Kevin Michael Richardson

Kevin Michael Richardson
Richardson at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego.
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice artist
Years active	1991–present
Spouse	Monica Richardson (2006-present)
Website	http://www.kevinmichaelrichardson.com

Kevin Michael Richardson (born October 25, 1964) is an American actor and voice artist who currently stars in The Cleveland Show. He is also well known for being the voice of Tartarus in the video game Halo 2.

Early life

A classically-trained actor and a native of the Bronx, New York, Richardson first gained recognition as one of only eight U.S. high school students selected for the National Foundation for the Arts' "Arts '82" program. As a result of this he earned a scholarship to Syracuse University and a spot on a PBS special directed by the esteemed late John Houseman.

Career

Richardson has usually portrayed villainous characters due to his deep voice.

His credits include Captain Gantu from Lilo & Stitch, Shnitzel from Chowder, Goro in Mortal Kombat, the second voice of Skulker on Danny Phantom, Sarevok in the Baldur's Gate series, Jolee Bindo in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Crunch Bandicoot in two of the Crash Bandicoot games, Tartarus from Halo 2, The Joker in The Batman, Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, Antauri in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Openly Gator from Queer Duck, Barney Rubble from modern-day animated series and movies based upon The Flintstones, Maurice the Aye-Aye from The Penguins of Madagascar, and the voice of Exile in the late '90s cartoon Road Rovers. For The Spectacular Spider-Man he replaced Keith David as the voice of Tombstone.

In 2008 he was given the chance to voice a hero when he was cast as Bishop for Wolverine and the X-Men.

He often plays characters based on and satirizing comedian Bill Cosby, such as on Family Guy (with the voice of Jerome in the 7th episode of the 8th season) and The Boondocks. He also voices Cleveland Brown, Jr. and Lester Krinklesac in The Cleveland Show.

Personal life

Richardson married his wife, Monica in May 2006. Currently he and Monica, live in Los Angeles with her two sons from a previous marriage, Anthony and Michael.

