Kirk Thornton | |
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Other names | Ron Allen [1] [2] Sparky Thornton [3] Spanky Roberts Donald Lee |
Alma mater | University of Washington [4] |
Occupations |
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Years active | 1979–present |
Spouse | Julie Nesbitt [5] |
Children | 2 [4] |
Website | kirkthornton.com (archived) |
Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese animated series.
His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave , Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi , Klein in Sword Art Online , Jin in Samurai Champloo , Anavel Gato in Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory , Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin , Jet Link in Cyborg 009 , Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo , Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Number VII Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot (both since 2010) in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. [6]
In early February 1989, he also appeared as a contestant on the game show Classic Concentration . [7] [8]
Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt. [5] Together they have two children. [4]
Year | Title | Role | Crew role | Notes | Source [2] [9] |
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1991 | Zillion: Burning Night | Big Odama | |||
1992 | Fight! Iczer-One | Teacher | As Sparky Thornton | ||
1993 | Doomed Megalopolis | Doctor | |||
The Cockpit | Ensign Nogami | ||||
1995 | Crimson Wolf | Professor Shagdol | |||
1997 | Street Fighter II V | Guile | [10] | ||
Super Pig | Milton Massen | ||||
Black Jack | Black Jack | ||||
1998 | Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory | Anavel Gato | As Sparky Thornton | [10] | |
Fushigi Yūgi | Hotohori | ||||
1999 | Serial Experiments Lain | Masami Eiri | [10] | ||
Perfect Blue | Yamashiro | As Sparky Thornton, grouped under Voice Cast | [11] | ||
Cowboy Bebop | Steve, Asimov Solensan | ||||
1999–2001 | Digimon: Digital Monsters | Gabumon, Mummymon, others | Adventure/02/Tamers | ||
2000 | The Castle of Cagliostro | Count Lazare do Cagliostro | As Sparky Thornton. In the 1992 English dub of the film, he voiced Gendarme Captain Gustav and the Archbishop. | ||
2001 | Rurouni Kenshin | Hajime Saito | As Sparky Thornton | [3] | |
Transformers: Robots in Disguise | Dr. Onishi | ||||
2002 | Love Hina | Seta Noriyasu | As Ronald Allen | [12] | |
Digimon Frontier | Tsunomon, Gabumon, Karatenmon | [13] | |||
Gundress | ADR director | ||||
Cosmo Warrior Zero | ADR director | ||||
Ys | Ruta Gemma, Kaita | Credited as Ron Allen and Sparky Thornton | [14] | ||
2003 | Ys II: Castle in the Heavens | Darm, Ruta Gemma | Credited as Ron Allen | [15] | |
s-CRY-ed | ADR director | ||||
Heat Guy J | Ken Edmundo | ||||
2004 | Duel Masters | Black Knight | |||
Wolf's Rain | Leara's father | ||||
Gad Guard | ADR director | ||||
Gungrave | Brandon Heat / Beyond the Grave | As Ron Allen | [1] | ||
Tsukihime | ADR director | ||||
Mobile Suit Gundam F91 | Sam Ehrug | ||||
Sky Blue | Cade | [10] | |||
2005 | Otogi Zoshi | ADR director | |||
Planetes | Hachirota | ||||
Mars Daybreak | ADR director | ||||
IGPX | Mark | TV series | |||
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG | Kuze | ||||
2005–06 | Samurai Champloo | Jin | Grouped under English Voice Cast | ||
2005–09 | Naruto | Kisame Hoshigaki, Tazuna, others | ADR director (episodic) | ||
2006 | Eureka Seven | Matthieu | [10] | ||
Kannazuki no Miko | Girochi | Voice Director | [16] | ||
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo | Don Patch | ||||
Fate/stay night | Kiritsugu Emiya | [17] | |||
2006–13 | Bleach | Narrator, others | ADR director, ADR script | [18] | |
2007 | Digimon Data Squad | Homer Yushima | [13] | ||
Afro Samurai | Various | ||||
2008 | Blue Dragon | Minotaur | ADR director (episodic) | ||
Code Geass | Kaname Ohgi | ||||
Strait Jacket | George Thomson | [19] | |||
2009 | Monster | The Baby, others | |||
2009–13 | Stitch! | Hämsterviel, Suzuki, others | [20] | ||
2009–18 | Naruto: Shippuden | Kisame Hoshigaki, Fukasaku, others | |||
2012–2014 | Monsuno | Beyal | |||
2012 | Persona 4: The Animation | Kinshiro Morooka | [10] | ||
The Testament of Sister New Devil | Jin Toujou | ||||
2012–13 | Blue Exorcist | Shiro Fujimoto, Satan | [21] | ||
2013 | B-Daman Crossfire | Goichiro Tsukinowa / Grizz Sukino | [10] | ||
K | Daikaku Kokujoji, Yujiro Benzai, Saburota Bandom, Prime Minister, Yo Chitose | [22] | |||
2013–15 | Digimon Fusion | Tactimon, AxeKnightmon, Leviamon, Kabukimon, others | |||
2013–present | Sword Art Online | Klein/Ryōtarō Tsuboi | 3 TV seasons and a movie | [23] | |
The Jungle Bunch | Maurice | [10] | |||
2014 | Blood Lad | ADR director | [24] | ||
2014-2019 | Sailor Moon | Sakiko's Father (ep. 20), Takao (ep. 95), Katsutoshi Yamada (ep. 98), Dr. Gia/Sailor Doctor (ep. 185), Jotaro Kiriyama/Sailor Antique (ep. 186) | Viz Media dub | ||
2015 | Coppelion | Mitsuo Kawabata | [25] | ||
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin | Ramba Ral | [26] | |||
Durarara!!×2 | ADR director | Directed the first part called Shō with Patrick Seitz | [27] [28] [29] | ||
