Richard Epcar

Richard Epcar (born April 29, in Denver, Colorado) is an American actor/voice actor/director. He has voiced over three hundred different characters in games and animation. He is mostly known for voicing Batou in Ghost in the Shell, Ansem/Xenahort in Kingdom Hearts, Radin in Mortal Kombat, Zengetsu and Koga in Bleach and the Joker in MK vs DC to name just a few. He is the husband of voice actress Ellyn Stern, with whom he owns and operates Epcar Entertainment, Inc., a voiceover production service company based in Los Angeles, California.

He is very pleased to be cast in The Legend of Korra.

Selected other credits

 * Bleach as Zangetsu, Mr. Kagine, Gō Koga, Medazeppi, Goethe, Baura
 * Blue Dragon as Killer Bat
 * Cyborg 009 as Black Ghost Commander Scarl
 * Digimon Adventure as Etemon, MetalEtemon, Myotismon/VemonMytismon
 * Digimon Adventure 02 as MaloMyotismon, Triceramon
 * Digimon Frontier as SuperStarmon
 * Digimon Data Squad as Merukimon
 * Eagle Riders as Rocky
 * eX-Driver as Munakata
 * Fighting Spirit as Genji Kamogawa
 * Fushigi Yūgi as Mitsukake
 * Gatchaman as Rocky
 * Ghost Shell series as Batuo
 * Gundam as Kelly
 * Gundam Unicorn as Daguza
 * Lucky Star as Tadao Hiirage
 * Mega Man Star Force as Cancer
 * Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and Mortal Kombat (2011) as Raiden
 * Naruto and Naruto Shippuden as Manda
 * Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts Re:chain of memories and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep as Ansem, Seeker of Darkness, Xehanort, and Terra-Xehanort
 * Xenosaga Episode 1, 2 and 3 as Ziggy

Personal life
Richard Epcar graduated from the University of Arizona in 1979. He is married with one son and one daughter. He is currently residing in Denver, Colorado.

Career
Epcar's career spans thirty-two years. He is one of the hardest working men in show biz, having voiced over three hundred characters in games, animation and anime starting with Robotech. He is Batou in Ghost in the Shell, Jiggen in Lupin the Third, Mr. Noisy in the Mr. Men Show, Zangetsu and Koga in Bleach, and he also starred in Digimon, Power Rangers, and Bobobo-bobobobo to name just a few. Recently he is on Avatar: Legend of Korra. Some games you've heard him on are Kingdom Hearts, Transformers, Star Wars, Mortal Kombat, Catherine, ModNation Racers, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Call of Duty-Black Ops, Dead Space, Star Craft, Red Faction Guerilla, Command & Conquer, Xenosaga, Guilty Gears, Hack, World of Warcraft, and Resident Evil.

He is also a sought after game-animation voice / ADR director having directed such games as Star Ocean, Blue Dragon, Unreal Tournament, Smackdown vs. Raw and Jackass. Some shows he's directed are Lupin the Third, Ghost in the Shell 2, Noein, Fighting Spirit, and Robotech: Shadow Chronicles.

On Camera he has appeared in many films and t.v. shows including, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Guns of Paradise, Beverly Hills 90210, Matlock, Cheers, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and soon to be seen as one of the leads in the feature Broken Spirits. You can hear him in Rise of the Planet of the Apes as the voice of Buck the big gorilla. He's also the narrator and forty different characters in the new Doc Savage audio Book, White Eyes.