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The Sonic Adventure Voice Actors
-- I did some research into the
voice actors for Sonic Adventure, and I have some stuff to
share. First off, they ARE professional actors, whether you like it
or not. Second, Ryan Drummond IS the voice of Sonic. I found this at
several sites, one of which is the well-respected Internet Movie
Database (http://www.imdb.com/). He's 5'11", he's 27 years old, and
his birthday is January 10, 1973 (born in Lima, Ohio). He plays the
role of the "theater boy" in the upcoming movie Cheer Fever,
about some highschool cheerleader portrayed by Kirsten Dunce. The
"Aw yeah, this is happening!" man has also made appearances on
Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place (in the episode "Two
Guys, a Girl, and an Elective") and Baywatch (playing
"Announcer/Johnny Jam" in the episode "Leo's Last Chance").
Drummond's E-mail address is hiccup42@yahoo.com, and he
hails from the Bobby Ball Agency. I pity him.
Corey Bringas is most definately Tails, unless
Knuckles, Amy, Gamma, Big, Robotnik, Tikal, Pachacamac, or the
police officer is voiced by a little boy. In fact, here's the little
twerp's picture:
Corey
was featured on his agent (Shamon Freitas Agency)'s "Talent of the
Month" page, where they listed some current stuff that's been
happening in Corey's business life. Wonder how well he knows his
ABC's...
- A principal role on The Michael Landon, Jr. Story - A
Father's Son
- A national SEGA voice-over currently airing [unless Sega
Channel has risen from the dead, the "airing" part is an error]
- Playing the stand-in for the main character, Chance, in The
Shaun Cassidy/Stu Segall Production of Cover Me
- An educational industrial for an east coast client
- An industrial recently for SeaWorld where Corey had "the time
of his life" riding the dolphins for a full day
Speakin' of SeaWorld, there's a dude
there named Ryan Drummond. I'm not sure if this is the "Hey, I'll
play with you some other time!" Ryan Drummond, but here's the guy's
picture anyway:
SeaWorld
lists him as "Comedian and host of the Clyde and Seamore show." I'm
frightened... (Picture taken from LynnHarper.com. No, I have no idea
who Lynn Harper is, my search engine just stumbled upon their
"SeaWorld Guests" page...)
Michael McGaharn (Knuckles) is a comedian who
does mostly voiceover. It's notable that he played the unfortunate
role of Ken in a Detective Barbie game... "It's up to me to
find the missing pieces of Barbie's earrings." Spare me, please.
While we're at it, here's a picture of the Emerald hunting man.
And
here's
the "Izzat all you got?" dude demoing a bunch of his ads (source:
Voicetrax). It's actually quite suprising that this guy seems to be
good at comedy; he seemed to fall through slightly at the serious
voice of Knuckles, but I think he did relatively well. But listening
to this RA is just freaky, man. McGaharn has also done ads for Jack
in the Box, Target, Jenny Craig, IBM, Baskin Robbins, Nike, and a
whole bunch of other corporations, as well as a voice-over for an
Ace Ventura CD-ROM (a game, I presume, this is based off
information from Voicetrax which simply said, "Ace Ventura
(CD-Rom)". He also plays Detective Harry Bates in the satirical
live-action film Blondes Have More Guns. His E-mail address
is mimcg@ibm.net.
Jennifer Douillard, or at least a
Jennifer Douillard, has some sort of affiliation with XETV TV in
Canada. Don't ask me.
According to MobyGames, Jon St. John has done
Revenant (as Additional Voice Talent, 1999), Eidos
Interactive; Balls Of Steel (as Duke Nukem and Scientist #1,
1997), GT Interactive (developed by Apogee, Pinball Wizards, and
Wildfire Studios); All the Duke Nukem games (as Duke Nukem),
various; Big Red Racing (as an announcer, 1995),
Domark (developed by Big Red Software). Odd that they didn't
mention Sonic Adventure, though. (After hearing some WAVs of Duke's
voice, I think he's Big. They both sound braindead...) In addition,
there's a Jon St. John working at St. John Artists, "An Agency for
Recording Artists, Rock and Show Entertainers." I'm not sure if this
is the "Where could my poliwog pal be anyway?" St. John, but his
E-mail address is jsj@stjohn-artists.com. Jon
St. John is currently working on Opposing Forces, playing the
part of Cpl. Shephard's drill seargant.
Say, while we're at it, here's an excerpt of a
PC Gamer interview with Jon St. John (regarding Duke Nukem,
unfortunately):
PCGAMER: Who would win in a fight, you or Bruce Campbell?
Have you ever met him? Jon St. John: Good question! I
think that would be me (based on the fact that I am a larger man
than Bruce, I'm not a pampered Hollywood actor, and I fight dirty.)
Have I ever met him? No, I don't believe that I have ever met Bruce,
but I do remember him from Brisco County Jr., and THE EVIL DEAD, and
I understand that he's now doing some multimedia voice-overs. Hey
Bruce...I'm not out there trying to get film roles... how about
leaving the voice-overs to us voice guys, huh? PCGAMER: Do
you ever feel embarrassed for taking some of Bruce Campbell's
trademark lines? Jon St. John: Ummm... nope. I don't write
the scripts -- I just lend my voice to them. But you must admit,
Duke makes them sound like his own.
I found that at some Campbell freak's website.
The webmaster, upon seeing this interview, became incredibly
irritated with the actor of the fat cat.
I honestly found nothing on Elara Distler.
A Deem Bristow has appeared in Freeway
(as "TV interviewer," 1988), Glitch! (Role unknown, 1988) and
Terminal Exposure aka Double Exposure (as "Anchorman,"
1987), as well as a guest appearance in Quantum Leap (as
"King" in the episode "The Play's the Thing," 1989). However, the
voice actor Deem Bristow (who may be the same guy)'s voice can be
found here. The best I
can make out is Gamma, but even that's a stretch... And, um, Bristow
attended the San Diego Comic Con in 1999. Like that helps us any...
There are so many Steve Brodies in the world, I
can't possibly figure out which one worked on Sonic Adventure.
However, there is a Steve Brodie in the Shamon Freitas Agency (where
Corey Bringas is from), so here's that Brodie's picture...
An
old man. I'm guessing Robotnik and Pachacamac...
Well, here's the cast that I'm sure of:
- Ryan Drummond - Sonic The Hedgehog
- Corey Bringas - Miles "Tails" Prower
- Michael McGaharn - Knuckles The Echidna, and possibly the SSPD
officer
- Jennifer Douillard - Probably Amy Rose, 'cause she's the first
of the two females credited
- Jon St. John - Big The Cat
- Elara Distler - Tikal, probably, 'cause nobody else could
(except for Jennifer Douillard). Although I don't even know
Distler's gender, but 'Elara' sounds female to me...
- Deem Bristow - E-102g
- Steve Brodie - The only characters I can think of that could
be voiced by an old man are Dr. Ivo Robotnik and Pachacamac. And
villains tend to be credited last...
This leaves the voice of the Egg Carrier
and the woman from Station Square. Oh well. Well, there you go. You
have no idea how many hours that took.
-- D-H Master
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