Richard Epcar Biography (1955-)

Full name, Richard Michael Epcar; born April 29, 1955, in Denver, CO; son ofGeorge Buck and Shirley (maiden name, Learner) Epcar; married Ellyn Jane Stern, August 15, 1982; children: Jonathan Alexander, Jacqueline Elizabeth.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, voice artist, writer, director
Birth Details: April 29, 1955; Denver, Colorado, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Series
Voices of Mac MacKelroy and Ax, Uchu no kishi tekkaman bureido (anime; also known as Starknight Tekkaman Blade and Teknoman), 1994
Voice of Lightningborg, Beetleborgs, 1997-1998
Voice of Barbarax, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Fox, 1999
Voices of Etemon and Myotismon, Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime;also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 1999-2000
Voice of MaloMyotismon, Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2000-2001
(As Richard George) Voice of Seijuro Hiko, Rurouni Kenshin (anime), 2000
Voice of Armorhide, Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime), Fox,2001
Also appeared as Rick in Days of Our Lives, as Jake in GeneralHospital, and as Rip in Santa Barbara; voices of Ben Dixon, Lunk,and Grel, Robotech, syndicated; and voice of Daisuke Jigen for Englishversion, Rupan sansei: Part II (anime; also known as The New LupinIII).
Movies
Radio operator, The Fantastic World of D. C. Collins, NBC, 1984
First workman, Not of This World, CBS, 1991
Thug, Columbo: Strange Bedfellows, ABC, 1995
Episodic
"The Rescue," V, NBC, 1985
"The Next Murder You Hear," Moonlighting, ABC, 1985
Guard, "Knight Sting," Knight Rider, 1985
Police officer, "Wally," Highway to Heaven, NBC, 1987
Second television reporter, "Blue Man Down," Amazing Stories, NBC,1987
Workman, "Reconcilable Differences," Who's the Boss?, 1987
Second henchman, "The Investigation: Parts 1 & 2," Matlock, NBC, 1988
Security guard, "Don't Paint Your Chickens," Cheers, NBC, 1989
Jake, "The Hot Dog Man," Hard Time on Planet Earth, 1989
First officer, "Ashes to Ashes," Beverly Hills, 90210, Fox, 1991
Voice of Mutitis, "Island of Illusion: Parts 1 & 2," Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Fox, c. 1993
Voice of Shellshock, "The Trouble with Shellshock," Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Fox, c. 1993
Max, "Lily," Diagnosis Murder, CBS, 1994
Voice, "Oh Brother," VR Troopers, 1994
Voice of Fish Face, "The Sunflower Search," Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Fox, 1999
Voice of MaloMyotismon, "The Battle for Earth," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2000
Voice of VenomMyotismon, "Prophecy," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2000
Voice of MetalEtemon, "Etemon's Comeback Tour," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2000
Voice of MetalEtemon, "Ogremon's Honor," Digimon: Digital Monsters(anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon:Season 3), Fox, 2000
Voice of Cyclopter, "The Chosen Path," Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Fox, 2000
Voice of Apemon, "A Chance Encounter," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2001
Voice of Triceramon, "Dramon Power," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2001
Voice of Vexicon, "Future Unknown," Power Rangers Time Force, Fox,2001
Voice of Monochromon, "Digimon World Tour," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2001
Voice of Sinduramon, "Back to Nature, Back to Battle" (also known as "Saga of the Devas 2"), Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2001
Voice of Bowling Org, "The Tornado Spin," Power Rangers Wild Force, Fox, 2002
Voice of Snimon, "Ladies the Gentlemen: The Beetlemon," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2002
Voice of Chameleonmon, "You Want Fries with That?," Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 2002

