James Arnold Taylor

James Arnold Taylor (born July 22, 1969, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American voice actor and the current voice provider for Fred Flintstone and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars Clone Wars series.

Career

Notable roles

He provides the English voice work in Squaresoft's popular video game, Final Fantasy X, as the voice of Tidus. He is also known as the voice of Ratchet in the popular Ratchet & Clank video game series from Insomniac Games, (except for the original game, in which Ratchet was voiced by Mikey Kelley); as well as Leonardo from TMNT. Taylor's other large roles include the role of Wooldoor Sockbat on the Comedy Central animated series Drawn Together, voice acting for both Captain Jack Sparrow and Timon in Kingdom Hearts II, and providing the voices for many characters in The Animatrix. He reprises his role as Tidus in the action/fighting game Dissidia: Final Fantasy. He also starred in the 2004 mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie, his only live action role to date. He played the role of the Agori Berix in the recent direct-to-DVD film, BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn.

Star Wars

James Arnold Taylor is very notable for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars: Clone Wars series as the voice double for Ewan McGregor, as well as the video game adaptation of the series. Prior to this, he was the voice of Obi-Wan in the video game adaption of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and in Star Wars Battlefront II.

Fred Flintstone

Also, he is the current voice of Fred Flintstone in commercials featuring the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character (i.e., Midas car care; Cocoa Pebbles cereal, etc.). He also voiced Fred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Drawn Together.

Marvel Comics

He also is the voice of Iceman in Marvel and Activision's games, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance; the voice of Quentin Beck/Mysterio in the video game version of Spider-Man 2; and the voice of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Battle for New York and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.

DC Comics

James is voice-acting as Green Arrow in the new Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon, on Cartoon Network. He also voice-acted as Guy Gardner.

As a voice double

Taylor has also worked as a voice double for actors such as David Spade, Johnny Depp, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor, and Christopher Walken.

Mediagraphy

• A.T.O.M. as Axel and Sebastian Manning, and Tilian
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Iceman)
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Green Arrow, Guy Gardner, Wotan
• Lego Batman: The Video Game - vocal effects for Robin
• 24: The Game
• Final Fantasy X as Tidus
• Final Fantasy X-2 as Tidus and Shuyin
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy as Tidus
• Star Wars: Clone Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2002 video game) as Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Shrek 2
• The Powerpuff Girls
• Johnny Test as Jonathan "Johnny" Test, Dark Vegan
• Disney's Atlantis: Milo's Return.
• Animatrix
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando as Ratchet
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal as Ratchet
• Ratchet: Deadlocked as Ratchet
• Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters as Ratchet
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction as Ratchet
• Secret Agent Clank as Ratchet
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty as Ratchet
• Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time as Ratchet
• Jak X: Combat Racing as Ratchet
• Hot Shots Golf Fore as Ratchet
• Hot Shots Tennis as Kent
• Tales of Symphonia as Lord Yggdrasill, Gnome
• Danny Phantom
• Drawn Together as Wooldoor Sockbat and Mr. Jew Producer
• Codename: Kids Next Door: The Movie
• Invader Zim
• My Life as a Teenage Robot
• Crash Nebula
• The New Woody Woodpecker Show
• The Boondocks
• Ultimate Spider-Man as Electro
• Kingdom Hearts II (as Captain Jack Sparrow and Timon)
• Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (as Gabe Logan)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (as Muzu)
• Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
• Legion of Super Heroes (Mekt Ranzz, Porcupine Pete, Color Kid)
• Spider-Man 2 (video game) as Quentin Beck/Mysterio
• TMNT (as Leonardo) (http://www.jamesarnoldtaylor.com)
• Superman: Doomsday as the Mayor of Metropolis
• Shrek Super Slam as Humpty Dumpty & Prince Charming
• Static Shock (as Eddie Felson/Speedwarp)
• Spider-Man: Battle for New York as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
• Spider-Man: Friend or Foe as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
• The Spectacular Spider-Man as Harry Osborn, and Frederick Foswell
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film) as Obi-Wan Kenobi, various voices
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Plo Koon,
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen the Videogame as The Fallen
• BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn as Berix and Vastus

External links

• James Arnold Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• The Official Homepage of James Arnold Taylor
• The Oregon Herald - Interview with James Arnold Taylor (Leonardo)- TMNT
• Profile at the Anime News Network
• Interview w/ James about Batman: Brave & the Bold (Legions of Gotham)