John Swasey

John Swasey
John Allan Swasey is an American voice actor, ADR Director, and script writer known for his work at Funimation, ADV Films and Sentai Filmworks.
He has provided voices for English-language versions of Japanese anime series and video games. His most notable roles include Gendo Ikari in the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Sir Crocodile in the Funimation dub of One Piece, Lord Death in Soul Eater, and Van Hohenheim in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Outside of voice acting, Swasey is also the founder of Anime Dallas, an anime convention which debuted in 2018.
Filmography
Voice roles
Anime
1996
Golden Boy – Director (Ep. 6, Debut Role)
1997
Sol Bianca – Dr. Delapaz
1998
Dirty Pair Flash – Andre (Ep. 3), Additional Voices
New Cutey Honey – Dr. Kisaragi
1999
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 – Dr. Stingray, Quincy Rosenkroitz
Martian Successor Nadesico – Seiya Uribatake, Cowboy Johnny (Ep. 9), Einstein (Ep. 18), Gen. Masaka (Ep. 4), Emperor Hyperion (Ep. 14)
2000
Dragon Half – Announcer, Narrator
Gasaraki – Colonel Stilbanov, Kei Nishida, Ronald Feigan, Yoshitake Gowa
Generator Gawl – Prof. Tekuma Nekasa, Additional Voices
2001
A.D. Police – Hideaki Kurata, Kaibara
Princess Nine – Principal Mita
Sorcerous Stabber Orphen – Volkan
Spriggan – Mr. Smith
2002
Chance Pop Session – Yamanaka, Additional Voices
Sorcerer on the Rocks – Count Cattlefish
Steel Angel Kurumi – The General
2003
Angelic Layer – Shouko's Dad, Kaede's Dad
Aura Battler Dunbine – Bann Burning, Shunka Zama
Crying Freeman – Tsunaike (ADV Dub)
Dirty Pair: Project Eden – Prof. Wattsman
Full Metal Panic! – Chairman Daicustra (Ep. 19), Shintaro Kazama (Ep. 14)
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi – Arata Imamiya
Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness – Seiya Uribatake
Najica Blitz Tactics – Rasse Pewnt, Admiral
Neo Ranga – Rano the Elder, Junichi Andou, Kento, Yamazaki
Noir – Dux (Ep. 3), Priest, Reimann (Ep. 12), Salvatore (Ep. 8)
RahXephon – Shougo Rikudoh
Saint Seiya – Phaeton, Hydra, Dios (ADV Dub)
Saiyuki – Zenon, Fake Hakkai
Super GALS! – Mr. Nakanishi, Detective Kudoh, Watari, Takashi Asai
2004
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku – Mr. Yamagata
Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution – Tachibana
Azumanga Daioh – Principal, Dr. Ishihara
Chrono Crusade – Edward "Elder" Hamilton, Carv
Cyberteam in Akihabara – Hibari's Father
D.N.Angel – Daiki Niwa
Fullmetal Alchemist – Karl Haushofer
Gravion – High Dignitary (Ep.8)
Grrl Power – Hanazono
Kaleido Star – Ken Robbins
Megazone 23: Part 3 – Drakeman
Mezzo DSA – Tanishi, Takizawa
Neon Genesis Evangelion – Gendo Ikari (Director's Cut)
Nurse Witch Komugi – Richard Vincent, Goto, Kaneda
Peacemaker Kurogane – Isami Kondo
Puni Puni Poemy – Narrator
Sister Princess – Jeeves
2005
Area 88 – Mickey Simon
Burst Angel – Prof. Keiko Shiratoro
Divergence Eve – Juhzou Kureha
E's Otherwise – Kyou
Elfen Lied – Professor Kakuzawa
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu – Teacher, Zenji Ohnuki (Ep. 5)
Gantz – Muso Tokugawa, Naozumi Saito, Yoshioka, Iwaki
Godannar – Tatsuya Aoi, Narrator
Hakugei: Legend of the Moby Dick – Capt. Ahab
Maburaho – Takashi Yamaguchi
The Place Promised in Our Early Days – Okabe
Tree of Palme – Gus, Zakuro
2006
Diamond Daydreams – Akari's Father, Goto
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa – Karl Haushofer
Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor – Fumio Fukamichi
Jinki: Extend – Genta Ogawara
Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok – Fenrir
Nanaka 6/17 – Taizo Kirisato
Nerima Daikon Brothers – Police Chief (Ep. 4)
Pani Poni Dash! – Michael, Professor (Ep. 9)
Princess Tutu – Paulo, Montand, Armadylan
Speed Grapher – Prime Minister Kamiya
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross – Captain Bruno J. Global
