Jay Hickman (actor)

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as Mechazawa
"Elfen Lied"
as Kurama
"Excel Saga"
as Tooru Watanabe
"Kaleido Star"
as The Fool
"Le Chevalier D'Eon"
as King Louis XV
"Princess Tutu"
as Mythos
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Jay Hickman is an American actor, singer and voice actor. He is best known for his prolific voice work on English language dubs of foreign films and television series. Most of these works are in anime that ADV Films has licensed, but he has also voiced numerous Korean and Japanese action and horror films, such as the original "Dark Water", released in 2002.Among anime devotees, Hickman has won recent acclaim as Shinichi Mechazawa, the identity-critical robot in "Cromartie High School" and the emotionally challenged Prince Mytho from the series "Princess Tutu".

Career

Hickman lent his voice to the character of Mark in the 2002 Canadian film "Touching Wild Horses", starring Jane Seymour.

Hickman has also a number of on-screen appearances, including an uncredited bit part in the 1998 film "Rushmore" opposite television and movie actress Alexis Bledel.

Hickman is also a singer with a background in musical theatre. Past roles include Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls", El Gallo in "The Fantasticks" and Danny Zuko in "Grease". Hickman was later able to join the cast of Fred Waring's U.S. Chorus, the summer workshop and televised special's final season in 1991.

Shortly after this experience, Hickman landed a job as a professional Elvis impersonator – a role that he continued through one season at a Houston theatre. This was followed by a short stint with the Houston pop band Bee Stung Lips, with whom Hickman sang back-up vocals and worked in promotions.

The latter half of the ‘90s saw Hickman taking part in a musical theatre collaboration with award-winning Broadway producer Stuart Ostrow, famed composer Jerry Bock and librettist Jerry Sterner. Hickman played the supporting role of “Mark” in "1040", a musical about the U.S. tax code which saw its world premiere in Houston in 1997. The show was back-burnered shortly afterward, though, when “creative differences” caused a rift among the Ostrow-Bock-Sterner team.

In 1998, Hickman began a career as a professional jazz singer, serving as the frontman for a number of Houston-based swing bands. Hickman worked full-time in this capacity for three years, and has continued to perform in the genre, part-time, through the present day. A solo album is alleged to be in the worksFact|date=March 2007.

Voice acting roles

*AD Police (TV) as Narration; Punk; Worker B
*Air as Ryuya
*Air Gear as Spitfire
*Angelic Layer (TV) as Shuji Inada
*Aquarian Age - Sign for Evolution (TV) as Ryusei
*Aura Battler Dunbine (TV) as Sho Zama
* (TV) as Chief Operator; Fox; Maintenance Worker; Skyhook Boomer
*Chrono Crusade (TV) as Genai
*Conduct Zero (film) as Rumor Mill #4
*Cromartie High School (TV) as Shinichi Mechazawa
*Dark Water (film) as Kishida (Yoshimi's lawyer)
*Diamond Daydreams (TV) as Minoru Jinguji
*Dirty Pair: Affair of Nolandia (OVA) as Pilot
*Divergence Eve (TV) as Bernard Firestar
*E's Otherwise (TV) as Eiji Sagimiya
*Elfen Lied (TV) as Kurama
*Excel Saga (TV) as Toru Watanabe
*Full Metal Panic! (TV) as Captain Sailor (ep 18, 21, 22); Hiroshi Kasuya (ep 21);
*Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (TV) as Onodera
* (film) as Colonel Watarase
*Gantz (TV) as Inamori
*Gasaraki (TV) as Akihiro Hirokawa
*Generator Gawl (TV) as Koji
*Gravion (TV) as Alex; Ohtori
*Gravion Zwei (TV) as Alex Smith; Otori
*Kaleido Star (TV) as The Fool
* (OVA) as The Fool
*Kekko Kamen (OVA) as Shuwarutsu Negataro
*Kino's Journey (TV) as Soldier A (ep 3); The Lonely Man (ep 1)
*Madlax (TV) as SSS/Three-Speed
*Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (TV) as Tetsu Asahina
*Martian Successor Nadesico (TV) as Nagare Akatsuki
*Master of Mosquiton (OVA) as Com. Officer B (ep 1); Soldier C (ep 1);
*Megazone 23 Part III (OVA) as Eiji
*Mezzo DSA (TV) as Leon
*Misaki Chronicles (TV) as Bernard
*My Beautiful Girl, Mari (film) as Nam-Woo (Adult)
* (film) as Nagare Akatsuki
*Neo Ranga (TV) as Kazuo Fujiwara
*Noir (TV) as Vanel
*Orphen (TV) as Sentry; Student; Tim
*Parasite Dolls as Police Dispatch A, Eve's Client A
*Princess Nine (TV) as Choir Leader; Kisaragi Boys Teammate; Reporter B; Sakurai
*Princess Tutu (TV) as Mythos
*RahXephon (TV) as Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi
* (film) as Dr. Itsuki Kisaragi
*Rune Soldier (TV) as William Wilder
*Saint Seiya (TV) as Dragon Shiryu
*Saiyuki (TV) as Shuei/Rikudo (eps 6-7)
*Shadow Skill (TV) as Kain Phalanx (G)
*Sorcerer on the Rocks (OVA) as Shibas Scotch
*Spectral Force (OVA) as Zakiphon
*Spriggan (film) as Soldier
*Steel Angel Kurumi 2 (TV) as Yutaka Kizuki
*Street Fighter II V (TV) as Nash
*Super GALS (TV) as Clerk (ep 24); Convenience Store Manager (ep 25); Foreman (ep 24)
*Those Who Hunt Elves 2 (TV) as The Judge
*Touching Wild Horses (Movie) as Adult Mark
*Ushio & Tora (OVA) as Gamin Son (eps 5-6); Tsubura
*Wandaba Style (TV) as Ichirin
*Yugo the Negotiator (TV) as Reiichi Kogure

creen roles

*"Apollo 11" (1996) as MIT #1
*"Rushmore" (1998) (uncredited) Extra (Cameo)

Videogame roles

Unlimited Saga as Musol Yanii, Francis, Narrator, Kalandorn

Trivia

*Hickman is credited with co-writing and performing the end credits theme song of the movie "Cybermutt" (2002).
*Hickman is known in voice acting circles for his talent as a mimic, boasting more than a dozen international dialects and close to 50 celebrity impersonations.
*He is not to be confused with the late truck stop comedian of the same name.

External links

* [http://www.jayhickman.net/ The official Jay Hickman website]
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* [http://www.crystalacids.com/database/person/1927/jay-hickman/ Jay Hickman] at the English Voice Actor & Production Staff Database
* [http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000378/ Interview with Jay Hickman] and the leads of Generator Gawl
* [http://www.dubreview.com/jayhickmanintrv.php/ "Dub Review" interviews Jay Hickman]
* [http://www.otakureview.net/jay0119.html/ Interview: Jay Hickman] (Otaku Review.com)