Neil Kaplan

Neil Kaplan (born March 9, 1967) is an American voice actor, entertainer and comedian. He is known for voicing Madara Uchiha in Naruto: Shippūden, Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto in Bleach, Optimus Prime in Transformers: Robots in Disguise and antagonist Emperor Zarkon in Voltron: Legendary Defender.

Biography
Kaplan grew up in San Jose, California. He got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little-known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including many Star Wars titles. From there he went on to do such shows as Power Rangers, Digimon: Digital Monsters, and Transformers: Robots in Disguise. One of his most famous voices is Hawkmon from Digimon. He was also once a contestant on the popular comedy game show Street Smarts. On that appearance, he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried. He was invited as a guest to the Power Morphicon (in Los Angeles) in June 2007 as well as August 2010, to Armageddon (in Australia and New Zealand) in October 2007, and to AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival (in Australia) in July 2018. He created the television series The Way it WASN'T!, as well as the graphic novel I, of the Wolf. He also voices Captain Fort Worth in the adult video game BoneCraft.

TV Series

 * Cable Girls (2017-2020) - Additional Voices
 * 1983 (2018) - Swantiborides
 * Tijuana (2019) - Additional Voices

Films

 * To Each, Her Own (2018) - Norbert, Additional Voices

Animated Films

 * The Little Polar Bear (2001) - Bert

Anime

 * Rurouni Kenshin (1996-1998) - Sumo Wrestlers (ep. 13), Jinpuu Squad Soldiers (ep. 16) , Soldier (ep. 21) , Pirate (ep. 27) , Imperialist (ep. 28) , Chief (ep. 31) , Assassin (ep. 42) , Soldier (ep. 45) (Media Blasters Dub)
 * Flint the Time Detective (1998-1999) - Young Bernard Goodman (ep. 15)
 * Initial D: First Stage (1998) - Keiichi Tsuchiya (ep. 23) (Tokyopop Dub)
 * Nightwalker: Midnight Detective (1998) - SWAT Officer (ep. 3)
 * Reign: The Conqueror (1999) - Prophet, Man B (ep. 6), Priest (ep. 6) , Guard (ep. 8) , Ibn (ep. 8) , Soldier D (ep. 8) , Soldier (ep. 11)
 * Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (2000) - Kuma (ep. 4), Mr. Yohei (ep. 6) , Additional Voices
 * Digimon 02 (2000-2001) - Hawkmon, Aquilamon, Halsemon, Shurimon, Silphymon, Teacher (ep. 26), Hogan (ep. 41) , Ilya (ep. 42)
 * DinoZaurs (2000) - John (ep. 10)
 * Shinzo (2000) - Big Blue's Brother (ep. 3)
 * Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2000) - Optimus Prime, Ro-Tor
 * Vandread (2000) - Additional Voices
 * Digimon Tamers (2001-2002) - Indramon, Babel, Divermon (ep. 19), Customer (ep. 27) , News Anchor (ep. 27)
 * Digimon Frontier (2002-2003) - Mushroomon (ep. 4), Woodmon (ep. 4) , Leader Kokuwamon (ep. 5) , Baromon (ep. 38)
 * Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2003) - Debate Panelist 2 (ep. 5), Yakuza (ep. 3)
 * Naruto (2002-2007) - Star Village Ninja (ep. 183), Kiyoyasu (ep. 186)
 * Wolf's Rain (2003) - Special Ops Soldier (ep. 9)
 * Zatch Bell! (2003-2006) - Belgium E.O., Additional Voices
 * Bleach (2004-2012) - Shigekuni Genryusai Yamamoto, Tetsuzaemon Iba, Ryusaburo Enkogawa "Enryu", Zommari Leroux, Dordoni Alessandro Del Socaccio, Gesell, Squad 11 Soul Reaper (ep. 29), Soul Reaper Communications (ep. 86) , Szayel's Fraccion (ep. 164) , Tenken (ep. 248) , Gossiping Soul Reaper A (ep. 250) , Soul Reaper A (ep. 263) , Newspaper Soul Reaper B (ep. 305) , Takashige (ep. 313) , Soul Reaper A (ep. 336) , Kuchiki Elder (ep. 355) , Additional Voices
 * Digimon Data Squad (2006-2007) - Pumpkinmon
 * Blue Dragon (2007-2008) - Saber Tiger, General Logi's Captain, Gran Kingdom Soldier (ep. 37)
 * Mega Man Star Force (2007) - Bob Copper, Taurus, Lab Scientist (ep. 3), Lab Scientist (ep. 8)
 * Naruto Shippūden (2007-2017) - Madara Uchiha, A/Third Raikage (2nd voice; eps. 282-301), The Masked Man, Foreign Ninja, Hunter-nin, Tsuchigumo Clan Member (ep. 146) , Eno no Gyoja (ep. 148) , Sand Assassin (ep. 182) , Torifu Akimichi (ep. 211) , Ghost Ship Crew A (ep. 225) , Researcher (ep. 227) , Ikkaku Umino (ep. 249) , Cypher Division Ninja (ep. 251) , Allied Ninja (ep. 256) , Allied Ninja (ep. 264) , Suzaku Nara (ep. 275) , Allied Ninja Voice (ep. 282) , Cloud Ninja (ep. 282) , Cloud Village Man B (ep. 282) , Old Man (ep. 283) , Bill Collector (ep. 286) , Uchiha Clan Member (ep. 452)
 * Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008) - Priest (ep. 14)
 * Digimon Fusion (2010-2012) - Blastmon, Cyberdramon, Lord Bagra, Megadarkness Bagramon, MetalGreymon (eps. 19-25), NeoMyotismon, Redmeramon, Skullknightmon, Vilemon, Octomon (ep. 4) , Ookuwamon (ep. 6) , Etemon (ep. 13) , SkullScorpionmon (ep. 14) , Skullsatamon (ep. 21) , Samudramon (ep. 24) , Gigawarumonzaemon (ep. 27) , Raremon (ep. 28) , Surtr (ep. 41) , Anubimon (ep. 44)
 * Iron Man (2010) - Defense Minister Kuroda/Rasetsu, Plane Captain (ep. 1), Special Ops Agent 2 (ep. 8) , Self Defense Forces Soldier (ep. 9)
 * Blade (2011) - High Council Chairman, Police (ep. 10)
 * Glitter Force Doki Doki (2013-2014) - Innkeeper (ep. 14), Snowman Distain (ep. 14)
 * Lupin the 3rd Part IV (2015-2016) - Robson Zuccoli, Bucci Franky (ep. 9), Newscaster (ep. 22)
 * Levius (2019) - Malcolm Eden
 * Cagaster of an Insect Cage (2020) - Adham
 * Great Pretender (2020) - Lewis Müller, Razzie (ep. 4), Additional Voices

OVAs & Specials

 * Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas (2009-2011) - Capricorn El Cid
 * Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin (2015-2018) - Dozle Zabi

Anime Films

 * Digimon: The Movie (2000) - Hawkmon, Halsemon, Computer Voice 2, Professor, Twin Boy 1
 * Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (2007) - Additional Voices
 * Promare (2019) - Vulcan Haestus
 * Dragon Quest: Your Story (2019) - Dr. Agon

Video Game Dubbing

 * Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (2013) - Additional Voices
 * Final Fantasy XV (2016-2019) - Additional Voices
 * Shenmue III (2019) - Additional Voices