Bruce Thomas (actor)

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Bruce Thomas is an American actor. He is well known for being the motion capture actor of Master Chief in Halo 4 , Halo 5: Guardians and Halo Infinite as well as portraying Russell Adler in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War . He first came to prominence for portraying the character of Batman in a series of commercials for General Motors' OnStar service [1] that aired from 2000 to 2002.

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Career

He was featured in Legally Blonde , as well as its sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde , as the "UPS guy". He was featured in the 2008 film Babysitter Wanted . He co-starred on the ABC Family original series Kyle XY as Stephen Trager from 2006 to 2009. He starred as JP Gratton in the episode "The He in the She" in the series Bones on October 8, 2008.

Thomas has also been featured in the sitcom Wings as well as on Weeds . He most recently provided the voices of Atrocitus in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights , Ezra Loomis in Gears of War: Judgement , Desaad in Justice League: War , and James Gordon in Son of Batman . [2]

He provided motion capture for Spartan John-117, the protagonist of the video game Halo 4 (2012), also doing so for Halo 5: Guardians (2015) and Halo Infinite (2021). [3]

It has been erroneously reported in the past that Thomas played Batman for the pilot and premiere of The WB's Birds of Prey TV series. Thomas personally dispelled this fact during a podcast interview. [4]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992 Army of Darkness Mini-Ash #2
2001 Legally Blonde UPS guy
2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2004 A Boyfriend for Christmas Ted PowellTV film
2008 Babysitter Wanted Jim Stanton
2011 Hall Pass Rick Coleman
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Atrocitus
(voice)
Direct-to-video
2013 Raze Kurtz
2014 Justice League: War DeSaad
(voice)
Direct-to-video
Son of Batman James Gordon, Ubu
(voices)
2015 Camino Handsome gent
Justice League: Gods and Monsters General Zod, Darkseid
(voices)
Direct-to-video
2016 Batman: Bad Blood James Gordon
(voice)
2019 Batman: Hush

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1995 Models Inc. Trevor WinslowEpisode: "Exposure"
All My Children Dr. Jonathan Kinder1 episode
Ellen Mike LyonsEpisode: "She Ain’t Friendly, She’s My Mother"
1996 The John Larroquette Show DavidEpisode: "Happy Endings"
1996–
1998
Beverly Hills 90210 Carl Schmidt / Hank Bradley4 episodes
1999 Providence Beau TuckerEpisode: "All good Dogs Go to Heaven"
The Bold and the Beautiful Trevor McEvoy5 episodes
Nash Bridges Rocky BrushEpisode: "Trade Off"
2000 Port Charles Dr. Joshua Lock4 episodes
2004 Star Trek: Enterprise Xindi-Reptilian Soldier3 episodes
2005–
2006
Weeds Megan's Dad2 episodes
2006 E-Ring Dr. WolfeEpisode: "War Crimes"
2006–
2009
Kyle XY Stephen Trager43 episodes
2008 Bones JP GrattonEpisode: "The He in the She"
Desperate Housewives Peter HickeyEpisode: "There's Always a Woman"
2014 Turbo Fast Boss Spider, Paul
(voices)
Episode: "A Tale of Two Turbos"
Beware the Batman Dr. Anatol Mykros
(voice)
Episode: "Unique"
Rake Clay RandolphEpisode: "Bigamist"
Baby Daddy JimEpisode: "The Bet"
2014–
2015
Faking It Liam's Dad6 episodes
2015 Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles Kobra
(voice)
Episode: "Big"
2016 NCIS Richard PorterEpisode: "React"
2017 NCIS: Los Angeles LA District Attorney Frank GibsonEpisode: "Queen Pin"
2017–
2018
Freedom Fighters: The Ray Richard Terrill
(voice)
4 episodes
2019 Love, Death & Robots Sr. Sergeant Kravchenko, Private Kaminsky
(voices)
Episode: "The Secret War"

Video games

YearTitleVoice roleNotes
2012 Halo 4 Spartan John-117 / InterrogatorMotion capture only [3]
2013 Gears of War: Judgment Colonel Ezra Loomis [2] [5]
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII Additional voicesEnglish dub
2015 Mobius Final Fantasy
Halo 5: Guardians Spartan John-117Motion capture only
Fallout 4 Daniel Finch, Nathan Filmore, Drifters, additional voices
Rise of the Tomb Raider Additional voices
2016 Fallout 4: Nuka-World Cleansed, Zachariah, Pack Captives
2020 Gears Tactics Sid RedburnVoice
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Russell AdlerVoice and performance capture
2021 Halo Infinite Spartan John-117Motion capture only
2022 Horizon Forbidden West Vezreh, Aluf, Additional voices
2022 Star Ocean: The Divine Force Bertrand Hyrein [2]

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Preceded by Portrayer of Batman
2000–2002
Succeeded by