Brice Armstrong
Brice Weeks Armstrong Jr (January 3, 1936 – January 10, 2020) was an American voice actor and radio announcer who primarily worked on the properties of Funimation. He was best known as the original narrator of Dragon Ball, as well as Ginyu in Dragon Ball Z, and Slug in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.[1] He was also known for being the voice of Miss Etta Kette in Barney & Friends.
Filmography
[edit]Anime
[edit]- Baki the Grappler - Igari Kanji
- Basilisk: The Kōga Ninja Scrolls - Tokugawa Ieyasu[2]
- Blue Gender - Chairman Victor
- Burst Angel - Chief Katsu
- Case Closed - Einstein Achurbee, Gregor, Nick Weldon, Robert Gilmore, Shane O’Connor, Theodore Kinsella, others
- Dragon Ball - Narrator[2]
- Dragon Ball Z - Ginyu (Remastered)
- Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug - Slug
- Fruits Basket - Tohru's Grandfather
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Tim Marcoh
- The Galaxy Railways - Whitman (Ep. 8)
- Lupin the 3rd - Various (Movies & Specials) (FUNimation dub)
- Samurai 7 - Masamune
- Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning - Raizou Shiranagatani
- Yu Yu Hakusho - Mr. Takanaka, Master Mitamura, Topaz/Kougyoku, Kuroda
Video games
[edit]- Half-Life: Decay (2001) - Richard Keller, HECU Soldiers
- BloodRayne 2 (2004) - Kagan Elite[2]
Orders
[edit]- Barney & Friends - Miss Etta Kette
- It's Time for Counting! - Beauregard
Death
[edit]Brice Armstrong died on January 10, 2020, a week after his 84th birthday. He was survived by 6 children and 9 grandchildren.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dragon Ball narrator and Ginyu voice actor Brice Armstrong has died". Independent.co.uk. 2020-01-21.
- ^ a b c "Brice Armstrong (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 31 January 2020. 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 credits or other reliable sources of information.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "Dragon Ball Z Narrator Brice Armstrong Dead at 84".
External links
[edit]- Brice Armstrong at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Brice Armstrong at IMDb
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