Weird choices for video game voice actors

[George White]

Tom Baker and Paul Darrow also did voices for the Medievil games.
Darrow's done a lot actually, like Guy Siner (another Brit, well dual-nationalty actor who's done a lot of voice work in the states), he's done quite a few Star Wars games, doubling for Peter Cushing.

[Glebe]

Tom Baker and Paul Darrow also did voices for the Medievil games.

Ooh, right... great games!

[George White]

Jean Gilpin, who played a crush of Pike's in Dad's Army has done lots of gameswork.

[FredNurke]

There isn't much other work that Paul Darrow can do these days, the poor bastard.

[George White]

There isn't much other work that Paul Darrow can do these days, the poor bastard.

Yes, getting your legs cut off and being confined to the world of badly dubbed scooter ads.
Medievil was before the amputation though.

[George White]

Adam Barker, the paedophile son of Ronnie appears in James Cameron's FMV game based on Titanic, but simply because his are scenes Cameron cut from the film.

[Chairman Bodog]

Brian Blessed in Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure.

[Cloud]

I seem to recall Don Beech from The Bill (Bill Murray) was in one of the CoD games?  I spent the whole game being completely unable to unsee him whenever he spoke.

[touchingcloth]

I seem to recall Don Beech from The Bill (Bill Murray) was in one of the CoD games?  I spent the whole game being completely unable to unsee him whenever he spoke.

Billy Murray? I was just going to say that one voice actor I always remember is captain Price from CoD 4, mainly because shortly before that game came out my housemates and I were a little obsessed with this InjuryLaywers4U advert which he voiced:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4JyKYVQ60s

In particular the comment that really should go unsaid in an ad for a legal service of "they're real lawyers..."

When CoD came out and we joined the dots from that to the advert we liked, we spent a lot of time saying things like "Soap...Soap! They're real lawyers, you know," and "I was going to pull fingernails from these ragheads to get them to talk, but they're real lawyers."

Good times.

[touchingcloth]

[tag]I HOPE THIS IS NOT CHRIS'S BLOOD[/tag]

Bit of a madeleine moment for me, that, as it's a line that my brother and I used to quote at each other relentlessly along with "Stop! Don't open that door!" and "What is this?!", so reading your tag made those lines and the weird crunchy footstep sound effects come flooding back to me, as well as my anus providing a runny sympathy shart for me to enjoy at the memory of that first cunt crawling along the floor to eat your legs.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Yeah, it's a bit of a shame it was redone for the gamecube/wii remakes and the DS version (that was otherwise very similar to the psx/pc versions with the dodgy voice acting).

[thecuriousorange]

I would say Christopher Lloyd in Toonstruck.

But considering he appeared in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, making him the sole human in a cartoon world was hardly a "weird choice".

[George White]

Fable I/II/III - Hugo "Treguard" Myatt, Jennifer Saunders, Julia Sawalha, Oliver Cotton, Stephen Fry, Zoe Wanamaker, Alan Ford, Chris Fairbank,  Colin McFarlane, Dave Lamb, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Cecil, James Corden,  Jon Glover, Sean Pertwee, Simon Greenall, Rosie Cavaliero, Richard Ridings, Ben/Robbie Stevens of Terrahawks fame, Vas Blackwood and Stephen Greif, the third one - III, Cleese, Bernard Hill, Michael Fassbender, Ben Kingsley, Kellie Bright, Rufus Jones, Lucy Gaskell, Sarah Hadland, Edward Hardwicke, Jason Manford, Joseph Millson, Josette Simon, Tony Marshall from Life on Mars, Simon Williams, Ramon Tikaram, Jonathan Ross, Green Wing's Karl Theobald, Grange Hill's Stuart Organ, Mark Heap, Andrew Buchan, Matt Di Angelo  and good old David De Keyser, one of the kings of voiceovers/dubbing (Bonds and Hammer, especially) in Britain.

[St_Eddie]

Samuel L. Jackson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

I would also care to take this opportunity to declare that Barry Burton is a fucking legend.  LEGEND BARRY.

[boki]

Bloodborne and Dark Souls having actors from The Bill and Casualty, who seemingly with no other video game credits to their name.

The female Wii Fit trainer was voiced by an actor who'd been in The Bill, too.
_{not that I ever had the sort of mild infatuation that urged me to look this up a few years ago}

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Samuel L. Jackson in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

He's a popular actor, well known for playing larger than life types in crime films. It seems like obvious casting.

Speaking of GTA, Cara Delevingne - then better known as a fashion model than as a person who talks - in the voice only role of one of the radio DJs in GTA5.

[St_Eddie]

He's a popular actor, well known for playing larger than life types in crime films. It seems like obvious casting.

Aye, you're absolutely correct.  It just seems odd to me because I would never have expected to hear Samuel L. Jackson cropping up in a GTA game.  I thoroughly enjoy the GTA series but it seems as though it would be beneath him somehow.

[George White]

Richard Easton from the Brothers and Doctor Who - Time-Flight pops up in GTA V too, in  voice and likeness as Nigel the British tourist.