Also voice performer for many other series.
Other
(As Richard George) Voice of Duuz, Outlaw Star (anime), Cartoon Network, 1998
Keroberos, Cardcaptors, 2000
Voice (as Richard George) of WIRED informant, Serial Experiments Lain (anime); also appeared in Guns of Paradise, Trial and Error, and Women in Prison.
Television Work
Series
(As Richard George) Additional voices, Outlaw Star (anime), Cartoon Network, 1998
Codirector, Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime; also known as Digimon 02, Digimon 03, and Digimon: Season 3), Fox, 1999-2000
Automated dialog replacement (ADR) editor for Rupan sansei: Part II (anime; also known as The New Lupin III); also voice director for the series Eagle Rider and Flint the Time Detective, Fox.
Episodic
Director of episodes of Beetleborgs, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, and the various Power Rangers series. Voice performer forepisodes of many television series, including ER, JAG, and Nash Bridges.
Other
Automated dialog replacement (ADR) director, Sherlock Holmes: Incidentat Victoria Falls (miniseries), syndicated, 1992
ADR director, Sealed with a Kiss (movie), ABC, 1998
Director of Captain Schnauzer (movie); The Clown; HoneyBee Hutch (movie), Sci-Fi Channel; Jungle Hospital; The Last Emperor; The Little Punk (movie), Showtime; Reyes and Rey (pilot); Winter's Heart; and Wisdom of the Gnomes (pilot). Also voice performer for A New Life, CBS; Path to Paradise, HBO, and many other television programs.
Film Appearances
Voice of Goemon Ishikawa for English version, Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro (anime; also known as Arsene Lupin and the Castle of Cagliostro, The Castle of Cagliostro, and Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro), Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1979
Driver, Dead Man Walking, Discovery Films, 1988
Tyler, Memoirs of an Invisible Man (also known as Les aventuresd'un homme invisible), Warner Bros., 1992
Voice of Bateau for Ghost in the Shell (anime); voices for the films Abyss of Freedom, The Combat, Alba Communications, StreetRacers, Rapi Films, and Triple Cross, Elixir; also appeared in the films Escape to Love and Street Hawk.
Film Director
Involved in directing numerous films and directing the English-language versions of numerous films, including Abyss of Freedom; Adrenaline, Networx; Amores Perros (also known as Love's a Bitch), Lions Gate Films; Amour propio; Belle Epoque, Columbia/TriStar; Bloody Trail, Networx; Chile: Threatened Hope, Cannon; Christine, Atlas; Cinema Paradiso, English version, Miramax; Cobra II, Networx; The Combat, Alba Communications; Commander Hamilton, Miramax; Cradle Song, Networx; Crimes of Father Amaro, SonyPictures Classics; Crime Story, Antenna 3; Day of the Beast; Diary of a Rapist; Don Juan, Film-Star; East Meets West, Atlas; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; Emperor and Assassin, Trimark Pictures; Manta Manta, Atlas; El Mariachi, Film Export; Everybody's Fine; Fandango, Movie Group; Felix--A Friend for Life,Networx; The Fencing Master, Capella; The Footman, Atlas; Hannah, Columbia; The Heist, Atlas; The Indifferent One; Iron Monkey, Miramax; Judge, Loved Murderer, Atlas; Kika; Marcellino Bread and Wine; Medicopter 117, Networx; Miss Diamond, H.G.; Mission Kashmir, Sony Pictures Classics; Mostly Martha, Paramount; Murderous Twins, Networx; Nowhere to Hide, Antenna 3; Outrage (also known as Despara), Columbia; Post Mortem, Sony Pictures Classics; Prom Queen, Worlds of Wonder; Remote Control, Pedro Almodovar; Roula, Atlas; Shiri, Sony Pictures Classics; Singles, Networx; Snowball, Antenna 3; SoongSisters; Street Racers, Rapi Films; Superwife; This Means We're Married?, Sha Vick; TKKG Detectives, Alba Communications;Triple Cross, Elixir; Turn On TV, CCCI; Two Cops, Atlas; Venus Murders, Networx; The Voice of Murder, Networx; Widow of Saint Pierre, Sony Pictures Classics; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; and X-mas with Willy Woof II, Networx.
Film Work
Other
Automated dialog replacement (ADR) voice, Twin Dragons, DimensionFilms, 1999
Voice performer for the films Accidental Spy, Miramax; The Appointed, 21st Century; Banana Busters, Elixir Entertainment; BauBau, Film Invest; Brother Mine, Warner Bros.; Carnival, Warner Bros.; Cinema Paradiso, English version, Miramax; Crazy Horse, Turner; Crime Story, Miramax; Day of the Beast, Trimark Pictures; Dorian Grey, Atlas; Drunken Master; The Fencing Master; The Fifth Monkey, 21st Century; Gladiator, Universal; Gods and Generals, Turner; Hard Target, Universal; Hell RaiserIII, Miramax; Hell Raiser IV, Miramax; Hopalong Cassidy, Nepenthe Films; Independence Day, Warner Bros.; The Indifferent One, Alba Communications; In Mysterious Ways, Warner Bros.; Inspector Gadget, Twentieth Century-Fox; The Man in the Iron Mask, UnitedArtists; Michelangelo, Turner; Mortal Combat, New Line Cinema;Mostly Martha, Paramount; Muchas Gracias Willy, Networx; Nowhere to Hide, Warner Bros.; One Man's Hero; Operation Condor, Miramax; Outrage (also known as Despara), Capella; RoboWarriors, Republic; Rounders, Miramax; Rumble in the Bronx,Miramax; Seven, Warner Bros.; Sex and Zen, Golden Harvest; Sinbad, Cannon; Singles; Smoke Screen, Warner Bros.; TheShooter, Miramax; The Siege, New Line Cinema; Twin Dragons, Miramax; Two Bits, Walt Disney; The Walking Dead, Savoy Pictures; and What Comes Around, Warner Bros.
