Greg Eagles

Greg Eagles is an American actor. He voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's Grim & Evil and its spin-off The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Blind Mud Puddle Johnson in Cartoon Network’s Cow and Chicken, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise since 2007, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.

Early life

Eagles grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a child, he was a fan of the Looney Tunes, especially veteran voice actor Mel Blanc and often did impressions.

Career

Eagles began his acting career in 1993, when he made his professional acting debut in the television film Blindsided, where he played a detective. His other live acting credits include How to Live with Your Parents, L.A Heat, NYPD Blue, Pair of Kings, Sister, Sister, Snowfall, Teeth and Blood, The Burning Zone, The Hepburn Effect and The Riches.

He also works extensively as a voice actor, he has provided numerous characters voices in various animated films, anime, television shows and video games. In 1998, Eagles voiced companion character Sulik in Fallout 2. He voiced Blind Mud Puddle Johnson in Cartoon Network's animated series Cow and Chicken. In 2001, Eagles voiced the Grim Reaper in Cartoon Network's animated series Grim & Evil and its spin-off series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He has also reprised that role in the video game of the same name, the other Cartoon Network video games FusionFall and Punch Time Explosion, and in The Grim Adventures of the KND, the crossover episode with fellow Cartoon Network series Codename: Kids Next Door. In anime, he voiced O'Connor in 8 Man After, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai and Afro Samurai: Resurrection and Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda in Bleach. He also voiced Brother 6 and Rokutaro in the Afro Samurai video game.

Since 2007, he has been the voice of Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise, beginning with Crash of the Titans. He has since reprised the role in Crash: Mind over Mutant, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. Additionally, he also provided the voices of Jax Briggs and Baraka in Mortal Kombat X, and Gray Fox, Donald Anderson, and various other characters in the Metal Gear Solid franchise.

Eagles also created and starred in Teapot, an animated pilot about a boy who wishes to be a rapping superstar that aired as part of Random! Cartoons. The pilot was storyboarded and art directed by Dahveed Kolodny Nagy (creator of Supa Pirate Booty Hunt) as well as Alex Almaguer, who worked as a writer and storyboard artist on Billy & Mandy, and directed by Robert Alvarez. He is planning to turn the pilot into a full TV-series when it gets picked up, even making an online opening sequence and full theme song. The cartoon short also had a Kickstarter and a now-lost Indiegogo campaign for a video game adaptation, Teapot Rap it Up!, but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Theme park attractions

External links

• at IMDb
• at Anime News Network's encyclopedia