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Kirk Thornton
Birth nameSean Thornton
AliasRonald Allen, Ron Allen, Sparky Allen, Todd Crump, Donald Lee, Robert Lloyd, Sean Roberts, Spanky Roberts, Sparky Roberts, Kurt Thornton, Sean Thornton, Sparky Thornton, Sparly Thornton, Starky Thornton, Kirk Thorton, Sean Thorton, Sparky Thorton
BornMay 13 1956 (1956--) (age 51)
Portland, Oregon
Occupation(s)Voice Actor
Notable RolesBobobo-bo Bo-bobo
as Don Patch
Digimon
as Gabumon
Eureka Seven
as Matthieu
Gun X Sword
as The Claw
Gungrave
as Brandon "Beyond the Grave" Heat
Kingdom Hearts II
as Saïx
Naruto
as Tazuna/Kisame Hoshigaki
Rurouni Kenshin
as Hajime Saito
The Prince of Tennis
as Kunimitsu Tezuka
Samurai Champloo
as Jin
Tales of the Abyss
as Jade Curtiss
The Castle of Cagliostro
as Count Cagliostro


Kirk Thornton (Born Sean Thornton on May 13, 1956 in Portland, Oregon) is a prolific American voice actor.

Bio

He is known for playing tough or grouchy men in dubbed anime and video games. His career includes Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi and Jin in Samurai Champloo. He also played numerous cameos and minor characters in Rurouni Kenshin, in addition to the major character of Hajime Saito. He also does Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo as well as Gabumon and other voices in Digimon.

According to Anime News Network, Thornton has the most credits of any male voice actor and he is second in total voice actor credits only next to Wendee Lee and Steven Blum. He has been in over one hundred voice-over productions for Japanese animation.

Thornton is also well-known for having played many different minor voice roles throughout the Power Rangers franchise (and similar series such as VR Troopers and Masked Rider).

Thornton has also had experience with ADR direction. Currently, he is co-directing the ADR for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee.

Thornton's career is difficult to track, due to the multiple names he has been credited under.

Interestingly, Thornton explained that he only gained the role of Saix from Kingdom Hearts II because Ginpei Sato, the seiyu who played Saix in the Japanese version, also did the voice of Jin from Samurai Champloo, of which Thornton also played. This prompted the casting crew at Disney Character Voices to consider him for the role, and eventually cast him.

Filmography

Anime

Video Games

Live-action voice over

  • Masked Rider - Recyclotron, Skull Reapers #2 and #3
  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Hatchasaurus (1st voice), Dramole, Professor Longnose (uncredited)
  • - Silo (2nd voice), Altor, Nuklifier (uncredited)
  • - Craterites, Powerdriller (uncredited)
  • - Brunt, Samuron (uncredited), Alien
  • - Spellbinder
  • - Angelcon
  • - Motorcycle Org
  • VR Troopers - Mechanoid
  • What the Bleep Do We Know!? - Various Character Voices
  • Versus (film) - Villain (credited as Ron Allen)

Movie roles

Documentaries

External links

May 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1953 1954 1955 - 1956 - 1957 1958 1959

Year 1956 (MCMLVI
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Portland, Oregon

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Nickname: "Rose City," "P-Town," "Stumptown," "Bridgetown," "PDX"
Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon
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State of Oregon

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Nickname(s): Beaver State
Motto(s): Alis volat propriis

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Capital Salem
Largest city Portland

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Don Patch (首領パッチ) is a character in the anime/manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

Don Patchi (also known as Poppa Rocks and Patches
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<noinclude></noinclude> Digimon (デジモン dejimon
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Gabumon is a Digimon creature from the Japanese Digimon media franchise that comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games and other media. Gabumon's name is derived from "gabugabu", a Japanese onomatopoeia for guzzling.
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Eureka Seven, known in Japan as Psalms of Planets Eureka seveN (交響詩篇エウレカセブン
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Gun X Sword (ガン×ソード Gan×Sōdo
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Gungrave (ガングレイヴ Gangureivu
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Kingdom Hearts II (キングダムハーツII
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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 明治剣客浪漫譚
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Tales of the Abyss (テイルズ オブ ジ アビス
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The Castle of Cagliostro (ルパン三世 カリオストロの城
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Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (June 2, 1743 Palermo, Sicily - August 26, 1795 San Leo, Province of Pesaro and Urbino) was the alias for the charlatan Giuseppe Balsamo, an Italian traveller, and occultist.
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May 13 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

Events

  • 1497 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1920s  1930s  1940s  - 1950s -  1960s  1970s  1980s
1953 1954 1955 - 1956 - 1957 1958 1959

Year 1956 (MCMLVI
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Portland, Oregon

Flag
Seal
Nickname: "Rose City," "P-Town," "Stumptown," "Bridgetown," "PDX"
Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon
Coordinates:
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State of Oregon

Flag of Oregon (front) Seal
Nickname(s): Beaver State
Motto(s): Alis volat propriis

Official language(s) (none)[1]

Capital Salem
Largest city Portland

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Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts, and video games), doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet
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dubbing or looping is the process of recording or replacing voices for a motion picture. The term is most commonly used in reference to voices recorded that do not belong to the original actors and speak in a different language than the actor is speaking.
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video game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

The word video in video game traditionally refers to a raster display device.
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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story (るろうに剣心 明治剣客浪漫譚
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