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]

Contents

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

Film

List of voice performances in direct-to-video and television films
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
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]
2008 Bleach: Memories of Nobody Byakuya Kuchiki English Dub
2016 Lupin the Third: Jigen's Gravestone JigenEnglish Dub [7]

Dubbing

List of voice performances in live-action and other dubbing
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2001 Power Rangers Time Force Medicon [11]
2002 Power Rangers Wild Force Zen-Aku, Onikage [11]
2006 Cromartie High - The Movie Kai Ato [11]

Video games

List of voice performances in video games
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2002 Robotech: Battlecry Roy Fokker [13]
2004 Robotech: Invasion Silas [13]
2004 The Bard's Tale Additional voices [14]
2006 Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII Incidental characters [15]
2006 Persona 3 IgorAlso FES, Persona 3 Portable [7]
2008 Persona 4 IgorAlso Golden, Arena [7]
2008 Final Fantasy IV Yang [11]
2009 Klonoa Balue, Grandpa [11]
2015 Xenoblade Chronicles X Avatar (Cross, Warrior) [16]
2017 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Arthur [11]
2024 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Additional voices [17]

Live action

List of acting performances on film and television
YearTitleRoleNotesSource
Star Trek: First Contact Borg [7]
The Granny [7]
Grace Under Fire
Night Man Major Dunn
Babylon 5 Bartender
Renegade Bartender
Shelter from the Storm
Casual Sex?
1991 Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time
The Amazing Charlerouxshort film [7]
5 Minutes To Midnight
The Beneficiary
Max TV Pilot

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]
2012 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]
2014The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher
by Dana Allison Levy
AudioFile Earphone Award in Children & Family Listening [3]
2014 Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
[24]


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