Richard Epcar
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Richard Epcar is well known to Anime fans, starting with the original ‘Robotech’ series- in which he played ‘Ben Dixon’, ‘Lunk’, and ‘Gruel’, and he’s the voice of Capt. Vince Grant in the new original animated feature, ‘Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles’, which he also directed.
Most recently he can be heard as ‘Zangetsu’ in ‘Bleach’, as ‘Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo’ on Cartoon Network, which he also helps write and direct and the forthcoming ‘The Mr. Men Show’ in which he plays ‘Mr. Noisy’.
He is the voice of ‘Batou’ in the ‘Ghost in the Shell’ movie, the game, the series, ‘Ghost in the Shell-Stand Alone Complex’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell 2-Innocence’, which he also adapted and directed into English.
He was ‘Guld’ in ‘Macross’ and ‘Mac’ in ‘Teknoman’, which he also wrote and directed.
He wrote for ‘Transformers’ and did the voice of ‘Armorhide’. He’s directed the ‘Lupin the Third’ series and does the voice of ‘Jigen’. He is the lead in the new original animated series, ‘Avenging Apes of Africa’. He directed and played ‘Moe’ in ‘The Reef’, an original animated movie with an all star cast.
Some of you will remember him from ‘Lain’, ‘Serial Experiment’, ‘Trigun’, ‘Wings of Honneamise’, ‘Fists of the North Star’, ‘Fushigi Yuugi’ as ‘Mitsukake’, ‘Capt. Harlock’, ‘Ninja Scroll’ as Lord Himuro Gemma, ‘Steroko’, ‘Bastard’, ‘Street Fighter’, ‘Daigunder’, ‘GTO’, ‘Samuri X’, ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ as ‘Seijuro Hiko’, ‘Macron’ and ‘Macross I, II, III, Macross Plus’, ‘Gundam’, Mobile Suit Gundam’, ‘Witch Hunter Robin’, ‘The New Speed Racer’- as Racer X, ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Cyber Soldier 009’-as ‘Black Ghost’, to name just a few.
He was named ‘Favorite Actor’ by DVD VisionJapan.
He wrote and directed into English ‘Fearless’, starring Jet Li, ‘Azumi’, ‘Patlabor III’, ‘The Returner’, ‘Omyoji’, ‘The Secret of Mamo’, ‘Toy Warrior’, ‘Fighting Spirit’- doing the voice of ‘Kamogawa’, and directed the CGI series ‘Zentrix’.
Not many people know that he directed the first season of ‘Digimon’ and did three lead voices on that show, including ‘Etemon’, Myotismon’ and ‘Apemon’.
He also wrote and directed and did lead voices on ‘Eagle Riders’, ‘Flint the Time Detective’, ‘Mon Colle Knights’ and ‘Power Rangers’, and many, many other anime shows too numerous to mention.
Some of the games you’ve heard him on are: ‘Star Wars-Empire At War’, ‘Xenosaga I, II and III as ‘Ziggarat 8’ or ‘Ziggy’, ‘.Hack I, II and III’ ‘Kingdom Hearts 2’ as ‘Ansem / Xehanort’, ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Supreme Commander’, ‘Paraworld’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Robotech Invasion’, ‘Samurai Warriors’, ‘Dynasty Warriors’, ‘Warcraft III’ and ‘World of Warcraft’, ‘Jade Cacoon’, ‘Galerians’, ‘Street Fighters’, ‘Star Ocean 3’.
Games he’s directed are ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Shadow Hearts II’, ‘Lupin III’, ‘Fighting Spirit’, ‘Smack Down vs. Raw 2007’, ‘JackAss the game’, and ‘Dead Head Fred’.
As an actor he’s recurred on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘General Hospital’, On film he co-starred in ‘Memoirs of an Invisible Man’ with Chevy Chase and Sam Neill, and just starred in a short film entitled, ‘Three Putts’. On television he’s done several shows, including ‘Columbo’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Guns of Paradise’, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’, ’Matlock’, ‘Who’s the Boss?’ and ‘Cheers’.
Live action feature films that he has adapted and directed into English include many, many foreign films, including Academy Award winners ‘Cinema Paradiso’, ‘Belle Epoque’, ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’ ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Fencing Master’, ‘Widow of St. Pierre’, ‘Amores Perros’, ‘Mission Kashmir’, ‘The Emperor and the Assassin’, ‘Oldboy’, ‘Shiri’, and ‘Fearless’, with Jet Li, to name a few.
He also does tons of voice work on many shows including: ‘Resident Evil 3’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Jag’, ‘Devil’s Rejects’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Xena’ & ‘Hercules’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Independence Day’, ‘Inspector Gadget’, ‘Seven’, ‘Rumble in the Bronx’, ‘Man in the Iron Mask’, ‘Rounders’, ‘Crime Story’, ‘Hell Raiser III & IV’, ‘Hard Target’, ‘Operation Condor’, ‘Hopalong Cassidy’, ‘ER’, ‘Nash Bridges’, ‘Babylon 5’, and many others.
As an International Supervisor for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks, Richards work has taken him all over the world supervising the foreign dubs and mixes of feature films such as: ‘Gladiator’, ‘Madagascar’, ‘Galaxy Quest’, ‘Chicken Run’, ‘El Dorado’ and the 20th Anniversary release of ‘E.T.’.
Visit Mr. Epcar’s webpage at richardepcar.com.
Updated 06/06/2007
