Michael E. Rodgers

"Get to be a kid again, right? Who doesn't love that?"
 - Michael E. Rodgers on the VHS footage of the premiere of Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Michael E. Rodgers (born 8 May 1969) is a Scottish actor and voice actor. He is known for playing the role of Mr. Conductor Jr in the 2000 film Thomas and the Magic Railroad and voicing Gabranth in the English dub of the 2006 Japanese video game Final Fantasy XII. 
== Official Roles ==
Year 	Title 	Character 	Notes
1996 	The Dentist 	Nervous Patient 	Minor role
Late 1990's	??? 	??? 	Possible minor/major role
According to many Italian sources focusing on this actor, it has been stated that Michael E. Rodgers has worked with Jack Lemmon and Matthew Broderick on an on-screen production before. It is unknown if this is true or not, since no further information has been on the internet to this day.
1997 	NightMan 	Unnamed antagonist 	Major role
Series 1 Episode 3
1998 	Gia 	Red Dress Photographer	Minor role
1998 	Sugar Town 	Journalist 	Minor role
1998 	Uncorked 	Paul 	
1999 	Legacy 	Anthony Haynes 	Major/Supporting role
Series 1 Episode 12
2000 	Escape Under Pressure 	Rupp 	Major role
2000 	Thomas and the Magic Railroad	Mr. Conductor Jr 	First major role in a children's film
2001 	Thank Heaven 	Horace 	Possible minor/major role
2002 	Auto Focus 	Richard Dawson 	Major role
2004 	Red Rose 	Robert Burns 	Major starring role
2005 	The Triangle 	Bruce Geller 	Major starring role
2007 	Sinner 	Stephen 	Major starring role
2018 	Penny on M.A.R.S 	Bruce 	Television series
Major or supporting role
First major/minor role in a children's television series
First major/minor role in a children's production since Thomas and the Magic Railroad
Disney Channel Italy original series
NOTE: Not all of his projects are included in this list
== Official Voice Roles ==
Year	Title 	Character	Notes
2005	The Matrix: Path of Neo	Doberman 	Minor role
First official voice role
First role in a video game
2006	Final Fantasy XII 	Gabranth 	Major role
English dub
== Unofficial Acting/ Voice Roles ==
Year 	Title 	Character 	Notes
1997-2001	6 Rainbow Doraemons 	Purple Doraemon/ Additional voices 	Major starring role/ additional roles
English dubs: RAI/BBC, Alliance Atlantis, and Fox Kids/Jetix Europe
1997 	2112: The Birth of Doraemon 	Yellow Doraemon/ Dora-rinho/ El Metadora/Additional Voices 	Major starring role/additional roles
English dub
1997 	Doraemon and the Curse of the Space Case 	Space Commander Jr. 	Major role
1997-2005	Doraemon 	Giant (1997)/Nobu Nobi (1999-2001) 	Major role
English dub: Alliance Atlantis, CBBC, Fox Kids/Jetix Europe
Michael has left production of the dub due to creative differences. To finish production, Fox Kids Europe quickly hired an unknown male voice actor in his late 20's to finish voice acting in the dub. The unknown voice actor was the remaining voice actor to voice Nobu in this dub before it's ending.
Successor: Unknown
1997-2001	Perman: Kid Superhero! 	Saban the Small Kid (1997-2000)/ Additional Voices 	Major/Additional role
Successor: Steven Kynman
English dub: Fox Kids Europe
1997-2001	The Laughing Salesman 	Laughing Salesman/ Additional Voices 	Major starring role
English dub
1999 	Buck Douglas' Alien Quest 	Buck Douglas 	Major starring role
Pilot episode/test run only
English dub
Successor: Unknown
1999 	Doraemon: Legends of the Anywhere Door 	Narrator/Nobu Nobi/Additional Voices 	Major starring role
Cancelled English dub of Japanese video game
1999 	The Wrong Side of Town 	Terrence/Narrator/Additional Voices 	Major starring role
Controversial role
1999/2002	Detective Conan 	Conan Edogawa/Kogoro Mori/Genta Kojima/Additional Voices 	Episodes 1-10 only
He voiced Kogoro for only the first two episodes, due to his voice imitation of Kogoro's Japanese voice irritating his throat.
