Richard Epcar

About me:

RICHARD EPCAR is an ACTOR/WRITER/DIRECTOR VOICE-ACTOR GAME DIRECTOR AND ADR DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT OF EPCAR ENTERTAINMENT, INC. HE IS STARRING IN A NEW COKE COMMERCIAL! AND HAS LEAD IN NEW WEBISODE SERIES-OPERATION NIGHTSHADE! Just completed filming on a new movie. Has the lead in several new games! He is the voice of THE JOKER and RAIDEN in the new ‘MORTAL KOMBAT' vs. D.C. UNIVERSE’ game! To hear me doing the voice of THE JOKER AND SEE THE NEW COKE COMMERCIAL go to youtube.com and put in richard epcar He's well known to Game, Animation and Anime fans, starting with the original ‘Robotech’ series- in which he played ‘Ben Dixon’, ‘Lunk’, ‘Gruel’, and now Capt. Vince Grant in the new original animated feature, ‘Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles’, which he also directed. He is the voice of ‘Batou’ in the ‘Ghost in the Shell’ movie, the game, the series, ‘Ghost in the Shell-Stand Alone Complex’, ‘Solid State Society’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell 2-Innocence’, which he also adapted and directed into English. Most recently he can be heard as ‘Zangetsu’ and ‘Koga’ in ‘Bleach’, ‘Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo’ as ‘Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo’, and ‘Mr. Noisy’ on 'The Mr. Men Show’ both on Cartoon Network. Other shows he's DIRECTED are the ‘Lupin the Third’ series doing the voice of ‘Jigen’, ‘Noein’ doing the voice of 'Kooyrama', the first season of ‘Digimon’ doing ‘Etemon’, Myotismon’ and ‘Apemon’, the series ‘Fighting Spirit’ and the game ‘Victorious Boxers-Revolution- doing the voice of ‘Kamogawa’ in both, ‘Patlabor III’, ‘The Secret of Mamo’, ‘Toy Warrior’, ‘Power Rangers’ doing many monster voices and the CGI series ‘Zentrix’. He wrote for ‘Transformers’ and did the voice of ‘Armorhide’, He is the lead in the new original animated series, ‘Avenging Apes of Africa’. He directed and played ‘Moe’ in ‘The Reef’, an original animated movie with an all star cast. Some of you will know him from ‘X-Men’ as ‘Gladiator’, 'Lucky Star', 'Bleach', 'Ghost Slayer Ayashi', 'Narruto', ‘Lain’, ‘Serial Experiment’, ‘Trigun’, ‘Wings of Honneamise’, ‘Fists of the North Star’, ‘Fushigi Yuugi’ as ‘Mitsukake’, ‘Guld’ in ‘Macross’ ‘Capt. Harlock’, ‘Ninja Scroll’ as Lord Gemma, ‘Steroko’, ‘Mac’ in ‘Teknoman’, ‘Bastard’, ‘Street Fighter’, ‘Daigunder’, ‘GTO’, ‘Samuri X’, ‘Rurouni Kenshin’ as ‘Seijuro Hiko’, ‘Macron’ and ‘Macross I, II, III, Macross Plus’, ‘Eagle Riders’, ‘Flint the Time Detective’, ‘Mon Colle Knights’, ‘Gundam’, Mobile Suit Gundam’, ‘Witch Hunter Robin’, ‘The New Speed Racer’- as Racer X, ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘Cyber Soldier 009’-as ‘Black Ghost’, to name just a few. He was named ‘Favorite Actor’ by DVD VisionJapan. SOME GAMES YOU'VE HEARD HIM ON ARE: ‘Star Wars-Empire At War’, 'Star Wars-Old Republic', ‘Kingdom Hearts 2’ and 'Kingdom Hearts-Chain of Memories', as ‘Ansem / Xehanort’, ‘Xenosaga I, II and III as ‘Ziggarat 8’ or ‘Ziggy’, ‘.Hack I, II and III’, ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Supreme Commander’, ‘Victorious Boxers-Revolution’, ‘Paraworld’, ‘Black Hawk Down’, ‘Robotech Invasion’, ‘Samurai Warriors’, ‘Dynasty Warriors’, ‘Warcraft III’ and ‘World of Warcraft’, 'Command & Conquer 4', ‘Street Fighters’, and ‘Star Ocean 1, 2, & 3’ Some games he’s directed are ‘Blue Dragon’, ‘Shadow Hearts II’, ‘Lupin III’, ‘Fighting Spirit’, ‘Vegas’,'Star Ocean 1 & 2',‘Smack Down vs. Raw’, ‘JackAss the game’, ‘Victorious Boxers-Revolution’ and ‘Dead Head Fred’. He and Ellyn Stern also cast the mo-cap for the 'Quantum of Solace' game. Live action foreign films that he has adapted and directed into English are many, including Academy Award winners ‘Cinema Paradiso’, ‘Belle Epoque’, ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’, ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Fencing Master’, ‘Widow of St. Pierre’, ‘Betty Blue’, ‘The Emperor and the Assassin’, ‘Amores Perros’, ‘Mission Kashmir’, ‘Azumi 1 & 2’, ‘Patlabor III’, ‘The Returner’, ‘Omyoji’, ‘Oldboy’, ‘Shiri’, and ‘Fearless’, with Jet Li, to name a few. As an actor he’s recurred on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and ‘General Hospital’, On film he co-starred in ‘Memoirs of an Invisible Man’ with Chevy Chase and Sam Neill, and just starred in a short film entitled, ‘Three Putts’. On television he’s done several shows, including ‘Columbo’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Guns of Paradise’, ‘Beverly Hills 90210’, ’Matlock’, ‘Who’s the Boss?’ and ‘Cheers’. He also does tons of voice work on many shows including: 'The Proposal', 'What Happens in Vegas', ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’, ‘The Killing Room’, ‘Resident Evil 3’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, ‘Jag’, ‘Devil’s Rejects’, ‘Diagnosis Murder’, ‘Xena’ & ‘Hercules’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Independence Day’, ‘Inspector Gadget’, ‘Seven’, ‘Rumble in the Bronx’, ‘Man in the Iron Mask’, ‘Rounders’, ‘Crime Story’, ‘Hell Raiser III & IV’, ‘Hard Target’, ‘Operation Condor’, ‘Hopalong Cassidy’, ‘ER’, ‘Nash Bridges’, ‘Babylon 5’, and many, many others. As an International Supervisor for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks, Richards work has taken him all over the world supervising the foreign dubs and mixes of feature films such as: ‘Gladiator’, ‘Madagascar’, 'Galaxy Quest', ‘Chicken Run’, ‘El Dorado’ and the 20th Anniversary release of ‘E.T.’. FAN MAIL or FOR WORK or TO CONTACT RICHARD: richardepcar@yahoo.com