Tactics – Viscount Edogawa
Trinity Blood – Archbishop Alphonso D'Este
2007
009-1 – James (Ep. 13), Mylene's Father (Ep. 8)
BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad – Kamejima
Beet the Vandel Buster – Zenon
Best Student Council – Ryuheita Iwazakura, Narrator, Yuichi Kimizuka (Ep. 9)
Blade of the Phantom Master – Fuan-bo
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target – Peter Ford
Coyote Ragtime Show – Mister
Shin-Chan (Funimation dub) – Yoshiji Koyama
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid – Gates
Glass Fleet – Conrad, Nicholas
Hell Girl – Ryousuke Sekine (Ep. 21)
Innocent Venus – Maximas Drake
Jing: King of Bandits – Seventh Heaven – McQuade, Medaldo
Kurau: Phantom Memory – Ichise, Makurazaki
Le Chevalier D'Eon – Teillagory
Mushishi – Saishu (Ep. 9)
One Piece (Funimation dub) – Sir Crocodile
Red Garden – Claude
School Rumble – Genkai Goto (2nd season)
Shigurui: Death Frenzy – Kengyou Shizuhata
Tokyo Majin – Koni Fernandez, Mikuriya, Togo Narutaki
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle – Mr. Glosum
Venus Versus Virus – Soichiro Nahashi
Utawarerumono – Sasante
Welcome to the NHK – Go Minegishi, Sukekiyo Sagawa
Xenosaga: The Animation – Andrew Cherenkov
2008
Aquarion – Lopez (Ep. 15)
Claymore – Isley
Darker than Black – Huang, Naoyasu Kirihara
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series – Fredi
Kanon – Mr. Ishibashi (Ep. 2), Sayuri's Father (Ep. 14)
Moonlight Mile – Robert
One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta – Sir Crocodile
Ouran High School Host Club – Chairman Yuzuru Suou
Project Blue Earth SOS – Secretary General Freeman
2009
Baccano! – Van Dyke (Ep. 14)
Big Windup! – Tosei Coach
Blassreiter – Shido Kasugi
El Cazador de la Bruja – Enrique (Ep. 8)
Gunslinger Girl – Il Teatrino – Christiano Savonarola
Kaze no Stigma – Bernhardt Rhodes
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple – Mototsugu Shirahama
Murder Princess – King Forland (Ep. 1)
Rebuild of Evangelion – Gendo Ikari
Sgt. Frog – Kogoro
2010
Birdy the Mighty: Decode – Geega
Blue Drop – Headmaster Fukamachi
Canaan – Toyama
Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street – Booker Kudo
Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies – Narrator
Dragon Ball Z Kai – Dodoria, ZTV Announcer, Farmer (Ep. 1)
Dragonaut: The Resonance – Eiji Kamishina (Jin's Father Ep. 1)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Van Hohenheim
Ghost Hound – Mayor Motoi Yazaki
Halo Legends – Sergeant Hauser (Homecoming), Captain (Odd One Out)
Initial D: Fourth Stage – Kozo Hoshino
Legends of the Dark King – Ryuga, Jirai
Linebarrels of Iron – Dr. Amagatsu Kizaki
One Piece (Funimation dub) – Gan Fall
Rin ~Daughters of Mnemosyne – Tajimamori
Soul Eater – Lord Death
Tears to Tiara – Drwc, Tempesta, Ogam
2011
Black Butler series – Undertaker, Mr. Damiano (Season 1, Ep.1), Laurence Anderson (The Story of Will the Reaper)
Casshern Sins – Gido (Ep. 11)
Chaos;Head – Yasuji Ban
Fairy Tail – Hades/Precht
The Guin Saga – Casslon, Count Rickard
My Bride Is a Mermaid – Gozaburo Seto
Night Raid 1931 – 1st Lt. Mursawa (Ep. 14), Horst Stein (Ep. 5), Jiro Minami (Ep. 7), Miki (Ep. 6), Morito Morishima (Ep. 7)
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings – Oda Nobunaga
Summer Wars – Mansuke Jinnouchi
Trigun: Badlands Rumble – Gasback
2012
The Book of Bantorra – Governor of Paradise
Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker – Byron
Gintama: The Movie – Tetsuya Murata, Additional Voices
Intrigue in the Bakumatsu – Irohanihoheto – Jube Nakaiya
King of Thorn – Ivan Coral Vega
Majikoi! – Oh! Samurai Girls – Tesshin Kawakami
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt – Judgement Day Host (Ep. 8B)
2013
Aquarion Evol – Commander
Campione! – Sasha Dejanstahl Voban
Eureka Seven: AO – Ivica Tanovic
Guilty Crown – Makoto Waltz Segai
La storia della Arcana Famiglia – Fukurota
