Dan Woren

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Dan Woren
OccupationVoice actor
Years active1980–present

Dan Woren is an American voice actor who is known for providing voice work for anime, television, and video games. His role was voicing Roy Fokker in the Robotech series in the 1980s. [1] Other major voice roles include Jagi in Fist of the North Star , Byakuya Kuchiki in Bleach , Yang Newman in Macross Plus , and Caster in Fate/Zero . [2] He has narrated over 60 audiobooks and won various awards from AudioFile magazine. [3]

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Filmography

Anime

List of dubbing performances in anime
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
1985 Robotech Roy Fokker [1] [4]
1995 Armitage III Rene D'AnclaudeOVA, Also Poly Matrix
As Jackson Daniels
[5] [6]
Macross Plus Yang NeumanAs Jackson Daniels [7] [8] [6]
1999 Fist of the North Star Jagi the Pretender [7]
Outlaw Star Saiyo WongEp. 22
As Jackson Daniels
[6]
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket Colonel KillingAs Jackson Daniels
Samurai X Saito Hajime Sony dub
As Jackson Daniels
1999-2000 Digimon Adventure Keisuke Tachikawa
2000 Arc the Lad CougarAs Jackson Daniels [9] [6]
Dinozaurs Drago Tyran
Trigun Chapel the Evergreen
As Jackson Daniels
[6]
2002 Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran Officer Nakasaka [5]
2003 Gun Frontier Sheriff Kozule
Heat Guy J Gene GlenAs Jackson Daniels [6]
Wild Arms: Twilight Venom Dennis [5]
2004 Gungrave Laguna Glock, others
As Jackson Daniels
[6]
Kaze no Yojimbo Train Conductor, Sorata, Ken, Tanida's Aide [5]
Yukikaze Major James Bukhar
2005 Grenadier Various charactersAs Jackson Daniels [6]
Kyo Kara Maoh! Gwendal von Voltaire [7] [6]
Paranoia Agent Takamine, others [6]
Naruto Hidden Mist Ninja, Boatman [5]
Samurai Champloo Various charactersAs Jackson Daniels [6]
2006 Gun Sword Gadved [5]
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OAV3 Baguma
2006-14 Bleach Byakuya Kuchiki [7]
2007 Tokko Shogo Muramasa [5]
2008 Gurren Lagann Zorthy Kanai [7]
Strait-Jacket Gray [10]
2009-10 Monster Detective Messner, Hans Georg Schuwald [11]
2011 Durarara!! Haruya Shiki
2013 Digimon Fusion Wisemon, others [11]
Fate/Zero Caster [11] [7]
2015 Durarara!!×2 Haruya Shiki [7] [12]
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Rudol von StroheimAs W.T. Falke
Yo-kai Watch Jason Forester(Season 1-2)
2022-present Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Byakuya Kuchiki, Chojiro Tadaoki Sasakibe, Young Chojiro Tadaoki Sasakibe [11]
2024 From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke Genji Sanada, Shota's Dad, Joe's dad

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
Attack of the Super Monsters Captain Jim Starbuck, Ashtoreth
1989 Dragonball Turtle, Soldiers, M.C., Restaurant OwnerEdit of movies of 1 and 3
1990 Fist of the North Star JagiEnglish version of 1986 film [11] [5]
1995 Barefoot Gen Seijo; Enola Gay Crew 3; Yama's Well-Wisher; Bullied Manfilm [5]
Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie Cobra Streamline English dub
2008 Bleach: Memories of Nobody Byakuya Kuchiki English Dub
2009Magnum FarceUncle Spilky, Thug 3, Cop 3, (various others)
Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion Byakuya Kuchiki English Dub
2011 Bleach: Fade to Black Byakuya Kuchiki
2012 Bleach: Hell Verse Byakuya Kuchiki
2016 Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone Jigen [7]

Dubbing

List of voice performances in live-action and other dubbing
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
The Adventures of Dynamo DuckMorris, Bugsy, Manny Mankwrench, Smokey DuBois, Hypnocat
1996 Power Rangers Zeo Hydro-Contaminator, Drill MasterUncredited
2001 Power Rangers Time Force Medicon [11]
2002 Power Rangers Wild Force Zen-Aku, Onikage
2006 Cromartie High - The Movie Kai Ato

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2002 Heroes of Might and Magic IV Tarnum
Robotech: Battlecry Roy Fokker [13]
2004 Robotech: Invasion Silas
The Bard's Tale Additional voices [14]
2006 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Incidental characters [15]
Persona 3 IgorAlso FES, Persona 3 Portable [7]
2007 Bleach: Shattered Blade Byakuya Kuchiki
2008 Persona 4 IgorAlso Golden, Arena [7]
Final Fantasy IV Yang [11]
2009 Klonoa Balue, Grandpa
Bleach: The 3rd Phantom Byakuya Kuchiki
2011 Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Arthur
Bleach: Soul Resurrección Byakuya Kuchiki, Rudbornn Chelute
2015 Xenoblade Chronicles X Avatar (Cross, Warrior) [16]
2017 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Arthur [11]
2024 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Additional voices [17]
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak Fan Lu, Gaspard Dillon, citizensas Daniel Woren [11]

Live action

List of acting performances on film and television
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
Shelter from the Storm
5 Minutes To Midnight
Max TV Pilot
1988 Casual Sex?
1991 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
1993 Renegade BartenderEpisode: "The Hound"
1995 Babylon 5 BartenderEpisode: "Confessions and Lamentations"
Grace Under Fire
The Granny [7]
1996 Star Trek: First Contact Borg
1997 The Beneficiary
1998 Night Man Major DunnEpisode: "Hitchhiker"
2011The Amazing Charlerouxshort film [7]

Audiobooks

List of narrations on audio books
YearTitle
Author
NotesSource [18]
2010The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons
AudioFile Earphone Award [3]
2012 Hallucinations
by Oliver Sacks
[19] [20]
Why Nations Fail : the origins of power, prosperity and poverty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
[21] [22]
2013Trust Works!: Four Keys to Building Lasting Relationships
by Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Martha Lawrence
AudioFile Earphone Award [3] [23]
2014Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization
by John J. Ratey and Richard Manning
AudioFile Earphone Award in Non-Fiction & Culture [3]
The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
by Dana Allison Levy
AudioFile Earphone Award in Children & Family Listening
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
[24]


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