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Brad Swaile

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Brad Swaile
Swaile in 2023
Born
Bradley Swaile
OccupationVoice actor
Years active1992–present
AgentPlay Management[1]
Children2[2]

Bradley Swaile is a Canadian voice actor. His major roles include Light Yagami in Death Note, Rock in Black Lagoon, Kicker Jones in Transformers: Energon, and Nightcrawler in X-Men: Evolution.[3] In the 1990s, he voiced Mousse in Ranma ½ and Teen Gohan in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z. He has also voiced multiple roles in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, including Amuro Ray of Mobile Suit Gundam, Quatre Raberba Winner of Gundam Wing, Dearka Elsman of Gundam SEED, Auel Neider of Gundam SEED Destiny and Setsuna F. Seiei of Gundam 00. In video games, he voices Jin Kazama in Street Fighter X Tekken.

Biography

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Swaile attended Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in Vancouver. He graduated from Kwantlen University with a degree in Graphic and Visual Design.

Swaile has acted in several animated series. One of his earliest anime roles was in the English dub of Ranma ½ where he voiced Mousse. When the Ocean Group dubbed Dragonball Z in the mid-1990s, Swaile voiced Adult Gohan. He also voiced Nightcrawler in X-Men: Evolution and voiced Ace in My Little Pony Tales. In the late 2000s, he voiced the lead characters Rock in Black Lagoon and Light Yagami in the hit anime Death Note. He has reprised his role for the latter's Death Note live action film dub.

Swaile is known for many roles in the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise. These roles include Amuro Ray of Mobile Suit Gundam, Quatre Raberba Winner of Gundam Wing, Dearka Elsman of Gundam SEED, Auel Neider of Gundam SEED Destiny and Setsuna F. Seiei of Gundam 00.

Filmography

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Anime

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List of English dubbing performances in anime
Year Title Role Notes Source
1993–2002 Ranma ½ series Mousse, Sentaro Ocean/Viz dub [4][5]
1999 Video Girl Ai Yota Moteuchi [4][5][6]
2000 Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Quatre Raberba Winner, Zechs Subordinate [4][5][7]
2000 Cardcaptors Various Ocean/Nelvana dub [4]
2000 Dragon Ball Z Teen Gohan Ocean/Westwood dub [4]
2001 Saber Marionette J Otaru Mamiya [4]
2001 Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Quatre Raberba Winner [4]
2001 Mobile Suit Gundam Amuro Ray [4][5]
2001 Zoids: New Century Zero Harry Champ [4]
2002 The SoulTaker Kyosuke Date [4]
2002 Hamtaro Maxwell [4]
2002 Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack Amuro Ray [4]
2002 InuYasha Amari Nobunaga [4]
2002 Earth Maiden Arjuna Chris Hawken, others [4]
2002–04 Project ARMS series Takeshi Tomoe [4][6]
2003 Meltylancer Ligel [4]
2003–05 MegaMan NT Warrior Lan Hikari Also Axess [4][6]
2003 Junkers Come Here Keisuke Kimura [4]
2003 Boys Over Flowers Kazuya Aoike [4]
2003 Zoids: Fuzors RD [4][6]
2003 Infinite Ryvius Koji Aiba [4]
2004 Transformers: Energon Kicker Jones [4][6]
2004–05 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Dearka Elsman Also specials and film [4]
2004 Dragon Drive Reiji Ozora [4]
2004 Nurse Witch Komugi Kyosuke Date [4]
2004 Dokkoida!? Suzuo Sakurazaki / Dokkoida [4]
2004–06 Maison Ikkoku Yusaku Godai [4][6]
2004 The Daichis Yashiro, Pokemaru Seller [4]
2004 Galaxy Angel Z Kato, Fan, Roberto [4]
2005 Tokyo Underground Rumina Asagi [4]
2005 Hikaru no Go Fujiwara-no-Sai [4]
2006 Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Auel Neider, Dearka Elsman [4]
2006 Shakugan no Shana Keisaku Sato Season 1 [4][6]
2006 .hack//Roots Seisaku [4]
2007–08 Black Lagoon series Rokuro Okajima / Rock [4][6]
2007 The Story of Saiunkoku Ryuki Shi [4]
2007–08 Death Note series Light Yagami Also anime films and specials [4][6][8]
2008–09 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 series Setsuna F. Seiei [4][9]
2012 Kurozuka Kuro [6]
2013 Beyblade: Metal Fury King
2013 Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail Rokuro Okajima/Rock [10]
2016 Kingdom series Ci Zou, Ping Wei, Yuan, Ri Boku [11][12][13][14]
2017 Beyblade Burst Evolution Ghasem Madal
2017–22 World Trigger Jun Arashiyama, Ko Murakami [15][6]
2017 Gintama Saito Shimaru [16]
2019 Tobot Athlon Athlon Rocky [17]
2021 Hello Carbot Pron


