Greg Eagles

Greg Eagles
Eagles at the 2020 GalaxyCon Richmond
Born (1970-10-28) October 28, 1970 (age 54)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1993–present

Greg Eagles (born October 28, 1970) 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. He also voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad on HBO's Canadian-American children's television series Crashbox, Brother 6 and Rokutaro in Afro Samurai, Aku Aku in the Crash Bandicoot video game franchise since 2007, and several characters in the Metal Gear Solid games.

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. 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 the role in an episode the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door and in the video games, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion. 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 adaption, Teapot Rap it Up! but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal.[1]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Blindsided Detective #1 Television film
1994 Sister, Sister Customer Episode: "Joey's Choice"
1995 ABC Weekend Special Sly Boy Episode: "Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale"
1996, 2010 The Bold and the Beautiful Waiter, Kevin 3 episodes
1996 What a Cartoon! Fix (voice) Episode: "Buy One, Get One Free"[2]
1996 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Karl (voice) Episode: "Manhattan Maneater"[2]
1996 The Burning Zone Zairian Episode: "Blood Covenant"
1997 NYPD Blue Wright Jamison Episode: "Shady Dealings"
1998 Dexter's Laboratory Various voices 2 episodes
1998 Invasion America Phil Stark (voice) 13 episodes
1998 Oh Yeah! Cartoons Stinger (voice) Episode: "The Feelers"[2]
1998–1999 Cow and Chicken Various voices 2 episodes[2]
1999 Todd McFarlane's Spawn Charles (voice) 2 episodes[2]
1999 The Wild Thornberrys Giraffe, Wildebeest (voice) Episode: "Stick Your Neck Out"[2]
1999 The Powerpuff Girls Sandman (voice) Episode: "You Snooze, You Lose"[2]
1999 Batman Beyond Max's Dad, Jokerz Member (voice) 2 episodes[2]
1999 Crashbox Various voices [2]
2000 Lobo Lobo (voice) Web series; 6 episodes
2000 Johnny Bravo Norm, Player #3 (voice) Episode: "Air Bravo"[2]
2001 The Zeta Project Old Man (voice) Episode: "The Accomplice"[2]
2001–2002 Grim & Evil Grim (voice) Main cast
2003–2007 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Grim (voice) Main cast[2]
2004 Megas XLR Cal, Guy #1 (voice) Episode: "DMV: Department of Megas Violations"[2]
2007 Afro Samurai Rokutaro (voice) [2]
2007 Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure Grim (voice) Television film[2]
2007 Wrath of the Spider Queen Grim, Sperg (voice) Television film[2]
2007 Random! Cartoons Teapot (voice) Episode: "Teapot"; also creator
2007 The Grim Adventures of the KND Grim (voice) Television film
2007–2008 Bleach Zommari Rureaux, Gantenbainne Mosqueda (voice)
2008 The Riches Mark Episode: "Field of Dreams"
2008 Underfist: Halloween Bash Grim, Candy Bar (voice) Television film[2]
2009 Afro Samurai: Resurrection Rokutaro (voice) Television film[2]
2010–2012 Pair of Kings Tarantula Witch Doctor 4 episodes
2013 How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) Long-Haired Dude Episode: "Pilot"
2015 The Hepburn Effect Bo Dollar Short film; also director and producer
2016 Bunnicula Rusty Bones (voice) Episode: "Garlicked"[2]
2017 Snowfall Husky Episode: "Baby Teeth"

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2002 Globehunters: An Around the World in Eighty Days Adventure Old Lion, Tiger Voice[2]
2007 Garfield Gets Real Eli
2008 Garfield's Fun Fest
2009 Garfield's Pet Force
2012 Foodfight! Hairless Hamster Henchman
2012 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Mackie, Ben Derrick Voice; direct-to-video[2]
2015 Teeth and Blood Vampire Priest

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
1997 Interstate '76 Taurus
1998 Fallout 2 Sulik [2]
1998 Metal Gear Solid Gray Fox, Donald Anderson [2]
1999 Interstate '82 Taurus
1999 Revenant Ogrok Mort, Yhagoro, Townsmen [2]
2000 Star Trek: Klingon Academy Torlek
2000 Star Trek: New Worlds Additional voices
2001 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Peter Stillman [2]
2001 Star Trek: Armada II Additional voices
2002 Dexter's Laboratory: Mandark's Lab? Action Hank [2]
2002 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix William 'Butch' Abrams
2002 Dead to Rights Preacherman Jones, Rafshoon Diggs
2002 Eternal Darkness Michael Edwards, Chattur'gha [2]
2002 Icewind Dale II Additional voices
2002 Star Trek: Starfleet Command III Commander Jureth
2003 Hunter: The Reckoning – Wayward Joshua
2003 Hunter: The Reckoning – Redeemer Additional voices
2004 Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Donald Anderson [2]
2004 EverQuest II Additional voices [3]
2004 True Crime: New York City Additional voices
2005 Killer7 Garcian Smith [2]
2005 Quake 4 Morris
2006 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Grim [2]
2006 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Luke Cage [2]
2006 The Sopranos: Road to Respect Additional voices
2006 Superman Returns Citizens of Metropolis
2007 The Shield Marques Hendryx
2007 Crash of the Titans Aku Aku
2007 Unreal Tournament 3 Malcolm
2008 Crash: Mind over Mutant Aku Aku
2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Moto Moto [2]
2008 007: Quantum of Solace Steven Obanno
2008 Mercenaries 2: World in Flames Blanco
2009 FusionFall Grim
2009 Afro Samurai Rokutaro [2]
2011 Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion Grim
2013 Grand Theft Auto V Additional voices
2015 Mortal Kombat X Jax Briggs, Baraka [4][5]
2016 XCOM 2 US Soldier
2016 Mafia III Additional voices
2016 Skylanders: Imaginators Aku Aku [2]
2017 Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy Aku Aku [2]
2019 Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Aku Aku [2]
2020 Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time Aku Aku [6]

Theme park attractions

  • The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad – Narrator

References

  1. ^ "Teapot 'Rap It Up' Animated Video Game".
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj "Greg Eagles (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. ^ Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:30:01 in, VOICE TALENT.
  4. ^ NetherRealm Studios. Mortal Kombat X. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Kredits, 3:30 in, English Voice Talent.
  5. ^ Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "Huge thanks to the stellar MKX voice actors: Troy @TroyBakerVA (Shinnok/EBlack/Fujin), Ronald M. Banks (Quan Chi); Ashly Burch (Cassie)..." (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
    Brian Chard [@bcharred] (April 14, 2015). "... Steve Blum (SubZero/Reptile/Bo'RaiCho); Johnny Yong Bosch (Kung Jin); Andrew @AndrewSBowen (Johnny/Smoke/Rain); Greg Eagles (Jax/Baraka)" (Tweet). Retrieved April 21, 2015 – via Twitter.
  6. ^ Goslin, Austen (October 1, 2020). "Crash Bandicoot 4 feels like it's from the '90s, but not in a good way". Polygon. Retrieved June 5, 2024.