Stage Appearances
Appeared as Way Rebar, American, Cast Theatre; as the husband, Day Games, Theatre East; and as Lincoln, An Evening with Lincoln,Moroney Theatre; also appeared in productions of Dracula, Richard II, and The Vow.
Major Tours
Appeared as multiple characters in a touring production of Why a Hero, U.S. cities.
RECORDINGS
Anime Videos
Voice of Rocky for English version, Kagaku ninja tai Gatchaman, 1994
(As Richard George) Voice of Mitsukake, Fishigi Yugi: Memories First OAV, Pioneer Entertainment, 1996
(As Richard George) Voice of Mitsukake, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play--Reflections OAV 2, Pioneer Entertainment, 1997
(As Richard George) Voice of Mitsukake, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play--Reflections OAV 3, Pioneer Entertainment, 1997
Voice of Otaki, Ah! My Goddess the Movie, Animaze; voice of Lord Abigail, Bastard!, Animaze; voice of Kei Munakata, eX-Driver, Bang Zoom!; voices of Hajime Fukuroda, Tohru Ohta, waiter, Director Shirosawa,movie set staff members, and shaman, GTO (also known as Great Teacher Onizuka), Studio E; (as Richard George) voice of Kelly, Gundam 0083; and voice of Guld Bowman, Macross Plus. Many of these videos were originally broadcast in Japan as television series.
Video Games
Voice, Wetlands, New World Computing, 1995
Voice, Stonekeep, Interplay, 1995
Voice, Might and Magic 7: For Blood and Honor, UBI Soft Entertainment, 1999
Voice, Jade Cocoon--The Tamamayu Legend, 1999
Voice, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia,3DO, 1999
Voices of Dr. Lem, Dr. Steiner, gangster, and maintenance man, Galerians, Crave Entertainment, 2000
Voice, Legends of Might and Magic, 3DO, 2001
Voice, Might and Magic IX, 3DO, 2002
(As Richard George) Voice, WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos, BlizzardEntertainment, 2002
Voices of Bad Mr. Frosty, Ice, Tiny, and Butch, Clayfighter 2: Judgement Clay; also voice performer for Aero Wings, Blackhawk Down, Novologic, Boogerman II, Breakdown, Dynasty Warrior 4, Inherit the Earth, Might and Magic 6, and Waterworld.
WRITINGS
Film Scripts
Author of film scripts and the English-language versions of film scripts,including Abyss of Freedom; Adrenaline, Networx; Amores Perros (also known as Love's a Bitch), Lions Gate Films; Amour propio; Belle Epoque, Columbia/TriStar; Bloody Trail, Networx;Christine, Atlas; Cinema Paradiso, English version, Miramax; Cobra II, Networx; The Combat, Alba Communications; CommanderHamilton, Miramax; Cradle Song, Networx; Crime Story, Antenna 3; Day of the Beast; Diary of a Rapist; Don Juan, Film-Star; East Meets West, Atlas; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; Emperor and Assassin, Trimark Pictures; Manta Manta, Atlas; El Mariachi, Film Export; Everybody's Fine; Felix--A Friend for Life, Networx; The Fencing Master, Capella; The Footman, Atlas;Hannah, Columbia; The Heist, Atlas; Iron Monkey, Miramax; Judge, Loved Murderer, Atlas; Kika; Medicopter 117, Networx; Mission Kashmir, Sony Pictures Classics; Murderous Twins, Networx; Nowhere to Hide, Antenna 3; Outrage (also known as Despara), Columbia; Post Mortem, Sony Pictures Classics; Remote Control, Pedro Almodovar; Roula, Atlas; Sherlock Holmes,Columbia; Shiri, Sony Pictures Classics; Singles, Networx; Snowball, Antenna 3; Soong Sisters; Street Racers, Rapi Films; Superwife; TKKG Detectives, Alba Communications; TripleCross, Elixir; Two Cops, Atlas; Venus Murders, Networx; The Voice of Murder, Networx; Widow of Saint Pierre, Sony PicturesClassics; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; and X-mas with Willy Woof II, Networx.
Television Series
Lead writer, Uchu no kishi tekkaman bureido (anime; also known asStarknight Tekkaman Blade and Teknoman), 1994
Transformers: Robots in Disguise (anime), Fox, multiple episodes,2001-2002
Television Episodes
"Ms. Loon's Big Adventure," Mon Colle Knights (anime), 2001
Also wrote episodes of Bully's World, Dodo, Journey--Heart of World, Swiss Family Robinson, Tequila and Bonetti, and Zoe and Charlie.
Television Writing
Other
Writer of The Clown, Felix, Jungle Hospital, TheLast Emperor, and Reyes and Rey (pilot), and various other television scripts.
Videos
Author of Tokyo Revolution.
Stage
Author of the play The Vow.

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

Epcar's appearance in an episode of Amazing Stories was collectedon the video Amazing Stories: Book Four, MCA/Universal Home Video, 1992.

OTHER SOURCES

Electronic

Angelfire, http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/digipedia, February 12,2003
Richard Epcar, http://www.richardepcar.com, February 13, 2003

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