Greg Eagles | |
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Eagles at the 2020 GalaxyCon Richmond | |
Born | (1970-10-28) October 28, 1970 (age 54) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1993–present |
Greg Eagles (born October 28, 1970) is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise since 2007, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.
Career
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Eagles began his acting career in 1993, when he made his professional acting debut in the television film Blindsided, where he played a detective. His other live acting credits include How to Live with Your Parents, L.A Heat, NYPD Blue, Pair of Kings, Sister, Sister, Snowfall, Teeth and Blood, The Burning Zone, The Hepburn Effect and The Riches.
He also works extensively as a voice actor, he has provided numerous characters voices in various animated films, anime, television shows and video games. Eagles voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's animated series Grim & Evil and its spin-off series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He has also reprised the role in an episode the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door and in the video games, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion. In anime, he voiced O'Connor in 8 Man After, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Resurrection and Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda in Bleach. He also voiced Brother 6 and Rokutaro in the Afro Samurai video game.
Since 2007, he has been the voice of Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, beginning with Crash of the Titans. He has since reprised the role in Crash: Mind over Mutant, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Additionally, he also provided the voices of Jax Briggs and Baraka in Mortal Kombat X, and Gray Fox, Donald Anderson, and various other characters in the Metal Gear Solid franchise.
Eagles also created and starred in Teapot, an animated pilot about a boy who wishes to be a rapping superstar that aired as part of Random! Cartoons. The pilot was storyboarded and art directed by Dahveed Kolodny Nagy (creator of Supa Pirate Booty Hunt) as well as Alex Almaguer, who worked as a writer and storyboard artist on Billy & Mandy, and directed by Robert Alvarez. He is planning to turn the pilot into a full TV-series when it gets picked up, even making an online opening sequence and full theme song. The cartoon short also had a Kickstarter and a now-lost Indiegogo campaign for a video game adaption, Teapot Rap it Up! but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal.
Filmography
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1993 | Blindsided | Detective #1 | Television film |
1994 | Sister, Sister | Customer | Episode: "Joey's Choice" |
1995 | ABC Weekend Special | Sly Boy | Episode: "Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale" |
1996, 2010 | The Bold and the Beautiful | Waiter, Kevin | 3 episodes |
1996 | What a Cartoon! | Fix (voice) | Episode: "Buy One, Get One Free" |
1996 | The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest | Karl (voice) | Episode: "Manhattan Maneater" |
1996 | The Burning Zone | Zairian | Episode: "Blood Covenant" |
1997 | NYPD Blue | Wright Jamison | Episode: "Shady Dealings" |
1998 | Dexter's Laboratory | Various voices | 2 episodes |
1998 | Invasion America | Phil Stark (voice) | 13 episodes |
1998 | Oh Yeah! Cartoons | Stinger (voice) | Episode: "The Feelers" |
1998–1999 | Cow and Chicken | Various voices | 2 episodes |
1999 | Todd McFarlane's Spawn | Charles (voice) | 2 episodes |
1999 | The Wild Thornberrys | Giraffe, Wildebeest (voice) | Episode: "Stick Your Neck Out" |
1999 | The Powerpuff Girls | Sandman (voice) | Episode: "You Snooze, You Lose" |
1999 | Batman Beyond | Max's Dad, Jokerz Member (voice) | 2 episodes |
1999 | Crashbox | Various voices | |
2000 | Lobo | Lobo (voice) | Web series; 6 episodes |
2000 | Johnny Bravo | Norm, Player #3 (voice) | Episode: "Air Bravo" |
2001 | The Zeta Project | Old Man (voice) | Episode: "The Accomplice" |
2001–2002 | Grim & Evil | Grim (voice) | Main cast |
2003–2007 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Grim (voice) | Main cast |
2004 | Megas XLR | Cal, Guy #1 (voice) | Episode: "DMV: Department of Megas Violations" |
2007 | Afro Samurai | Rokutaro (voice) | |
2007 | Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure | Grim (voice) | Television film |
2007 | Wrath of the Spider Queen | Grim, Sperg (voice) | Television film |
2007 | Random! Cartoons | Teapot (voice) | Episode: "Teapot"; also creator |
2007 | The Grim Adventures of the KND | Grim (voice) | Television film |
2007–2008 | Bleach | Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda (voice) | |
2008 | The Riches | Mark | Episode: "Field of Dreams" |
2008 | Underfist: Halloween Bash | Grim, Candy Bar (voice) | Television film |
2009 | Afro Samurai: Resurrection | Rokutaro (voice) | Television film |
2010–2012 | Pair of Kings | Tarantula Witch Doctor | 4 episodes |
2013 | How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) | Long-Haired Dude | Episode: "Pilot" |
2015 | The Hepburn Effect | Bo Dollar | Short film; also director and producer |
2016 | Bunnicula | Rusty Bones (voice) | Episode: "Garlicked" |
2017 | Snowfall | Husky | Episode: "Baby Teeth" |
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2002 | Globehunters: An Around the World in Eighty Days Adventure | Old Lion, Tiger | Voice |
2007 | Garfield Gets Real | Eli | |
2008 | Garfield's Fun Fest | ||
2009 | Garfield's Pet Force | ||
2012 | Foodfight! | Hairless Hamster Henchman | |
2012 | Batman: The Dark Knight Returns | Mackie, Ben Derrick | Voice; direct-to-video |
2015 | Teeth and Blood | Vampire Priest |
Video games
Theme park attractions
- The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad – Narrator
References
- "Teapot 'Rap It Up' Animated Video Game".
- ^ "Greg Eagles (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:30:01 in, VOICE TALENT.
- NetherRealm Studios. Mortal Kombat X. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Kredits, 3:30 in, English Voice Talent.
- Brian Chard (April 14, 2015). "Huge thanks to the stellar MKX voice actors: Troy @TroyBakerVA (Shinnok/EBlack/Fujin), Ronald M. Banks (Quan Chi); Ashly Burch (Cassie)..." (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
Brian Chard (April 14, 2015). "... Steve Blum (SubZero/Reptile/Bo'RaiCho); Johnny Yong Bosch (Kung Jin); Andrew @AndrewSBowen (Johnny/Smoke/Rain); Greg Eagles (Jax/Baraka)" (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter. - Goslin, Austen (October 1, 2020). "Crash Bandicoot 4 feels like it's from the '90s, but not in a good way". Polygon. Retrieved June 5, 2024.
External links
- Greg Eagles at IMDb
- Greg Eagles at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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- 20th-century African-American male actors
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