Little Busters! – Koujiro Kamikita
Log Horizon – Malves Garitier
Momo: The Girl God of Death – Kotaro Ichihara (Ep. 3)
Nakaimo – My Sister is Among Them! – Kumagorou Mikadono
Phi Brain: Puzzle of God – Genius Okudera
Rurouni Kenshin – New Kyoto Arc – Hajime Saitō
Sengoku Basara: The Last Party – Oda Nobunaga
Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar – Gaia, King Shurifon
Toriko – Alfaro
2014
Attack on Titan – Dhalis Zachary
Devil Survivor 2: The Animation – Tico (Male), Bifrons, Ceberus
Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Aramaki
Jormungand – Leon Rivière
Majestic Prince – Dai Komine, Diego, Noritada, Poco
Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust – Cleanwill John October
Psycho-Pass – Jyunmai Itoh (Ep. 14)
Short Peace – Merle (A Farewell to Weapons), Oni (Gambo)
Sunday Without God – Yuuto (Ep. 1)
Tamako Market – Gohei Oji
Diabolik Lovers – Karlheinz
2015
Akame ga Kill! – Bols, Nobunaga (Ep. 9, uncredited), Spy (Ep. 4)
Beyond the Boundary – Grandfather Nase
Death Parade – Spinner
Dog & Scissors – Genji, Fumio Honda
Freezing Vibration – Howard el Bridget (Ep. 7)
Gangsta. – Chad Adkins
No Game, No Life – Ino Hatsuse
The Rolling Girls – Mamoru Uotora
Vampire Hunter D – Dr. Ferrino (Sentai dub)
2016
The Boy and the Beast – Kumatetsu
Dennō Coil – Ichiro Okonogi
Lord Marksman and Vanadis – Mashas Rodant
My Hero Academia – All For One
2017
Alice and Zoroku – Zoroku Kashimura
Amagi Brilliant Park – Ironbeard, King Crimson (Ep. 14)
Flying Witch – Keiji Kuramoto
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma – Senzaemon Nakiri
GATE – Kato El Alestan
Haikyu!! – Yasufumi Nekomata (Eps. 12-13)
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? – Ganesha
My Hero Academia Season 2 – All For One
Knight's & Magic – Lauri Echevarria
Restaurant to Another World – Tatsugoro
Ushio & Tora – Hakumen no Mono, Shigure Aotsuki
2018
Made in Abyss – Habolg
Nomad of Nowhere – El Rey
My Hero Academia Season 3 – All For One
Attack On Titan Season 3 – Dhalis Zachary
UQ Holder! - Jack Rakan, Shaba Gyurei (Ep. 8)
2019
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected – Kamakura
Date A Live III - Elliot Baldwin Woodman (Ep. 3)
My Hero Academia Season 4 – All For One
2020
To Love Ru – Principal / Ghi Blee
Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time – Guildmaster
2021
Vinland Saga – Leif
My Hero Academia Season 5 – All For One
2022
Date A Live IV – Elliot Baldwin Woodman
Reincarnated as a Sword – Garrus
My Hero Academia Season 6 – All For One
RWBY: Ice Queendom - Nicholas Schnee (ep11)
2023
Vinland Saga Season 2 – Leif
Urusei Yatsura – Cherry
Management of a Novice Alchemist - Jasper, Proctor
Video games
Borderlands 2 – Salvador, Flanksteak
Dragon Ball series – Dodoria, Farmer, ZTV Announcer (2010–present)
Monark – Yugo Jingu
My Hero One's Justice 2 – All For One
One Piece: Unlimited Adventure – Sir Crocodile
Live action
Chase – Carl Spackler
Dazed and Confused – Beer Delivery Guy
Friday Night Lights – Coach Granger
Paradise, Texas – Buckeye
Ray – Customs Agent #1
Walker, Texas Ranger – Derrick, Kyle Wheeler, Steve Darby
Where the Heart Is – Jerry
Barney's Night Before Christmas — Dad
Production staff
Voice director
Air Gear
After the Rain
BanG Dream! (Season 2)
E's Otherwise
Innocent Venus
Iroduku: The World in Colors
Jinki: Extend
La storia della Arcana Famiglia
Majikoi! - Oh! Samurai Girls
Medaka Box Abnormal
Nakaimo - My Sister is Among Them!
Phi Brain: Puzzle of God (Season 2)
Saint Seiya
Shadow Skill - Eigi
Squid Girl (Season 2 & OVAs)
Ushio & Tora
Vinland Saga
Wandaba Style
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Script adaptation
Innocent Venus
Jinki: Extend
La storia della Arcana Famiglia
Nakaimo - My Sister is Among Them!
References
External links
Living people
American male voice actors
Male actors from Houston
American voice directors
Year of birth missing (living people)