Richard Epcar
Legendary actor Richard Epcar – Gamepur’s Voice Actor of the Year is one of the hardest working men in show business, has voiced over 1,200 characters in Games, Animation and Anime. Best known as:
Raiden in “Mortal Kombat”, The Joker in several Batman games including “Injustice: Gods Among Us” (Fighting Game of the Year!) and “Mortal Kombat 11” (fighting game of the year!), Ansem in “Kingdom Hearts”, Joseph Joestar in “Jojo’s Vizarre Adventure”, Batou in “Ghost in the Shell”, Jigen in “Lupin the Third”, Akuma in “Street Fighter V”, Yhwach the Quincy King in “Bleach: The Thousand Year Blood War!”, Sandman in “Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3” and the Brigadier General in “Daemon x Machina!”
Voted one of the Top 20 Video Game Voice Actors of all Time and Top 20 Anime Actors of all time by IMDB! And Gamepur’s Top Ten Video Game Voice Actors of all time.
Starting out in Robotech, you’ve heard him in “Legend of Korra”, “Lupin the Third”, “Batman Unlimited”, “Bleach”, “Bobobo-bobobo”, “One Punch Man”, “Meglobox”, “Pokemon Generations” as Giovanni, & “Pokemon Masters”, “Dragon Ball Super”, “Berserk”, “Back Street Girls”, “Durarara”,
“Sirius the Jaeger”, “Dive Olly Dive”, “Marvel Disk Wars”, “Gormiti”, “Coppelion”, “Patema Inverted”, “Peabody & Sherman”, “Asterik War”, “Blood Lad”, “Monster”, “Naruto”, “Transformers”, “Kenshin”, “SAO II”,”GTO”, “A Lull in the Sea”, “Stitch & AI”, “HunterxHunter”, “Gundam”, “Macross”, “DC Super Friends”, “Cyber Solider 009”, “Lucky Star”, “Digimon”, “7 Deadly Sins”, “X-men”, “Gundam Unicorn”, “Babylon 5”, “Detective Conan” and “Power Rangers” to name a few!
He’s also in tons of games including: “Skyrim”, “Warhammer”, “Granblue”, “Blade 2”, “Lineage 2”,
“Elex 2”, “Overstrike”, “Bravely Default”, “Final Fantasy” as Gaius and Ilberd, “Saints Row”, “Mafia III”, “Arkham Origins”, “Persona 5”, “Infinite Crisis as the Joker”, “Call of Duty – Advanced Warfare”, “Mad Max”, “Fire Emblem: Awakening” as Walhart, “MK vs DC Universe” as the Joker and Raiden, “Stargate SG-1” as Gen. Hammond, “Call of Duty – Black Ops”, “Star Wars: Empire at War”, “Star Wars: Old
Republic”, “Transformers”, “Monster Hunter world”, “X-Com”, “Command & Conquer”, “Dead or Alive 3-D”, “Starcraft as Dark Templar”, “Dead Space”, “Xenosaga” as ziggy, “Marvel Heroes”, “World of Warcraft”, “Smite”, “Spec Ops”, “League of Legends” as Xin Zhao, “Naruto”, “Cowboy Bebop”, “Samurai Warriors”, “Blue Dragon”, “Star Ocean”, “Xenosaga”, “Splinter Cell”, “Guilty Gears”, “.Hack”, “Medal of Honor”, “Ghost Recon”, “Baton Kaitos Origins”, “Space Seige, “Spec-Ops”, “Bayonetta”, “Soulcalibur VI”, “Catherine”, “Tekken”, “Ace Combat”, “Modnation Racers”, and “Resident Evil”.
Richard has voice directed many games including:
“Arkham Origins”, “Dead Island: Riptide”, “Blue Dragon”, “Shadow Hearts II”, “Star Ocean 2, 3”, “Astellia”, “Gigantic X”, “Enemy Territory Quake Wars”, “Unreal Tournament 3”, “Jackass the Game”, “Smackdown vs. Raw”, and “Dead Head Fred” and voice directed many shows including: “Ghost in the Shell 2”, “Robotech: Shadow Chronicles”, “Almost Heroes”, “Jungle Shuffle”, “The Reef”, “Monchichi”, “Grand Master”, “Noein”, “Digimon”, “Lupin the III”, “Glitch”, “Fighting Spirit”, “Patlabor 3”, “Zentrix”, “Azumi I & II”, “Fearless”, “Betty Blue”, “Iron Monkey”, “VR Troopers”, “Power Rangers”, “Ugly Betty” Webisodes and “Old Boy” to name a few.
He has voice acted on several big films including: Deadpool 1 & 2, Warcraft, Planet of the Apes, X-men: First Class, Captain America: Winter Soldier and Resident Evil 3 to name just a few.
On camera Richard has appeared in many shows including: “Warehouse 13”, “Memoirs of an Invisible Man”, “Columbo”, “Diagnosis Murder”, “Matlock”, “Cheers”, “Days of our Lives”, “General Hospital”, and a lead in the film “Altered Spirits”.