He voiced Genta for episode 6 only because Kyle Herbert, his original English voice actor, was unavialable at that time, and Genta's role was only brief in this episode.
Michael also voiced Conan's inside thoughts by using his normal Scottish accent instead of his high-pitched, childish, and adorable voice he originally used for Conan.
Processor: Kyle Herbert (Genta)
Successor: Unknown (Conan and his inside thoughts), Robert Tinkler (Kogoro), Kyle Herbert (Genta)
1999/2000	Berry Blast Off 	Narrator/ Blue Raspberry/ Cucumber #1/ Eggplant/ Small Raspberry #3/ 30-Year-Old Man/ Yellow Apple/ Candy Apple/ Poison Apple	Voice only
This film was scrapped by Warner Bros. Feature Animation, the animation studio of this film, after production ended, because it was panned by critics before it's release.
2000/2001	Berry Blast Off 2 	Blue Raspberry/ Additional Voices 	Voice Only
This film also got scrapped from Warner Bros. Feature Animation due to a negative audience response after a test screening.
2000 	The End of the World 	Pierre Chapeteau 	Main starring role
He also performed and starred in the music video for the song "The End is Near"
Acting role
2002 	Doraemon: The Secret Gadget Museum 	Nobu Nobi 	Original workprints of English dub only.
After the test audience didn't like Nobu's whiny and overreacting voice, Michael was dropped from the role. Thus, Nobu's voice has been redubbed by Rob Rackstraw, who voiced Nobu from late 1997-early 1999.
Sequel to the 1997 film Doraemon and the Curse of the Space Case
Replacement: Rob Rackstraw
2002 	Berry Blast Off: Sour Supreme! 	Narrator/Blue Raspberry/Sour Blue Raspberry/Additional Voices 	Cancelled threequel to Berry Blast Off.
Voice only.
Major role.
This was another animated film attempt, this time Columbia/Tri-Star and Mainframe Entertainment worked on this film without Warner Bros. Feature Animation's involvement. Due to another troubling test screening, this film was scrapped.
Once again, the voice cast was changed, this time containing a Montreal voice cast. Only Michael Dobson, Paul Dobson, Brian Dobson, Michael E. Rodgers, Pierre Salvador, and Marlowe Gardiner-Heslin returned for their roles.
2002 	Thomas the Tank Engine 2: The Adventure Continues	Mr. Conductor, Junior 	Cancelled sequel to Thomas and the Magic Railroad
2018 	Fireman Sam: An Incredible Discovery 	Hector Dermont 	Placeholder voice only.
Heard on trailers and TV adverts of the film
Successor: Jimmy Hibbert
== Official Commercial Roles ==
Year	Company 	Commercial 	Notes
2001	Apple IDVD 	 	First official commercial role
Hard to find on the internet
2001	VW Jetta 	 	Hard to find on the internet
2002	Michelob Light 	A Bad Night	Hard to find on the internet
Used to be on Spike TV's official website
2004	Head and Sholders	 	Hard to find on the internet
== Unofficial Commercial Roles ==
Year	Company 	Name 	Notes
1999	Fox Kids Europe	Doraemon is Next Door 	Can be found on the UK boxset of Doraemon: The Complete 1st Series
1999	Fox Kids Europe	Saban VS. Saban 	Can be found on the UK boxset of Perman: Kid Superhero!: The Complete 1st Series
1999	Fox Kids Europe	Oh, No! The Laughing Salesman is Behind Me!	Can be found on the UK boxset of The Laughing Salesman: The Complete 1st Series
== Unofficial Performer ==
Year 	Song Name 	Notes
1996 	I'm Feeling Lonely 	This song was Michael's first attempt at singing, and it was an amateur sad song. He has produced, written, and recorded the song (with an old audio recorder) all by himself in his bedroom without any interruptions. Then, he made an audio file on his computer and sent it to a small sub-label of Sony Music Entertainment. They liked it and the song was set for release, despite the poor audio quality. 
According to what Michael said in a private audio interview, while he was quietly sobbing and weeping in tears, he said that the reason why he wrote this song was because he felt heartbroken by his friends after they left him one day, and he couldn't stop thinking about "that dreadful memory".
