Neil Charles Kaplan is an American voice actor, audiobook narrator, entertainer, and comedian. His best-known voice roles are Hawkmon from Digimon, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto from Bleach, Emperor Zarkon from Voltron: Legendary Defender and Madara Uchiha from Naruto.
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Biography
Kaplan got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little-known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including several Star Wars titles. From there he went on to do such shows as Power Rangers, Digimon: Digital Monsters and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. He was once a contestant on the game show Street Smarts. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. He was a guest to the Power Morphicon (in Los Angeles) in June 2007 and August 2010, to Armageddon (in Australia and New Zealand) in October 2007, and to AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival (in Australia) in July 2018. He also created the television series The Way it WASN'T! and the graphic novel I, of the Wolf. He voices Captain Fort Worth in the adult video game BoneCraft.
Filmography
Films
Digimon: The Movie – Twin Boy 1, Computer Voice 2, Professor, Hawkmon, Halsemon
Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning as Hawkmon
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (standalone dub) - Professor, Little Boy 2C
Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals (standalone dub) - Hawkmon, Halsemon
Dragon Quest: Your Story – Dr. Agon, Zenith Dragon
Ghost Cat Anzu – Old Man Mushroom
Muhammad: The Last Prophet – 'Amr ibn al-'As, The Spy
The Happy Cricket – Toad #1
The Little Polar Bear – Bert
Promare – Vulcan Haestus
Live-action
Beetleborgs Metallix – Hornix, Witch Doctor (voices, credited as Bob Johnson)
Big Bad Beetleborgs – Venus Claptrap (voice, credited as Bob Johnson)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie – Oozemen (voice, uncredited)
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue – Diabolico, Gold Beaked Monster (voices)
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy – Destruxo (voice), Mutantrum (2nd voice)
Power Rangers Time Force – Gluto (voice), Recap Narrator (voice, uncredited)
