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Redd Pepper | |
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| Born | Richardson Green 23 June 1961 |
| Occupation | Voice actor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
Richardson Green (born 23 June 1961), known professionally as Redd Pepper, is a Barbadian-British voice actor. With his unusually deep voice and vocal style similar to that of Don LaFontaine, he is known for his work on movie trailers.
Pepper was born Richardson Green in Barbados on 23 June 1961, [1] and moved to London as a child. He has six sisters and three brothers. [1] He attended Sedgehill School in the Lewisham area of London. His first job was at a McDonald's, after which he spent six months as a firefighter. He then became a train driver on the London Underground. [1] He later claimed to have become bored very easily during this job, and would prank passengers by stopping the train between stations, turning off the lights, and talking over the loudspeakers: "I used to say stuff like: 'This is your driver speaking... or is it?' in a really spooky voice." [1]
In 1996, a television executive was a passenger on a London Underground train being driven by Pepper; upon hearing his voice over the loudspeakers, the man gave Pepper his business card and asked Pepper to call him. [1] This led to numerous jobs providing voiceovers for TV channels and adverts, and he began voicing film trailers soon after, with his first being Space Jam . [2] He also voiced Mike LeRoi/Shadow Man in the video game Shadow Man .
Pepper came to prominence when he was mistaken for Hollywood voice artist Don LaFontaine following his voice work on the trailers for Armageddon and Independence Day . [3] He has also appeared onstage as an actor, having acted in an Edinburgh Festival production of Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diaries . On 24 December 2010, he appeared on a celebrity edition of the BBC quiz show Eggheads . When asked if he missed being a train driver, he responded, "I make £3,000 to £4,000 per movie trailer. What do you think?" [1]
In October 2015, Pepper replaced Peter Dickson as the voiceover of British reality show The X Factor . However, he was only present as a voiceover at Judges' Houses, as Dickson returned at the end of the month. In April 2017, he served as announcer during Bradley Walsh's week of hosting The Nightly Show .
Redd is a supporter of football club Aston Villa F.C. [4]
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 1996 | Independence Day | UK dub |
| Space Jam | ||
| 1997 | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | |
| Men in Black | ||
| Boogie Nights | ||
| 1998 | Armageddon | |
| 1999 | The Blair Witch Project | |
| 2005 | Are We There Yet? | |
| 2007 | Are We Done Yet? | |
| Mr. Bean's Holiday | ||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2004 | Boo, Zino & the Snurks | Bramph (voice) | English dub |
| 2019 | Serenity | Plymouth DJ (voice) |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2007 | Deadline | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2008 | The Culture Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Celebrity Eggheads | Himself | |
| 2011 | The One Show | 1 episode | |
| 2013 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | 1 episode | |
| Golden Joystick Awards: The Briefing | Narrator | ||
| 2014 | How to be epic at everything | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2014–2015 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Himself | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | The X Factor | Announcer | |
| 2017 | The Nightly Show | Himself | 5 episodes |
| 2017–2019 | Pointless Celebrities | 2 episodes | |
| 2021 | Big Fat Quiz of Everything | Himself | 1 episode |
| 2021 | Life Of A Teddy Bear | Harriet Bear | 1 episode |
| 2021 | Flamingo Fantasies | Hamilton | 28 episodes |
| 2022 | Virgin Atlantic TV advert "I am What I am" | Passenger reading newspaper [5] | 1 advert |
| Year | Title | Role | Ref |
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| 1999 | Shadow Man | Mike/Shadow Man | |
| 2000 | Imperium Galactica II: Alliances | Additional voices | |
| Blade | Blade | [6] | |
| Gothic | Drax | ||
| 2001 | Shadow Man: 2econd Coming | Mike/Shadow Man | |
| 2002 | Vietcong | Additional voices | |
| 2004 | Vietcong: Fist Alpha | Additional voices | |
| Vietcong: Purple Haze | Additional voices | ||
| 2017 | Mass Effect: Andromeda | Additional voices | |
| 2023 | Baldur's Gate 3 | Sarevok Anchev | [7] |
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