Josh Keaton
Joshua Luis Wiener (born February 8, 1979),[1] known by his stage name Josh Keaton, is an American voice actor. He is known for his roles as Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Spider-Man in various media in addition to Electro in the video game Marvel's Spider-Man, Jack Darby in Transformers: Prime and the adolescent Hercules in Hercules. He was also the voice of Ryu Hayabusa in the console versions of Ninja Gaiden, and the voice of Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is also the voice of King Anduin Wrynn in the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
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| Born | Joshua Luis Wiener February 8, 1979 |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Melendez
(m. 2009) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Labels | |
| Associated acts | No Authority |
| Website | joshkeaton |
Early life
Keaton was born in Hacienda Heights, California, to a father from Brooklyn, New York, and a mother from Lima, Peru.[2] He has three sisters: Danielle, Alitzah (Ali Navarro), and Sabrina. He is fluent in Spanish which he learned first as a child, and later English. As a child, he learned to speak some Quechua from his maternal grandparents. His father is Jewish and his mother is Catholic.[3]
Career
His career has included television, video game and film work, with a mixture of live acting and voice work for animations. As an infant, he appeared in an OshKosh B'gosh commercial. He was in the 1990s boy band No Authority and was signed to MJJ Music and later RCA Records as a solo artist.
Keaton voiced Jules Brown in Back to the Future: The Animated Series during 1991–1992 and Major Ocelot during Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
From 2008 to 2009, he voiced Peter Parker / Spider-Man in The Spectacular Spider-Man animated series on The CW. He was originally supposed to voice the character in the 2002 Spider-Man video game but his voice work was scrapped and reworked as Harry Osborn / Green Goblin when Tobey Maguire came on to voice the character.[4] He also reprised the role of New Goblin in the 2007 video game Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, and Spider-Man again in several video games (Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Spider-Man: Edge of Time). From 2017 to 2020, Keaton provided the voice of several recurring characters in Marvel's Spider-Man on Disney XD. He would also portray the villain Max Dillon / Electro in the 2018 Spider-Man video game developed by Insomniac Games, providing both the physical motion capture and voice for the character.
In 2011, Keaton was the voice for Spyro the Dragon in the Skylanders reboot of the franchise, Jack Darby and Tailgate on Transformers: Prime, and Hal Jordan / Green Lantern in Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
Since 2012, he is the voice for Anduin Wrynn in the video games World of Warcraft, Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm.
At Wondercon 2016, it was announced that Keaton would play Shiro, one of the main characters of the Voltron animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender that premiered on June 10, exclusively on Netflix.[5]
Filmography
Films
Animation
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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| 1990 | New Kids on the Block | Albert | ||
| 1991 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Pontus | Ep. "A World Below Us" | |
| 1991 | Snoopy's Reunion | Linus van Pelt | Television special | |
| 1991 | Peter Pan and the Pirates | Curly | ||
| 1991–1992 | Back to the Future | Jules Brown | ||
| 1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Young Michael Stromwell | Ep. "It's Never Too Late" | [6] |
| 1998 | Adventures from the Book of Virtues | Sean Willis, Sir Roland | Ep. "Trustworthiness" | |
| 2005–06 | Bratz | Eitan | [6] | |
| 2005 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Driver, Zombie #2, Vendor | Ep. "Jeffy's Web/Irwin Gets a Clue" | |
| 2007 | Ben 10 | Tim Dean, Hector | [6] | |
| 2007–11 | The Path of Atticus | Atticus | ||
| 2008–2009 | The Spectacular Spider-Man | Peter Parker / Spider-Man | [6] | |
| 2010 | Firebreather | Troy Adams | Television film | [6] |
| 2010–13 | Transformers: Prime | Jack Darby, Tailgate, Additional Voices | [6] | |
| 2011–15 | Winx Club | Valtor, Duman, King Oritel of Domino | Nickelodeon version (re-dubs of seasons 3 and 4, original records of seasons 5 and 6) | |
