Bill Rogers
Rogers at the Florida Supercon in 2009
Born
William Rogers
OccupationVoice actor
Years active2001–present
Websitebillsvoice.net

William Rogers is an American voice actor who primarily worked in the New York area for several years before moving to Los Angeles in 2015.

He has done work for various studios such as DuArt Film and Video, Ocon Animation Studios, Headline Studios, New Generation Pictures and Bang Zoom! Entertainment.

Career

Rogers began his voice over career in 2001, with the anime series Assemble Insert.[1]

He has worked on various dubs, and in stage productions, including Boogiepop Phantom as Anno, Cells at Work! as Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Comic Party as Otaku, Genshiken as Tanaka Soichiro, Gokudo as Soldier, His and Her Circumstances as Pero Pero and Mr. Arima, Hunter x Hunter (2011) as Meleoron and Majitani, Ikki Tousen: Dragon Destiny as Gakushuu, Narrator and Toutasu, To Heart as Imai, Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor as Red Dragon Sousou and Shuhou, K.O. Beast as Shaba and Kuroko's Basketball as Shinsuke Kimura.

Rogers is best known for voicing Tohma Seguchi in Gravitation and for voicing Brock, Drew and various other characters in the English dub of the long running anime series Pokémon, since Season 9.[2]

Other characters he voiced including Old Mage and Vuan in Legend of Lemnear, All Back-Man, Groribas and Tongue Stretcher in One-Punch Man, Bruno in Pokémon Generations, Elf Elder in Queen's Blade, Kanata Myouken in Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars, Various characters in The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye and Wheeljack in Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy.

He has also provided various character voices in numerous video games, including Bullet Witch, Red M&M and Yellow M&M in M&M's Kart Racing and M&M's Adventure, Lucario, Bonsly and Weavile in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Heathcliff in Heathcliff: The Fast and the Furriest, Urien in Street Fighter V, King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Victor Franson in Dark Rose Valkyrie, and Dredge and Dark Lord Torvald in Paladins.[3][4]

In addition to voice acting, he is also a voice director and a scriptwriter.

Filmography

Anime

Non-anime

  • Elerctro Cute! – Announcer, Booklet, Yarn Dog
  • The Frappinos – Nevillea Kirn
  • Never Among Friends – Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
  • Robot Trains – Kay[6]
  • Tarchin and Friends – Kakule[6]

Film

Video games

List of voice and dubbing performances in video games
Year Title Role Source
2007 Bullet Witch Additional voices [3]
M&M's Kart Racing Red, Yellow [4]
2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl Lucario, Bonsly, Weavile [4]
M&M's Adventure Red, Yellow, Uncle Sam [4]
2010 PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure Empoleon, Croagunk [6]
Heathcliff: The Fast and the Furriest Heathcliff [4]
2014 Demon Gaze Maury, Zubo, Kuro [6]
2016 Street Fighter V Urien [4]
2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule [4]
Dark Rose Valkyrie Victor Franson [6]
Demon Gaze II Canis [6]
2018 Detective Pikachu Brad McMaster [4]
Paladins Dredge, Dark Lord Torvald [4]
Epic Seven Krau, Sven [4]
2019 Mr Love: Queen's Choice Lucien [4]
Shenmue III Additional cast
2020 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity King Rhoam Bosphoramus Hyrule [4]
2021 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles Additional voices [12]
2022 Relayer Captain Gillian [13]
2023 Octopath Traveler II Additional voices [14]
2023 Detective Pikachu Returns Brad McMaster [15]

Production credits

Voice director

Script adaptation

Producer

  • The Frappinos
  • Dark Passages

References

  1. ↑ special, Ginni 'extopdoll' Lou, EventHubs (October 15, 2017). "Bill Rogers talks voicing Urien, why acting in fighting games can be especially difficult and more in this exclusive interview". EventHubs.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ↑ "Netflix's Live Action Pokémon Series: Casting The Potential Roles". 29 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Bill Rogers – Voice Actor Profile at Voice Chasers". Voicechasers.com. Archived from the original on 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Bill Rogers (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 7, 2019. 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 opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. ↑ "Staff/Cast". Cells at Work!. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Resume". Bill Rogers: Tales of Thespianage. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "No × Good × NGL". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 79. Viz Media. January 13, 2018. Adult Swim.
  8. ↑ "Beware × Of × Prisoners". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 9. Viz Media. June 18, 2016. Adult Swim.
  9. ↑ "Trick × To × The Trick". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 10. Viz Media. June 25, 2016. Adult Swim.
  10. ↑ Toonami premier of One-Punch Man episode 8 and 10
  11. ↑ Rogers, Bill [@billsvoice] (November 6, 2017). "Happy to reprise my role as Lucario in the 20th Pokemon movie. Missed it? There's 3 more screenings Nov 6, 11 & 14. http://www.fathomevents.com/events/pokemon-the-movie …" (Tweet). Retrieved November 7, 2017 – via Twitter.
  12. ↑ "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (2021 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 1 December 2021. 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 opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  13. ↑ Kadokawa Games. Relayer. Clouded Leopard Entertainment. Scene: Ending credits, 14:11 in, EN CAST.
  14. ↑ "Octopath Traveler II (2023 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  15. ↑ "Detective Pikachu Returns (2023 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  16. ↑ http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/_img/movies/credits_1699.jpg
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