Neil Kaplan

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 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. He voices Captain Fort Worth in the adult video game BoneCraft.
Filmography
Anime
Animation
Films
Digimon: The Movie – Hawkmon, Halsemon
Dragon Quest: Your Story – Dr. Agon, Zenith Dragon
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
Conan – Bone Cleaver
Conan Exiles - Nunu the Cannibal, Additional Voice
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 – Additional Voices
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
Infamous First Light – Additional Voices
Justice League Heroes – Gorilla Grodd
League of Legends – Aurelion Sol, the Star Forger
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 (Ninja War Tobi), Madara Uchiha
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 – Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha (Ninja War Tobi)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations – Madara Uchiha
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution – Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha (Ninja War Tobi)
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 (voices, credited as Bob Johnson)
Big Bad Beetleborgs – Venus Claptrap (voice, credited as Bob Johnson)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie – Oozemen (voice, uncredited)
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue – Diabolico, Gold Beaked Monster (voices)
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy – Destruxo (voice), Mutantrum (2nd voice)
Power Rangers Time Force – Gluto (voice), Recap Narrator (voice, uncredited)
References
External links
Neil Kaplan - official website
Neil Kaplan's Facebook
American male voice actors
American male comedians
American impressionists (entertainers)
American male video game actors
Contestants on American game shows
Living people
Jewish American male actors
Jewish American comedians
21st-century American comedians
21st-century American Jews
Year of birth missing (living people)