| 2011 | Sym-Bionic Titan | Ian | Ep. "Disenfranchised" | |
| 2011 | The Super Hero Squad Show | Moon-Boy | Ep. "The Devil Dinosaur You Say!" | [6] |
| 2011–2013 | Green Lantern: The Animated Series | Hal Jordan / Green Lantern, Manhunters | [6] | |
| 2012 | Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games | Steve Lookers | [6] | |
| 2012, 2019 | Young Justice | Black Spider, Red Hood | [6] | |
| 2013 | Hero Factory | William Furno | Ep. "Brain Attack" | |
| 2013 | Regular Show | Auto T | Ep. "The Thanksgiving Special" | [6] |
| 2013 | Scooby Doo and the Spooky Scarecrow | Levi | [6] | |
| 2013 | Doc McStuffins | Johnny Foosball | Ep. "Think Pink/You Foose, You Lose" | |
| 2015 | Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles | White House Aide, Kobra Guard | [6] | |
| 2015–2017 | DC Super Hero Girls | Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, Steve Trevor | ||
| 2015–2017 | Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! | Additional Voices | 5 episodes | [6] |
| 2016–2018 | Voltron: Legendary Defender | Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane | [6][5] | |
| 2016 | Kulipari: An Army of Frogs | Darel | ||
| 2016–2018 | Justice League Action | Hal Jordan / Green Lantern | [6] | |
| 2017–2021 | Ben 10 | XLR8 | [6] | |
| 2017 | Ant-Man | Scott Lang / Ant-Man | [11] | |
| 2017–2020 | Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters | Gabe | [6] | |
| Spider-Man | Norman Osborn / Dark Goblin / Spider King, John Jameson / Man-Wolf, Ollie Osnick / Steel Spider, Additional Voices | [6] | ||
| 2017–2020 | Elena of Avalor | Miguel, Andres | 4 episodes | [6] |
| 2018–present | The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants | Additional Voices | Uncredited | |
| 2020–present | It's Pony | Heston | ||
| 2021 | Dota: Dragon's Blood | Bram | Netflix series | [12] |
| 2021–present | What If...? | Steve Rogers / Captain America / Hydra Stomper | 3 episodes | [13] |
| 2021–present | Arcane | Deckard, Salo | 4 episodes | [14] |
Video games
AudioBooks
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2015 | Rain of the Ghosts | Tommy McMinn, Chris LeVell |
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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| 1989–90 | Kidsongs | Himself | Videos: "A Day at Camp" and "Ride the Roller Coaster" | |
| 1991 | All I Want for Christmas | Brad | ||
| 1992 | Newsies | Newsboy | ||
| 1996 | Same River Twice | Andy | ||
| 1996 | Judge and Jury | Boy #2 | ||
| 1996 | Infinity | David | ||
| 1997 | Just Write | Teenager on Trolley | ||
| 1998 | The Souler Opposite | Young Barry | ||
| 1999 | Chimera House | Roy | ||
| 2003 | The Even Stevens Movie | Mootai / Jason | ||
| 2007 | Up-In-Down Town | Billy |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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| 1987 | I'm Telling! | Himself | Contestant | |
| 1993 | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | First Male Cousin | 2 episodes | |
| 1994 | Someone Like Me | Doug | Episode: "El Presidente" | |
| 1994 | Boy Meets World | Boy #2, Roy | 2 episodes | |
| 1995 | Sister, Sister | Franklin | Episode: "It's a Party Thang" | |
| 1995–1996 | The Secret World of Alex Mack | Bryce | Recurring role | |
| 1996 | Saved by the Bell: The New Class | Glee Club #2 | Episode: "Fire at the Max: Part 1" | |
| 1997 | Chicago Hope | Will Peters | Episode: "The Son Also Rises" | |
| 1997 | Baywatch | Todd Rose | Episode: "Rendezvous" | |
| 1997 | General Hospital | Tim | Recurring role | |
| 1997 | Step by Step | Will Peters | Episode: "Just Say Maybe" | |
| 1999 | Touched by an Angel | Young Nick Stratton | Episode: "Made in the U.S.A." | |
| 1999 | A Murder on Shadow Mountain | Young Denny | Television film | |
| 1999–2002 | The Young and the Restless | Brendon | Recurring role 10 episodes | |
| 2002 | Boston Public | Martin Andrews | Episode: "Chapter Thirty-Four" | |
| 2002 | ER | Greg | Episode: "Tell Me Where It Hurts" | |
| 2004 | Will & Grace | Salvatore | 2 episodes | |
| 2006 | Bones | Yasutani the Terrible | Episode: "The Superhero in the Alley" | |
| 2014 | Scorpion | Phil Daniels | Episode: "True Colors" |
References
- "Joshua Luis Wiener, Born 02/08/1979 in California | CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
- "Josh Keaton Interview – Young Ocelot". Metalhearsolid.net. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
- "Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. November 27, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2020.