Animation

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List of voice performances in animation
Year Title Role Notes Source
2000–03 X-Men: Evolution Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
2010 Hero 108 Yu Tang [6]
2010 Dreamkix Morrie, Peter, Garrick [6]
2017 Barbie Video Game Hero Kris [6]

Film

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List of voice performances in films
Year Title Role Notes Source
2009 Barbie and the Three Musketeers Serge, Handsome Man Direct-to-video [6]
2016 Ratchet & Clank Ollie / Super Fan [6]

Film

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Live Action English Dubbing
Year Title Role Notes Source
2006 Death Note Light Yagami
Death Note 2: The Last Name

Video games

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List of English dubbing performances in video games
Year Title Role Notes Source
2001 Mobile Suit Gundam: Journey to Jaburo Amuro Ray [4]
2002 Gundam: Battle Assault 2 Amuro Ray, Quatre Rebera Winner [4]
2003 Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space Amuro Ray [4][6]
2005 Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam Amuro Ray (0079) Archive footage [4]
2007 Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Amuro Ray [4][6]
2009 Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 Amuro Ray [4][6]
2010–11 Dead Rising 2 Brent Ernst, others Also Off the Record [6]
2011 Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 Setsuna F. Seiei, Amuro Ray [4][6]
2012 Street Fighter X Tekken Jin Kazama [6]
2019 Langrisser Mobile Elwin [18]
2022 New Tales from the Borderlands Sponsor-Bot [6]
2023 Resident Evil 4 Soldier A Separate Ways DLC [19]

References

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  1. ^ "Security Check Required". facebook.com. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  2. ^ Brian Dobson, Saffron Hendrson | Anime Time Machine | Q&A and Autographs Part-2 (01-29-23), Youtube
  3. ^ "Brad Swaile to Return to AmeCon". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
  4. ^ 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 ak al am an ao ap aq ar as "Brad Swaile". crystalacids.com. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d "Anime Central Guest Announcement". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Behind The Voice Actors - Brad Swaile". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved February 15, 2017. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. ^ "Anime Boston Press". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  8. ^ "Viz Confirms Death Note English Cast". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  9. ^ "English Gundam 00 Promo, Cast for 4 Meisters Posted". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  10. ^ Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail. Episode 1–5. Funimation.
  11. ^ "Storming the Capital". Kingdom. Episode 10. January 26, 2016. Event occurs at Closing credits. Funimation.
  12. ^ "First Campaign". Kingdom. Episode 17. January 26, 2016. Event occurs at Closing credits. Funimation.
  13. ^ "A New Trial". Kingdom. Episode 24. January 26, 2016. Event occurs at Closing credits. Funimation.
  14. ^ "Sudden Change In The Tide Of Battle". Kingdom. Episode 29. January 26, 2016. Event occurs at Closing credits. Funimation.
  15. ^ "Osamu Mikumo's Talent". World Trigger. Episode 3. January 18, 2017. Event occurs at Closing credits. Primo TV.
  16. ^ "Crunchyroll Adds Episodes 292-304 of English Dubbed "Gintama" Anime to Catalog". Crunchyroll. February 19, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  17. ^ "Tobot Athlon". Hello Carbot. behindthevoiceactors.com. March 17, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021.
  18. ^ "Elwin". August 2, 2018.
  19. ^ Resident Evil 4 Separate Ways DLC Full Credit, September 20, 2023, retrieved March 23, 2024
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