Filmography and TV roles

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1991	Felix the Cat: The Movie	Additional voices	voice
1995	Mortal Kombat	Goro
1996	Spy Hard	"Michael Winslow" Security Guard	uncredited
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Captain Gantu	voice
2003	The Matrix Revolutions	Deus Ex Machina
2006	Clerks II	Police Officer
2007	TMNT	General Aguila	voice
2008	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Jabba the Hutt
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen	Prime #2, Rampage & Hatchlings (vocals)
Television Films
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Flintstones: On the Rocks	Barney Rubble	voice
2002	The Powerpuff Girls Movie	Ojo Tango / Rocko Socko				2003	Yu-Gi-Oh! (second series anime)	Beast Of Gilfer	(voice)			2005	The Happy Elf	Derek, Tucker, Mayor & Toady
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide	Morgan Freeman
2006	Casper's Scare School	Kibosh
	Class of 3000: The Devil and Lil'D	Big D/The Devil
2010	In Security	?
	Firebreather	Belloc	voice
Straight-to-DVD
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue	Brutus	voice
1998	Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald	Grimace / King Gonga
2000	Tom Sawyer	Injurin' Joe
2001	Recess: School's Out	Cop #2
2003	The Animatrix	Thadeus / Agent #2 / Cop
2007	Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme	Baron Mordo
2008	Batman: Gotham Knight	Lucius Fox
	The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning	Ray-Ray and Cheeks
	Dead Space: Downfall	Samuel Irons, Pendleton & Miner
2009	Open Season 2	Roberto the Dog (sub voice) / Roger the Cat (sub voice)
	Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic	King Minos
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989–present	The Simpsons	Security guard & additional voices	voice
1991	Rugrats	Additional Voices
1995–1997	The Mask: The Animated Series	Mayor Mortimer Tilton
1996–1997	Homeboys in Outer Space	Vashti
	Road Rovers	Exile (the Siberian Husky)	voice
1996–2000	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Plato
1998–2000	Voltron: The Third Dimension	Hunk / Zarkon
1999–2001	The PJs	Poppa Hudson / Rasta Man
1999–2001	The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Garth
2000–2001	Cardcaptors	Clow card announcer
2000–2002	Clerks: The Animated Series	Various characters
	Max Steel	Dog / Various Characters
2000–2004	Static Shock	Robert Hawkins/Kangor
2001–2002;2006	Invader Zim	Various characters
2001–2003	The Mummy: The Animated Series	The Minotaur
2001–2005	The Proud Family	Omar, Dr. Payne & additional voices
2001–2007;2008–present	The Fairly OddParents	AJ's Dad, Dark Laser & Various
2002–2008	Codename: Kids Next Door	Cheese Ninja, Cheese Shogun Roguefort, Dr. Lincoln, Ice Cream Beast, Ice Cream Men & Teen Ninjas
2003–2006	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Captain Gantu
	Teen Titans	Mammoth, See-More, Trigon, River Guardian
2003–2008	All Grown Up!	Various
2004–2005	Dave the Barbarian	Uncle Oswidge / King Throktar
	Megas XLR	Glorft Commander / Tiny / Georgie
2004–2006	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Antauri & Morlath
2004–2007	Danny Phantom	Dragon Ghost, Skulker
2004–2008	Higglytown Heroes	Uncle Lemmo
	The Batman	Joker / Jack Napier
2005	Danger Rangers	Burble
2005–2006	The Buzz on Maggie	Melvin Stinkleton, Mrs. Cartflight, Uncle Zeb & Germy
2005–2007	Loonatics Unleashed	Slam Tasmanian / Tech E. Coyote
2005–present	The Boondocks	Martin Luther King, Jr. & Additional Voices
	American Dad!	Tank Bates (2005–2010), Nelson Mandela & Principal Lewis
2006–2007	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	Admiral Bozzlebags (of Bozzlebags' Zip)
The Replacements	Additional Voices
2007	The Knights of Prosperity	Rockefeller Butts
2008	Transformers: Animated	Omega Supreme	voice
	The Cleaner	Darnell McDowell
2008–2009	Random! Cartoons	Announcer, Krunch, Alarm Clock, Rastamon, Prince Charming Dad, Zit, Applause Fish, Infinite Goliah, Mechanek, Hondo, and Ice Monster	Various voices
	Wolverine and the X-Men	Shadow King & Bishop	voice
	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Big Man/Tombstone, Principal Davis, Coach Smith
2008–2010	Ben 10: Alien Force	Highbreed Commander, Forever Knight & Ship (Giant Form)
	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	Cammie & Additional voices
2008–present	The Penguins of Madagascar	Maurice the Aye-Aye / Bing the Gorilla / Pinky the Flamingo / Additional voices
	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Black Manta, B'Wana Beast, Despero, General Steppenwolf, Monsieur Mallah
	The Mighty B!	Ronald the Postman & additional voices
2009–present	The Cleveland Show	Cleveland Brown, Jr. / Lester Krinklesac (Along with various others)
	The Super Hero Squad Show	Nick Fury / Scorpio
	Fanboy and Chum Chum	Berry the Ice Monster
2010	Black Panther	Wolverine & additional voices
2010–Present	Adventure Time	Donny
	Zevo-3	Brett Ronson
	Young Justice	Martian Manhunter
	Transformers: Prime	Bulkhead
	G.I. Joe: Renegades	Roadblock, Road Pig, additional voices
	Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness	Temutai
	T.U.F.F. Puppy	Big Ape
2011–present	Thundercats	Panthro
Television guest appearances
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The New Batman Adventures	Mutant Leader	voice
1998	The Powerpuff Girls	Boogie Man / Giant Fishballoon
1999	Family Guy	Various characters
2000	Disney's Recess	Vince's Father
2001	Disney's House of Mouse	Prince John & Crow
	The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy	Eldridge Johnson-Mayer
	Time Squad	Announcer, George S. Patton, George Washington, George Washington Carver, Lance 9,000,000,000,000, Time Squad Officer, Todd Washington Carver
2002	SpongeBob SquarePants	King Neptune
	¡Mucha Lucha!	Potato Patata, Jr.
	What's New Scooby Doo?	Bruce Wilkenson, Henry Hunsecker & Safari Member
2003	Xiaolin Showdown	Pandabubba
2004	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	Uncle Pockets, Omnizot & Foul Larry
2005	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Tyro, The Big Bad Hippo & Lion Turtle
2006	The Emperor's New School	Kavo
2008	Kid vs. Kat	Mr. Kat
	Back at the Barnyard	Don Bling / Santa Claus
2009	How I Met Your Mother	Stan "Stanley"
	Phineas and Ferb	P. P. Otter	voice
2010	Sym-Bionic Titan	Announcer / Soldier
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Jabba the Hutt
	Generator Rex	Enforcer / Knuckles
	Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Man-Ape, N'Gassi
Video Games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Baldur's Gate	Sarevok / Koveras / Narrator	Voice
2000	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen	Benjamin Sisko
2001	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty	Scott Dolph
2002	Ratchet & Clank	Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek, Bodyguard & Additional voices
	Kingdom Hearts	Sebastian
	Superman: Shadow of Apokolips	Darkseid
2003	Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex	Crunch Bandicoot
	Crash Nitro Kart
	Star Wars: KOTOR	Jolee Bindo
	Viewtiful Joe	Hulk Davidson / Fire Leo
	Soulcalibur II	Heihachi Mishima (English Version)
2004	Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel	player character Cyrus, NPCs Blake and Soldier, and the NPC enemies Ghoul High Priest and Mutant Grunt.
	Halo 2	Tartarus
2006	The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning	Terrador, Gaul & Conductor
	Kingdom Hearts II	Sebastian
2007	The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night	Terrador, Gaul & Sniff
2008	The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon	Terrador, Chief Prowlus and Hermit
	Emergency Heroes	General Walters
2010	Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep	Captain Gantu
2011	Mortal Kombat	Announcer

External links

• Official website
• Kevin Michael Richardson at IMDb