Daniel Hagen
Daniel Hagen is an actor.
Hotel Manager. Bartender. Construction Worker. Read the live-action half of Daniel Hagen's credits and you get a list of functions rather than people, which is the honest job description of a working American character actor. He has been the guest on Seinfeld, CSI, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Charmed: the man who delivers the necessary information and then leaves.
The named parts are mostly in the recording booth. Video games gave him characters instead of job titles, including several Star Wars games (Bounty Hunter, X-Wing Alliance, Knights of the Old Republic), then Area-51, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, three Ratchet and Clank games, Dishonored and the Skylanders series. That is a substantial career, built in a medium that lists its performers in small text at the end.
The animation work follows the same pattern: Dr. Sivana in Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Monty in Evil Con Carne, Santa Claus in ThunderCats Roar. It is a career of two halves, one visible and anonymous, the other invisible and specific. The second half is the one worth listening for.
Movies (5)
TV (7)
Where to start with Daniel Hagen
Justice League: Gods and Monsters is the best use of him here. It is a hard-edged alternate-universe DC film and his Dr. Sivana is a proper villain part with real lines rather than plot delivery.
Evil Con Carne is the fun one, a deliberately absurd cartoon from the Cartoon Network era that treated its supporting voices as a comedy resource rather than furniture. Chicago 10 is the outlier and the most interesting production on the list, an animated documentary that drops voice actors straight into a historical record.
On the live-action side, The Guardian hands him an actual character with a name and a profession, which already puts it ahead of most of his screen work. The Deep End of the Ocean and For Love or Money are the studio credits, and both give you precisely as much of him as the character names promise.