[George White]

Sta Wars the Old Republic has the most insane cast for a game. Among regular video game/animation voices like Maurice Lamarche, Kevin Michael Richardson, Robin Atkin Downes, Paul Darrow, Jennifer Hale, Nolan North and David Hayter,  we haev Rachel Leigh Cook, Olivia Hussey, Stacy "Seaquest" Haiduk, Bertie Carvel, Broadchurch's Mark Bazeley, Kristoffer Tabori, Edward Hibbert, Lacey Chabert, Tony "brother of Joan" Armatrading, Doug "Pinhead" Bradley, Francis Guinan (Marshall's dadin Eerie, Indiana), CHiPs star/father of Chris,Robert Pine, Alan Fudge from the Man of Atlantis, Alec Newman, Alan "Bullshot" Shearman, Armin Shimerman, Bianca Lawson, Christopher Neame, Christopher Godwin (ofPorridge the movie and Astronauts fame), Clive Revill (who does mostly voice work now), Dave Lamb, David Rintoul, BBC radio voices like Eve Karpf, Gary Martin and Don McCorkindale, Elliot Cowan, Ivan Kaye, Graham McTavish, James Russo, Brush Srokes' Harry van gorkum, Jamie Bamber, Julian Holloway (who now does a lot of voice work, altohugh I wonder with Godwin being there, was the voice director a fan of Porridge the movie) Julian Sands, Julian Wadham, Juliet Landau, Keith Szarabajka, Jonathan Cake, Joseph Millson, Laraine Newman, Malcolm Sinclair, Martin Jarvis, Mark Lewis Jones, Miles Anderson, Matthew Labyorteaux, Nicholas Boulton, Phil Proctor, Richard Ridings, Rob Rackstraw (Brit cartoon voice du jour), Reno Wilson, Grange Hill's Stuart Organ, Sherman Howard, Bub the zombie in Day of the Dead, Tim Bentinck, Thomas  Wilson, Toby Kebbell, James Russo, George Coe (not Cole, US character actor, Kramer vs Kramer,etc) and Victoria Hamilton

[George White]

Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic's cast is  big too - Ed Asner, Rafael Sbarge, Zita Steptoe, JB Blanc, Tom Kane, Ethan "Neelix" Phillips, the Bill's Seeta Indrani. Drop the Dead Donkey's Ingrid Lacey, Anthony May (star of 1970's No Blade of Cross - done lots of Bill and Casualty), the Feathered Serpent star/ex Mr. Rula Lenska, Brian Deacon, Andy Secombe not playing Watto, Kelly Hu, Sara Kestleman, Kristoffer Tabori,  and otherwise entirely Australia/New Zealand-based Home and Away/LOTR actor David Weatherly,  voice regulars Jennifer Hale, Jim Ward, Jess Harnell, James Horan and Corey Burton, Neil Ross, Nick Jameson, Robin "son of Leonard" Sachs, RinoRomano, Phil Lamarr, Pat Fraley, Neil Jameson, Simon Templeman (of the BBC's Talisman) the other Michael Gough, Brian George, Daran Norris, Frank Welker, Gregg Berber, Cam Clarke,  Grey Delisle, and Kevin Michael Richardson.

Ramon Tikaram, Stuart Organ, Lewis Macleod and Daniel Hill all voice the Tintin game. The later Fables - Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Buchan, Zoe Wanamaker, and good old David de Keyser.

The original Fallout has featured Kurtwood Smith, Jeffrey Jones, Michael Dorn, Ron Perlman, Peter Jason, Dwight Schultz, Kenneth Mars, Tony Shalhoub, David Warner, the Ink Spots (!), Richard Moll, Keith David, Clancy Brown, CCH Pounder, Tony Jay, Brad Garrett, alongside the likes of Charlie Adler, Alan Oppenheimer,Michael Bell, Jason Marsden, Tress McNeille, Dee Bradley Baker, Kath Soucie, Cree Summer, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, Brian George, Larry Cedar, Cam Clarke, Earl Boen, Grey delisle

[St_Eddie]

...Earl Boen...

LeChuck!

[George White]

LeChuck!

Yes, I know him more as a "that guy!", Terminator, Battle Beyond the Stars, and also a lot of cartoons.

[bgmnts]

Peter Dinklage in Destiny. Just didn't work. Most actors are poor voice actors.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Rik Mayall in Hogs of War.

'You're not very good at this are you?'.

[itsfredtitmus]

Rik Mayall in Hogs of War.

'You're not very good at this are you?'.

best part of that game

[BeardFaceMan]

Peter Dinklage in Destiny. Just didn't work. Most actors are poor voice actors.

I actually preferred Dinklebot to the guy that replaced him, he did just fine, its just he was given an absolute dogshit script to work with.

[bgmnts]

I actually preferred Dinklebot to the guy that replaced him, he did just fine, its just he was given an absolute dogshit script to work with.

Fair dos.

Actually the guys from Dynasty Warriors 3 are pretty special but I dont think thats a case of poor voice actor choice.

[Twed]

Jon Pertwee also voiced a few characters too.  And Kate Robbins.  And Eric Idle as Rincewind.

And Tony Robinson

[itsfredtitmus]

and Tommy Robinson