Brian Dobson

Vancouver runs a voice industry, and this page is what a long career inside it looks like: Ocean Studios and other local houses, dubbed anime, syndicated action cartoons, LEGO series, direct-to-video Barbie features, and an enormous amount of doubling. Thirty-four titles are listed here and the range of quality across them is wide, which is normal. The work is the work.

The specialism is the theatrical villain. Skeletor in the 2002 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe is the marquee role, and it is harder than it looks, because that character has to be genuinely menacing and completely ridiculous inside the same line, sometimes the same word. Wikipedia adds Lex Luthor in Krypto the Superdog, Majin Buu and Dr. Gero in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z, Muso in Inuyasha and Red Alert in Transformers: Armada, which is on this page. He has a big, projected, faintly stagey delivery, and the antagonist parts are where it belongs.

The rest of the job is utility, and the credit fields on this page show it plainly: Dallas Wannamaker and an announcer and a computer voice in Ratchet & Clank; a mayor and a Jack in a Barbie feature; Ronin and Soul Archer in Ninjago; Fleetwood Yak and a heavy metal pig in Rock Dog 2. Covering three or four parts in one production without the audience noticing is the actual skill, and it is invisible by design. He also plays Ben Grimm in Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes, takes a live-action role in Hard Ride to Hell, and appears as himself in the He-Man documentary Power of Grayskull.