Neil Kaplan

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Not to be confused with Neil Trevor Kaplan.
Neil Kaplan
Born (1967-03-09) March 9, 1967 (age 58)
Bayonne, New Jersey
Other names Neil Caplan, Bob Bobson, Bob Johnson
Occupation Voice actor, comedian
Notable credit(s) Transformers: Robots in Disguise
as Optimus Prime
Digimon
as Hawkmon
Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
as Diabolico
Naruto Shippuden
as Tobi, Madara
Website http://www.nekap.net

Neil Kaplan (born March 9, 1967 in Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American voice actor, entertainer and comedian.

Biography

Kaplan grew up in San Jose, California. He 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 many Star Wars titles. From there he went on to do such shows as Power Rangers, Digimon: Digital Monsters, and most recently, Transformers: Robots in Disguise. One of his most famous voices is Hawkmon from Digimon. His favorite role was the "utility guy" on a show called The Mouse and the Monster, which aired on UPN in 1996–1997. He played stomachs, ghosts, and Sappy the Clown, among dozens of other characters on that show. Kaplan was also once a contestant on the popular comedy game show, Street Smarts. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. Kaplan was invited as a guest to the Power Morphicon (in Los Angeles) in June 2007 as well as August 2010, and to Armageddon (in Australia and New Zealand) in October 2007. He created the TV show,The Way it WASN'T!, as well as the graphic novel, I, of the Wolf.[1] He also voices the main character in the "Adult" video game BoneCraft.[2]

Voice Roles

Anime

Animation

Video Games

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Live-action roles

References

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External links

Preceded by Voice of Optimus Prime
2001–2002
Robots in Disguise		 Succeeded by
Garry Chalk
2002–2006
Unicron Trilogy

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  1. ↑ The concept for I, O The Wolf was initially developed while Kaplan was in attendance at the Transformers convention Auto Assembly over a meal in a Chinese restaurant with some of the conventions other guests. Source: convention organiser
  2. ↑ http://bonecraft.net/bonecraft/voice-actor-neil-kaplan-signs-on-to-bonecraft-as-captain-fort-worth/
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