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 – Twin Boy 1, Computer Voice 2, Professor, Hawkmon, Halsemon Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning as Hawkmon Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals (standalone dub) - Hawkmon, Halsemon Dragon Quest: Your Story – Dr. Agon, Zenith Dragon Ghost Cat Anzu – Old Man Mushroom 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, Him Conan – Bone Cleaver Conan Exiles - Nunu the Cannibal, Additional Voices 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 – Cocoon Inhabitants 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 Honkai: Star Rail - Duke Inferno Infamous First Light – Additional Voices Justice League Heroes – Gorilla Grodd League of Legends – Aurelion Sol Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII – Additional Voices Marvel Heroes – Sabretooth, Venom Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection – Taurus Fire 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 Spider-Man Unlimited - Daemos, Jennix

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)