BlazBlue Alter Memory | Jubei | [10] [30] | |||
2015–16 | Aldnoah.Zero | Saazbaum | [31] | ||
2016 | One-Punch Man | Snek, Sitch, Fukegao, and Frog-Man | [32] | ||
March Comes In like a Lion | Kai Shimada | [33] | |||
2017 | Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga | Shiro Fujimoto, Ukemochi (ep9) | |||
Hunter x Hunter | Dalzollene | 2011 series | [34] | ||
Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day | Atsushi Yadomi | [35] | |||
2018 | The Seven Deadly Sins | Galand | Netflix dub | ||
2018–2020 | Baki | Yujiro | Netflix ONA | [10] | |
2019–present | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Hand Demon, Tanjuro Kamado | [36] [37] | ||
2020 | Marvel Future Avengers | Arnim Zola, Scragg, Councilman Reiner, Narrator | [10] | ||
Drifting Dragons | Ura | Netflix dub | |||
Dorohedoro | Narrator | ||||
Great Pretender | Seiji Ozaki | [10] | |||
2021 | Kuroko's Basketball | Masaaki Nakatani | |||
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire | Inspector Ginzo Nakamori | ||||
Vinland Saga | Askeladd | Netflix dub | |||
The Faraway Paladin | Gus | Crunchyroll dub | [38] | ||
2022 | Fate/Grand Carnival | James Moriarty | [39] | ||
Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War | Rojuro Ohtoribashi, Hiyosu | ||||
2023 | The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War | Bleublanc (ep. 7) | |||
Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre | Tagaisu ("Four x Four Walls"; ep. 4a), Rogi ("Mold"; ep. 6a), Additional Voices |
Year | Title | Role | Crew role | Notes | Source [2] [9] |
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2007 | Edgar and Ellen | Mayor | |||
2009 | Huntik: Secrets & Seekers | DeFoe | [40] | ||
Superman: Red Son | Jimmy Olsen, Batman, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, Pyotr Roslov | Web series | Tweet [10] | ||
Spectrobes | Commander Grant | ||||
2012 | The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes | Adam Warlock | Episode: "Michael Korvac" | [10] | |
Star Wars: The Clone Wars | King Sanjay Rash, others | Eps. "Front Runner"; "The Soft War"; "Tipping Point" | [41] [42] | ||
2013 | Mad | Matt Hooper, Spock | Ep. "Jaws the Great and Powerful/Old Spock's Off Their Spockers" | [10] | |
2014 | Clarence | Buckey O'Neil | |||
2014–17 | Sonic Boom | Orbot, Shadow the Hedgehog, Charlie, Beaver Policeman, Leroy the Turtle, Mike the Ox, Beta, Cliff, Chameleon, Walrus Male, Redd Heron, Sheep Villager, Froglodyte Drill Sergeant, Warthog Male, Professor Kingsford, T.W. Barker, Salty, Wolfie | [43] [44] [6] | ||
2019 | Love, Death & Robots | Old Man | Ep. "Fish Night" | ||
2019-Present | Pucca: Love Recipe | Uncle Dumpling, Bruce | |||
2020 | The Idhun Chronicles | Ashran | Netflix dub | ||
2023 | Pluto | Schelling | [45] |
Year | Title | Role | Crew role | Notes | Source [2] [9] |
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2000 | Digimon: The Movie | Gabumon, MetalGarurumon and Omnimon (Shared) | English dub | [10] | |
2004 | What the Bleep Do We Know!? | Voice Over Talent | [46] | ||
2016–2018 | Digimon Adventure tri. | Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon (shared), Tsunomon | English dub | [47] | |
2016 | Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV | Newscaster | [10] | ||
2019 | The Queen's Corgi | Donald Trump | |||
2020 | Ni no Kuni | Teacher | English dub | ||
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna | Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, Tsunomon, Omnimon (Shared), Gabumon (Bond of Friendship) | [48] | |||
2021 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train | Tanjuro Kamado | [10] |
Year | Title | Role | Crew role | Notes | Source [2] [9] |
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1994 | Dirty Pair: Project Eden | Boss | |||
1995 | Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie | Guile | As Donald Lee; English dub | [10] | |
1998 | Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie | Hiei | As Sean Thornton; English dub | ||
1999 | Black Jack: The Movie | Black Jack | |||
Perfect Blue | Yamashiro | As Sparky Thornton | |||
2001 | Akira | Various | As Sparky Thornton, Animaze/Pioneer dub | ||
2008 | Resident Evil: Degeneration | President | English dub | ||
2009 | Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple | Munk | [10] [18] | ||
2013 | Tiger & Bunny: The Rising | Muramasa Kaburagi | English dub | [49] | |
The Snow Queen | Housemaster | [10] | |||
2014 | The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale | Jojo | |||
2015 | The Nutcracker Sweet | Drosselmeyer, Commander, Mice | Peruvian film | ||
2017 | The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover | Antonio, Mechanic | |||
The Jungle Bunch | Maurice | English dub | |||
The Son of Bigfoot | Japanese Man #1 (a.k.a. Asian Investor #1) | Belgian-French film | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
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2012 | Resident Evil: Damnation | Ivan Judanovich / Ataman | [50] |
Year | Title | Country | Dubbed from | Role | Original actor | Source [2] |
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2016 | Marseille | France | French | Farid | Hedi Bouchenafa | [51] |
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