Joshua Seth | |
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Born | [1] Kent, Ohio, U.S.[2] | December 2, 1970
Occupation(s) | Voice actor, comedian, author, motivational speaker |
Years active | 1988–present |
Agent | Key Artist Group |
Children | 2 |
Website | https://JoshuaSeth.com |
Joshua Seth is an American voice actor, comedian, motivational speaker, and author.
Biography
Seth was born in Kent, Ohio, and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.[3][4] As a child, Seth attended several experimental programs at Kent State University where he was admitted at the age of eight. Later, he attended Hampshire College and the New York University's film school Tisch School of the Arts where he trained as a performing artist. He has voiced many popular anime characters, including Taichi "Tai" Kamiya in Digimon Adventure series. He was the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block.
He retired from voice acting in 2006 to focus on his other works.
From 2006 to 2020, Seth toured the world as a mentalist and magician. He has won awards from Hollywoodʼs Magic Castle, appeared in five of his own TV specials in Japan and South Korea and performed at over 2,000 events in over 30 countries.
Between 2016 and 2018, he came out of voice acting retirement to star in all of the Digimon Adventure tri. movies, recorded in Hollywood, CA.[5] He then reprised his role in Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna in 2020.
He returned to non Digimon voice acting (having retired from voice acting, with the exception of Digimon) in December 2022 with the role of Kaneda in The Prince of Tennis.[6]
Seth is also motivational speaker and the author of a book on peak performance called Finding Focus In A Changing World.
He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.[7]
Filmography
Animated series English dubbing
- Arc the Lad - Elk
- The Big O - Cop
- The Black Angel - Kosugi's Guard
- Cowboy Bebop - McIntyre
- Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier - Joe Shimamura/Cyborg 009
- Daigunder - Ryugu
- Digimon Adventure - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Motimon, Tentomon (ep.1), Pabumon, Pumpkinmon
- Digimon Adventure 02 - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya. Motimon, Tai's son
- Digimon Tamers - Kumbhiramon
- Digimon Frontier - Wizardmon, Teppei, Yutaka Himi
- Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure - Kazuki Yotsuga
- Duel Masters - Shobu Kirifuda (Season One)
- Eagle Riders - Additional Voices
- éX-Driver - Souichi Sugano
- Flint the Time Detective - Unita, Additional Voices
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Omba (Ep. 9 & 11)
- Giant Robo - Daisaku Kusama
- Honeybee Hutch - Hutch
- IGPX - Takeshi Noa (micro-series only)
- Last Exile - Dio Eraclea
- Little Women - Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
- Macross Plus - Additional Voices
- Moldiver - Nozomu Ozora
- Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective - Schoolboy
- Orguss - Additional Voices
- Pilot Candidate - Zero Enna
- Pokémon - Kids WB Announcer
- The Return of Dogtanian - Philippe
- Rurouni Kenshin - Eiji Mishima
- Saint Tail - Asuka Jr.[8]
- Samurai Girl Real Bout High School - Daisaku Kamiya
- Simsala Grimm - Doc Croc (Saban dub)
- Speed Racer X - Sparky
- Tenchi in Tokyo - Additional Voices
- The Prince of Tennis - Kenada
- Tokyo Pig - Spencer Weinberg-Takahama
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise - Carl
- Trigun - Young Knives
- The Twelve Kingdoms - Ikuya Asano
- Urda - Alan
- Vampire Princess Miyu - Helmsman, Young Maki, Yang
- Wolf's Rain - Hige
- X - Additional Voices
- Yukikaze - Ito
- Zatch Bell! - Maruss
- Zenki - Akira, Goki
Animated films English dubbing
- Akira - Tetsuo Shima (Pioneer dub)
- Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card (2nd Movie), Leave It to Kero (short) - Takashi Yamazaki
- Digimon: The Movie - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya (Born of Koromon and Our War Game!)
- Digimon Adventure tri. - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya,[5] Motimon
- Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya[9]
- DNA Sights 999.9 - Tetsuro Daiba
- Mobile Suit Gundam F91 - Arthur Jung
Animations
- All Grown Up! - Yu-Got
- The Batman - Kids WB Announcer
- Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol - Additional Voices
- The Little Polar Bear - Lemming #1
- Saban's Adventures of Oliver Twist - Additional Voices
- Totally Spies! - Arnold
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! - Additional Voices
Films
- 50 First Dates - Painter (uncredited)
- Gorgeous - Additional Voices
- Racing Stripes - Additional Voices
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - Prisoner
Video games
- Ape Escape: On the Loose - Jake
- Digimon Rumble Arena - Taichi "Tai" Kamiya[10]
- JumpStart - Pierre, C.J.
- JumpStart Advanced 1st Grade - Jimmy Bumples
- Stonekeep - Grug, Ice Sharga Guard, Tiny Sharga
- Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose - chaos, Hermann[10]
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - chaos[10]
References
- ↑ "Happy 50th birthday to Joshua Seth". twitter.com. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ↑ "DIGIMON DIGITAL MONSTERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSHUA SETH". brutalgamer.com. Retrieved January 10, 2024. – Joshua Seth's place of birth
- ↑ Berko, Ray (January 2011). "Joshua Seth: From Kent to Hollywood to PlayhouseSquare". CoolCleveland. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ↑ Kallio, Chris (March 26, 2008). "Hilarious hypnotism". KentWired. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- 1 2 AWN Staff Editor. "Toei Animation Announces Voice Cast for U.S. Release of New 'Digimon' Feature". Anime World Network. AWN, Inc. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
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has generic name (help) - ↑ [@joshuaseth ROLE ANNOUNCEMENT I’m the English voice of Kaneda in PRINCE OF TENNIS on #Crunchyroll! This show marks my return to voice acting after a very long break, so thanks to @SoundCadence @MikeHaimoto and @itsmorphytime for getting me back in the game ]
- ↑ "About". Retrieved 4 February 2018.
- ↑ "I Hate Wedding Veils!". Saint Tail – Volume 2 (DVD). Episode 4. Tokyopop. Event occurs at Closing credits, English Language Cast.
- ↑ Anime News Network: "Celebrating 20th Anniv. of Digimon, Shout! Factory to Release Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna on Blu-ray and DVD July 7, 2020"
- 1 2 3 "Joshua Seth (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
External links
- Official website
- Joshua Seth at IMDb
- Joshua Seth at Anime News Network's encyclopedia