Bill Rogers (voice actor) explained
Bill Rogers |
Birth Name: | William Rogers |
Occupation: | Voice actor |
Years Active: | 2001–present |
William Rogers is an American voice actor who primarily worked in the New York area for several years before moving to Los Angeles in 2015.
He has done work for various studios such as DuArt Film and Video, Ocon Animation Studios, Headline Studios, New Generation Pictures and Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
Career
Rogers began his voice over career in 2001, with the anime series Assemble Insert.[1]
He has worked on various dubs, and in stage productions, including Boogiepop Phantom as Anno, Cells at Work! as Pseudomonas Aeruginosa,Comic Party as Otaku, Genshiken as Tanaka Soichiro, Gokudo as Soldier, His and Her Circumstances as Pero Pero and Mr. Arima, Hunter x Hunter (2011) as Meleoron and Majitani, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny as Gakushuu, Narrator and Toutasu, To Heart as Imai, Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor as Red Dragon Sousou and Shuhou, K.O. Beast as Shaba and Kuroko's Basketball as Shinsuke Kimura.
Rogers is best known for voicing Tohma Seguchi in Gravitation and for voicing Brock, Drew and various other characters in the English dub of the long running anime series Pokémon, since Season 9.[2]
Other characters he voiced including Old Mage and Vuan in Legend of Lemnear, All Back-Man, Groribas and Tongue Stretcher in One-Punch Man, Bruno in Pokémon Generations, Elf Elder in Queen's Blade, Kanata Myouken in , Various characters in and Wheeljack in Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy.
He has also provided various character voices in numerous video games, including Bullet Witch, Red M&M and Yellow M&M in M&M's Kart Racing and M&M's Adventure, Lucario, Bonsly and Weavile in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Heathcliff in Heathcliff: The Fast and the Furriest, Urien in Street Fighter V, King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule in , Victor Franson in Dark Rose Valkyrie, and Dredge and Dark Lord Torvald in Paladins.
In addition to voice acting, he is also a voice director and a scriptwriter.
Filmography
Anime
- Assemble Insert – Prime Minister, Additional voices
- Boogiepop Phantom – Anno, Officer Yamamoto, Takashi, Yasushi Sanada
- Cells at Work! – Pseudomonas Aeruginosa[3]
- Comic Party – Otaku
- Genshiken – Tanaka Soichiro
- Gokudo – Soldier
- Gravitation – Tohma Seguchi
- His and Her Circumstances – Pero Pero, Mr. Arima, Additional voices
- Hunter x Hunter (2011) – Meleoron,[4] Majitani[5] [6]
- Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny – Gakushuu, Narrator, Toutasu
- Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor – Red Dragon Sousou, Shuhou
- K.O. Beast – Shaba
- Kuroko's Basketball - Shinsuke Kimura, Itsuku Matsumoto
- Legend of Lemnear – Old Mage, Vuan
- One-Punch Man – All Back-Man, Groribas,[7] Tongue Stretcher
- Pokémon – Brock, Drew, Ghetsis, Scott, Magikarp salesman, Dome Ace Tucker, Additional voices
- Pokémon Generations – Bruno
- Queen's Blade – Elf Elder
- – Kanata Myouken
- – Various characters
- To Heart – Imai
- Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Wheeljack
Non-anime
- Elerctro Cute! – Announcer, Booklet, Yarn Dog
- The Frappinos – Nevillea Kirn
- Never Among Friends – Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Robot Trains – Kay
- Tarchin and Friends – Kakule
Film
- Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea – Brock, Sceptile, Corphish
- – Brock, Sudowoodo, Croagunk, Darkrai
- – Brock, Chimchar, Sudowoodo, Croagunk
- – Brock, Monferno, Sudowoodo, Croagunk
- – Brock, Infernape, Sudowoodo, Croagunk
- – Stunfisk
- – Stunfisk
- Pet Pals in Windland – Cuncun
- – Lucario, Additional voices[8]
- – Additional voices
- – Sudowoodo, Additional voices
- – Brock
- Poby, Crong (voice, uncredited)
- Pororo, the Snow Fairy Village Adventure Poby, Crong, Lava Monster (voice, uncredited)
Video games
Production credits
Voice director
Script adaptation
Producer
- The Frappinos
- Dark Passages
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Bill Rogers talks voicing Urien, why acting in fighting games can be especially difficult and more in this exclusive interview. Ginni 'extopdoll' Lou, EventHubs. special. October 15, 2017. EventHubs.
- Web site: Netflix's Live Action Pokémon Series: Casting The Potential Roles. 29 July 2021.
- Web site: Staff/Cast. Cells at Work!. October 11, 2019.
- Closing credits . No × Good × NGL . Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep79 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . January 13, 2018 . 79.
- Closing credits . Beware × Of × Prisoners. Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep9 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . June 18, 2016 . 9.
- Closing credits . Trick × To × The Trick . Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep10 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . June 25, 2016 . 10.
- Toonami premier of One-Punch Man episode 8 and 10
- billsvoice . Bill . Rogers . Bill Rogers (voice actor) . Happy to reprise my role as Lucario in the 20th Pokemon movie. Missed it? There's 3 more screenings Nov 6, 11 & 14. http://www.fathomevents.com/events/pokemon-the-movie … . November 5, 2017 . November 7, 2017 . 927417225065017345 .
- Web site: Bill Rogers – Voice Actor Profile at Voice Chasers . Voicechasers.com . 2011-04-21 . 2017-01-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170104234345/http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=4869 . dead .
- Web site: Bill Rogers (visual voices guide). Behind The Voice Actors. November 7, 2019. . 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 opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information..
- Web site: Resume . Bill Rogers: Tales of Thespianage . 26 February 2021.
- Web site: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (2021 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 1 December 2021. . 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 opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information..
- . Relayer . Clouded Leopard Entertainment . Ending credits, 14:11 in, EN CAST . 2022.
- Web site: Octopath Traveler II (2023 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 12 March 2023.
- Web site: Detective Pikachu Returns (2023 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 15 October 2023.
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