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D.C. Douglas 
Born February 2, 1966
Berkeley, California, U.S.Occupation Actor, Voice Actor Years active 1978–present Website http://www.dcdouglas.com D.C. Douglas (born February 2, 1966) is an American character actor, voice actor, and director now living in Los Angeles. Douglas was born in Berkeley, California.[1] His father was a salesman,[1] and his mother was an artist and writer.[1][2] His grandparents were vaudeville performers.[1] His grandmother, Grace Hathaway,[3] continued in burlesque as a dancer and his grandfather, Joe Miller,[4] became known in San Francisco for his talks at the Theosophy Lodge and his weekly walks through Golden Gate Park.[5]
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Theatre, film and television
Douglas performed on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late '70's and early '80's, moving to Los Angeles in 1985 to study at the Estelle Harman Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, he co-founded the improvisation troupe Section Eight, and was a member of Theatre of NOTE.
In 1996, he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot. When the show was picked up for a season he returned in ten additional episodes as the character D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress's character.
That same year, Douglas wrote, produced and starred in Falling Words, his first festival film short. In subsequent years he wrote, produced and directed The Eighth Plane, an anti-Scientology gangster film short and Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree, about cousin marriage and Lewis Henry Morgan.
In 2005, Douglas's film short, Duck, Duck, Goose!, played film festivals worldwide and received awards for the Best Short from the Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) and Best Actor from the Trenton Film Festival.
His 2009 CGI film short, The Crooked Eye starring Fay Masterson and narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt, played festivals around the world and won awards for Best Narration (Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF)), Best Screenplay (HDFest - New York) and Best Animated Short (Red Rock Film Festival)[6]
Film credits include Black Ops with Lance Henriksen and Universal Remote: The Movie with Charles Q. Murphy; Hallmark Channel TV movie Final Approach with Dean Cain; and the Lindsay Lohan "comeback" film Labor Pains on the ABC Family channel.
Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace among others. He most recently appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds, Nickelodeon's Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures and FOX's Raising Hope.
Voice over
D.C. Douglas' voice over career encompasses video games, television and radio commercials, film and voice-matching celebrities like Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey. He was part of the first wave of "internet age" voice over artists at the beginning of the 21st century who built and worked from home studios.
Voice over credits include The Master in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Raven in Tekken 6, AWACS Ghost Eye in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Commandant Alexei in Tales of Vesperia, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, Grimoire Noir in Nier, as well as several national campaigns (including the GEICO Celebrity campaign from 2006–2008, the McDonald's Be The Sizzle campaign from 2009–2010, and Radio Shack's Holiday Hero campaign in 2010).
In addition to his commercial and video game voice over work, he also does many voice overs for the non-profit progressive research and information center Media Matters for America.[7]
Politics
D.C. Douglas in Tea Party PSA
In April, 2010, Douglas came under fire from the Tea Party movement for a phone call he made to Freedomworks in which he left an inflammatory voice mail. A day later GEICO dropped him from the new "shocking news" series of internet commercials that were in post-production.[8] This led to some debate in the voice over community about whether announcers were public figures.[9] Douglas responded by producing a mock Tea Party PSA for YouTube that was subsequently broadcast on Joy Behar's HLN show with Douglas as a guest.[10]
The experience spurred Douglas to continue creating short political videos, the majority of which are satirical. Most viewed were his Burn A Koran Day video (posted by The Huffington Post[11]) and his Why #OccupyWallStreet? video (aired on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell[12] and posted on the MoveOn.org[13] and Daily Kos[14] websites).
In November, 2011, D.C. Douglas tweeted out a quote from a Tower Heist Q & A at the ArcLight Hollywood where Brett Ratner made a disparaging remark about homosexuals. The Hollywood Reporter subsequently reported Douglas' tweet as the beginning of a controversy which led to Ratner stepping down from the 2012 Oscars. [15]
Television highlights
- Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures
- Criminal Minds
- Pushing Twilight
- Without A Trace
- 24
- ER
- JAG
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- What About Brian?
- The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
- Strong Medicine
- Las Vegas
- Beverly Hills, 90210
- Boston Common
- That 80's Show
- Mister Sterling
- Charmed
- Silk Stalkings
- Renegade
- Diagnosis: Murder
- Melrose Place
- Coach
- Days of our Lives
- The Bold and the Beautiful
- General Hospital
- Civil Wars
- Al TV
Anime highlight
- Fighting Spirit - Aiko's brother
Video game highlights
- Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds - Albert Wesker
- Star Wars: The Old Republic - Various
- Nier - Grimoire Noir
- .hack//G.U. vol.1//Rebirth - Gabi, Taihaku (2006)
- .hack//G.U. vol.2//Reminisce - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
- .hack//G.U. vol.3//Redemption - Gabi, Taihaku (2007)
- Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - AWACS Ghost Eye (uncredited)
- Eternal Sonata - Jazz
- Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Dominic 'Vulture' Zubov (voice segments only) (uncredited)
- Dragon Age: Origins - Justice (PRC) (2010)
- Eternal Sonata - Jazz (2007)
- Mass Effect 2 - Legion (2010)
- Mass Effect 3 - Legion (2012)
- Resident Evil 5 - Albert Wesker
- Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles - Albert Wesker (uncredited)
- Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles - Albert Wesker
- Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D - Albert Wesker
- Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
- Tales of the Abyss - Emperor Peony (uncredited)
- Tales of Vesperia - Alexei (uncredited)
- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology - Kelvin Garr
- Caesar IV - Various
- Armored Core: For Answer - Additional Voices
- Tekken 6 - Raven (uncredited)
- Tekken 5 - Additional Voices (uncredited)
- Radiata Stories - Additional Voices
- Soulcalibur IV - Custom Voice (uncredited)
- Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars - Avatar/Malacay/additional voices
- SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix - Various
- SpellForce: The Breath of Winter - Uzakhan, Shamziro, Bario, Blind Monk, Desperate Soul
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - Suou Uzuki, Voyager
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Master
- The Granstream Saga - Additional Voices (uncredited)
Further reading
- Power, Richard. The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller, 1993. ISBN 0-9618916-8-8.
References
- ^ a b c d "Biography". D.C. Douglas. http://www.dcdouglas.net. Retrieved December 19, 2010.
- ^ "Additional links". The Lotus Path. http://www.thelotuspath.org/lotus_links.html. Retrieved December 16, 2010.
- ^ Grace Hathaway
- ^ Joe and Guin Miller Archives for the Theosophical Society-San Francisco Lodge
- ^ "The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller". Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20060908092342/http://www.ruhaniat.org/lineage/JoeBio.php. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ Hit-The-Fan Productions
- ^ http://www.dcdouglas.org/year-review-voiceover-dc-douglas/
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/dc-douglas-freedomworks-geico_n_578257.html
- ^ http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/04/27/geico-announcer-loses-job-by-voicing-opinion/
- ^ "CNN.com". CNN. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/18/joy.01.html.
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/burn-a-quran-day-commerci_n_711715.html
- ^ http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/11/8278347-warren-talks-financial-panic-cycle
- ^ http://front.moveon.org/this-powerful-clip-is-exactly-why-we-support-occupywallstreet/
- ^ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/09/1024636/-UPDATE:-OWS:-Take-this-video-VIRAL,-NOW!
- ^ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brett-ratner-tweet-oscar-controversy-259473
External links
Categories:- 1966 births
- American film actors
- American film directors
- American television actors
- American voice actors
- Living people
- People from Berkeley, California
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