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Kyle Hebert

Kyle Hebert is an actor, born 1969.

Kyle Hebert's reputation rests on work that mostly sits outside this catalogue. He is the narrator and the teenage and adult Gohan in Funimation's Dragon Ball dub, Sousuke Aizen in Bleach, Kiba Inuzuka in Naruto, Kamina in Gurren Lagann, Noriaki Kakyoin in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, and Ryu in the Street Fighter games. That is a large body of dub and game work, and it shaped how a generation of English-speaking fans heard anime.

What our records hold instead is the odd margin of that career, and it is more interesting than a tidy list would be. He turns up as Ryu in Wreck-It Ralph, which is his game role walking into someone else's movie. He is back as Gohan in Dragon Ball DAIMA. Beyond that the credits skew heavily toward mid-budget family animation, The Son of Bigfoot, Bigfoot Family, Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness, The House of Magic, a Turtle's Tale sequel, where American dub actors are routinely hired to give the English versions a voice. The deliberately cheap cult oddity Manborg sits in there too.

Movies (12)

TV (1)

Where to start with Kyle Hebert

The neatest single credit to hear first is Wreck-It Ralph, because he plays Ryu, the character he voices in the games, inside a film about arcade characters. It is a walk-on, and it explains his whole cross-media position.

For the work that made his name, Dragon Ball DAIMA is the only real Dragon Ball entry here and puts him back on Gohan. Resident Evil: Degeneration shows the game-dub side. After that you are into the curiosities: Jackie Chan Adventures is early bit-part work, The Son of Bigfoot and Bigfoot Family are the family animations that dominate his catalogue entries, and Manborg is the deliberate low-budget joke that has outlived most of them.

Genres Kyle Hebert works in