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

Non-anime

Film

Video games

Source
2007Bullet WitchAdditional voices[9]
M&M's Kart Racing Red, Orange, Blue, Yellow[10]
2008Super Smash Bros. BrawlLucario, Bonsly, Weavile
M&M's Adventure Red, Yellow, Uncle Sam
2010Empoleon, Croagunk[11]
Heathcliff: The Fast and the FurriestHeathcliff
2014Demon GazeMaury, Zubo, Kuro
2016Street Fighter V Urien
2017King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule
Dark Rose ValkyrieVictor Franson
Demon Gaze IICanis
2018Detective Pikachu Brad McMaster
PaladinsDredge, Dark Lord Torvald
Epic Seven Krau, Sven
2019Lucien
2020King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule
2021Additional voices[12]
2022RelayerCaptain Gillian[13]
2023Octopath Traveler IIAdditional voices[14]
2023Detective Pikachu ReturnsBrad McMaster[15]

Production credits

Voice director

Script adaptation

Producer

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. Web site: Netflix's Live Action Pokémon Series: Casting The Potential Roles. 29 July 2021.
  3. Web site: Staff/Cast. Cells at Work!. October 11, 2019.
  4. Closing credits . No × Good × NGL . Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep79 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . January 13, 2018 . 79.
  5. Closing credits . Beware × Of × Prisoners. Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep9 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . June 18, 2016 . 9.
  6. Closing credits . Trick × To × The Trick . Viz Media . List of Hunter × Hunter (2011) episodes#ep10 . Hunter × Hunter . Adult Swim . June 25, 2016 . 10.
  7. Toonami premier of One-Punch Man episode 8 and 10
  8. 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 .
  9. 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 .
  10. 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..
  11. Web site: Resume . Bill Rogers: Tales of Thespianage . 26 February 2021.
  12. 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..
  13. . Relayer . Clouded Leopard Entertainment . Ending credits, 14:11 in, EN CAST . 2022.
  14. Web site: Octopath Traveler II (2023 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 12 March 2023.
  15. Web site: Detective Pikachu Returns (2023 Video Game) . Behind The Voice Actors . 15 October 2023.
  16. http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/_img/movies/credits_1699.jpg Cast