- "Marvel Animation Age AMP TX News Presents Josh Keaton on the Spectavular Spider-Man". Archived from the original on September 13, 2012.
- "Wondercon: Netflix's Voltron Animated Series Release Date Set, Voice Cast Announced". IGN. March 25, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- "Josh Keaton (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved June 27, 2015. 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.
- Keaton, Josh [@joshkeaton] (February 22, 2010). "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths comes out tomorrow! I'm the Flash and have a cameo as Aquaman. That's right, freaking AQUAMAN" (Tweet). Retrieved February 19, 2018 – via Twitter.
- "The Laws of the Universe Anime Film Casts Dylan McDermott, Jennifer Beals, Tom Kenny". Anime News Network. September 26, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- "LEGO Justice League: Cosmic Clash Movie Bluray With Cosmic Boy Minifigure Details - - Action Figures Toys News ToyNewsI.com". Retrieved August 24, 2016.
- Oller, Jacob (April 3, 2020). "Embrace your inner child with this first look at LEGO DC: Shazam-Magic & Monsters". SYFY WIRE. Archived from the original on April 8, 2020. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
- "NYCC: MARVEL'S ANT-MAN ANIMATED SHORTS COMING TO DISNEY XD". Comic Book Resources.
- Josh Keaton [@JoshKeaton] (February 19, 2021). "Hey look! It's me! Sweet, beautiful Bram. So excited for all of you to see him in the upcoming #DOTA series coming to @netflix in March!" (Tweet). Retrieved February 19, 2021 – via Twitter.
- Jorgensen, Tom (August 10, 2021). "What If...? Season 1, Episode 1 – Review". IGN. Archived from the original on August 10, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- "Who voices Deckard in Arcane and why do they sound familiar?". The Focus. November 7, 2021. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
- Capcom (April 27, 2004). Onimusha 3: Demon Siege. Scene: Closing credits, 0:45 in, cast.
- "Interview With Josh Keaton, Voice Of Spidey, Ocelot & Others". June 19, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2015.
- Square Enix. Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII. Scene: Closing credits, 5 minutes in, Voice Actors, Additional Voices.
- Sledgehammer Games. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Scene: Credits, 3:00 in, Cast.
- Wilson, Matt D. (July 31, 2014). "Laughing At The Joker: Adam West & Developers Talk 'LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham'". Comics Alliance. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014.
- Day, Patrick Kevin (July 27, 2014). "Comic-Con 2014: 'Lego Batman 3′ will take players back to '60s Batman". Hero Complex. Los Angeles Times.
- LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham – Behind the Scenes with the Cast and Characters (YouTube). GameSpot. July 28, 2014.
- Turbine, Inc. Infinite Crisis. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, Voice Over Talent.
- "Infinite Crisis Credits". Archived from the original on October 11, 2014.
- Avalanche Studios. Mad Max. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Credits, 5:40 in, Talent.
- Vicarious Visions. Skylanders: SuperChargers. Activision. Scene: Closing credits, 7:13 in, Voice Actors.
- Traveller's Tales. Lego Dimensions. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Scene: Closing credits, 4:45 in, Voiceover Talent.
- The Odd Gentlemen. King's Quest – Chapter III: Once Upon A Climb. Sierra Entertainment. Scene: Closing credits, 1 min in, Cast.
- Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft: Legion. Activision Blizzard. Scene: Closing credits, Voice Over Cast.
- Toys for Bob. Skylanders: Imaginators. Activision.
- "CAST｜PlayStation®4用サバイバルアクションゲーム – Let It Die". letitdie.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved March 17, 2018.
- Arkane Studios. Prey. Bethesda Softworks. Scene: Closing credits, Voice Talent.
- Digital Domain. DreamWorks Voltron VR Chronicles. Digital Domain. Scene: Shiro, Voice.
- Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth. Activision Blizzard. Scene: Closing credits, Voice Over Cast.
- Blizzard Entertainment. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Activision Blizzard. Scene: Closing credits, Voice Over Cast.
- Berg, Ricky (October 23, 2019). "New No More Heroes III info shows two returning bosses, trailer could be coming soon". NintendoWire. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
External links
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- Official website
- Josh Keaton at IMDb
- Josh Keaton at Behind The Voice Actors