Johnny Yong Bosch (Kung Jin); Andrew @AndrewSBowen (Johnny/Smoke/Rain); Greg Eagles (Jax/Baraka)" (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
External links
- Greg Eagles at IMDb
- Greg Eagles at Anime News Network's encyclopedia