The song's dramatic music video first aired only once in South Africa, before it was taken off the air due to the bad audio quality. The music video later on aired on various MTV channels around the world during a music video countdown show, and it recieved a moderate success. When the video aired on MTV, the editors removed the static-like buzzing noise from the audio and they remastered the audio. After about two or three weeks, the video was taken off the air for the same reason, despite the remastered and cleared audio quality.
1997-2000	Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future	Opening theme song for the 1997-2005 English dub of Doraemon Successor: Unknown
1997-2000	Doraemon: Planet of Happiness 	Original Japanese closing theme song of Doraemon, dubbed into English.
Successor: Unknown
1997-2001	Perman: the Kid Superhero! 	Opening and closing theme song for Perman: Kid Superhero!, the Fox Kids English dub of Perman.
1997-2001	Oh, No! The Laughing Salesman! 	Opening and closing theme song for the English dub of The Laughing Salesman.
Due to the dark tone of the song and the frightened, high-pitched tone of Michael E. Rodgers' voice, a rerecorded version with a more tamer and cleaner tone of the lyrics and a more cartoonish tone of Michael's voice was used when Jetix Europe reaired the anime.
1999 	Makin' Some Chocolate (Mix it Up) 	A song included in the soundtrack of the Fox Kids Europe English dub of Ninja Hattori.
Featuring Tabatha St. Germain (voice of Hattori), Gideon Emery (voice of Kenny (Kenichi)), Matt Winkinston (voice of Kemuzo Kentoto (Kemuzo Kekumaki)), and Jillian Michaels (voice of Sneek (Kagechiyo))
A live action/animated music video starring Michael E. Rodgers and four of the characters of the anime can be found on the UK boxset of Ninja Hattori: The Complete 1st Series as an extra.
This song was originally going to be a song from the extremely rare original video animation adaption of a prototype of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, when Junior, a male Skitty who is the team leader, suddenly learned how to make pink-colored chocolate from Pecha Berries. The song was titled "Pink Chocolate" and was performed in Japanese by Junior's Japanese voice actor, but the song was scrapped and turned into this song.
1999 	Love Potion 	A song exclusive for release in South Korea and in Southeast Asia
1999 	Goodbye, Doraemon 	A song in the soundtrack of Doraemon: 60 Minutes into the Future
1999 	Colours, Rainbows, or Darkness? 	A controversal, dark comedic song that is disguised as a normal song for young children. Despite the song not being released, the controversal music video was included in the Latin American and French Canadian VHS and DVD copies of Doraemon's Music Shack: The Best of 1999. The song was also heard and it's music video was briefly seen in the English dubbed Tokyo Mountain episode "The Quest for the Controversal VHS"
2000 	The End is Near 	A song for the controversal Bollywood film The End of the WorldThis song was recorded in Hindi, English, French, Arabic, and Urdu
This song and the music video was banned after the first screening due to frightening references to "the end of the world" and due to the suggesstive atmosphere of the music video. Another reason for the ban is because of Michael's dramatic breakdown at the end of the video.
The CBFC has gace the music video an A rating due to "Suggestive Material and Horror", while the BBFC gave the music video a 12 rating for "Suggestive Themes".
2000 	It Must be Magic 	An unreleased cover that was supposed to be on the soundtrack to Thomas and the Magic Railroad and the UK soundtrack to Detective Conan: Captured in Her Eyes. The reason for it's unreleased status is because of the bankrupcy of a small music record company by Sony Music International and due to Shogakukan Records not getting the rights to the song.
This song is a pop cover of the song of the same name by an unknown artist.
2001-2002	Hypnosis Trip 	The song was recorded in 2001, while it's music video was also filmed in the same year. The song wasn't released until it's music video aired on CBS at Christmas Eve 2002.
The song is only an instrumental, and there were no vocals. Originally, Michael E. Rodgers wrote lyrics to this song and recorded a demo, but then he decided to try out an instrumental with no lyrics.
2002 	Red, Yellow, and Blue 	A song that was included in the Japanese anime Tokyo Mountain (S7E5 "Come On, Leopold!")
== Unofficial Presenter ==
Year 	Title 	Channel 	Notes
1996-1999	Nintendo's Impossible Game Challenge	Challenge/The Children's Channel (TCC)/Fox Kids	Major role.
== Gallery ==
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