Kirk Thornton

Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese anime shows. His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave, Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi, Jin in Samurai Champloo, Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin, Jet Link in Cyborg 009, Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Number VII Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.[6]

Kirk Thornton
Other names	Ron Allen[1][2] Sparky Thornton[3] Spanky Roberts Sean Thornton Donald Lee
Alma mater	University of Washington[4]
Occupation	Voice actor, ADR director, script writer
Years active	1972–present
Agent	CESD
Spouse(s)	Julie Nesbitt[5]
Children	2[4]
Website	kirkthornton.com

Filmography

Anime

List of English dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][7]
1991	Zillion: Burning Night	Big Odama
1992	Fight! Iczer-One	Teacher		As Sparky Thornton
1993	Doomed Megalopolis	Doctor
1993	The Cockpit	Ensign Nogami
1995	Crimson Wolf	Professor Shagdol
1997	Street Fighter II V	Guile			[8]
1997	Super Pig	Milton Massen			[8]
1997	Black Jack	Black Jack
1998	Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory	Anavel Gato		As Sparky Thornton	[8]
1998	Fushigi Yūgi	Hotohori		As Sparky Thornton
1999–2001	Digimon series	Gabumon, Mummymon, others
1999	Perfect Blue	Yamashiro		As Sparky Thornton, grouped under Voice Cast	[9]
1999	Cowboy Bebop	Steve, Asimov Solensan
2000	The Castle of Cagliostro	Count Lazare do Cagliostro		As Sparky Thornton. In the 1992 English dub of the film, he voiced Gendarme Captain Gustav and the Archbishop.
2001	Rurouni Kenshin	Hajime Saito		As Sparky Thornton	[3]
2001	Transformers: Robots in Disguise	Dr. Onishi
2002	Love Hina	Seta Noriyasu		As Ronald Allen	[10]
2002	Digimon Frontier	Tsunomon, Gabumon, Karatenmon			[11]
2002	Gundress		ADR director
2002	Cosmo Warrior Zero		ADR director
2003	s-CRY-ed		ADR director
2003	Heat Guy J	Ken Edmundo
2004	Duel Masters	Black Knight
2004	Wolf's Rain	Leara's father
2004	Gad Guard		ADR director
2004	Gungrave	Brandon Heat / Beyond the Grave		As Ron Allen	[1]
2004	Tsukihime		ADR director
2004	Mobile Suit Gundam F91	Sam Ehrug
2004	Sky Blue	Cade			[8]
2005	Otogi Zoshi		ADR director
2005–06	Samurai Champloo	Jin		Grouped under English Voice Cast
2005	Planetes	Hachirota
2005–09	Naruto	Kisame Hoshigaki, Tazuna, others	ADR director (episodic)
2005	Mars Daybreak		ADR director
2005	IGPX	Mark		TV series
2005	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG	Kuze
2006	Eureka Seven	Matthieu			[8]
2006	Kannazuki no Miko	Kazuki Ōgami	Voice Director	[12]
2006–13	Bleach	Narrator, others	ADR director, ADR script		[13]
2006	Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo	Don Patch
2006	Fate/stay night	Kiritsugu Emiya			[14]
2007	Digimon Data Squad	Homer Yushima			[11]
2007	Afro Samurai	Various
2008	Blue Dragon	Minotaur	ADR director (episodic)
2008	Code Geass	Kaname Ohgi
2008	Strait Jacket	George Thomson			[15]
2009	Monster	The Baby, others
2009–18	Naruto: Shippuden	Kisame Hoshigaki, others
2009–13	Stitch!	Hämsterviel, Suzuki, others			[16]
2012	Persona 4: The Animation	Kinshiro Morooka			[8]
2012–13	Blue Exorcist	Shiro Fujimoto, Satan			[17]
2013	B-Daman Crossfire	Goichiro Tsukinowa / Grizz Sukino			[8]
2013–present	Sword Art Online	Klein/Ryōtarō Tsuboi		3 TV seasons and a movie	[18]
2013–15	Digimon Fusion	Tactimon, AxeKnightmon, Leviamon, Kabukimon, others			[8]
2013–present	The Jungle Bunch	Maurice			[8]
2014	K	Daikaku Kokujoji			[19]
2014	Blood Lad		ADR director		[20]
2015	Coppelion	Mitsuo Kawabata			[21]
2015	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin	Ramba Ral			[22]
2015	Durarara!!×2		ADR director	Directed the first part called Shō with Patrick Seitz	[23][24][25]
2015	BlazBlue Alter Memory	Jubei			[8][26]
2015–16	Aldnoah.Zero	Saazbaum			[27]
2016	One-Punch Man	Snek, Sitch, Fukegao, and Frog-Man			[28]
2016	March Comes in Like a Lion	Kai Shimada			[29]
2017	Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga	Shiro Fujimoto, Ukemochi (ep9)
2017	Hunter x Hunter	Dalzollene		2011 series	[30]
2017	Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day	Atsushi Yadomi			[31]
2018–present	Baki	Yujiro		Netflix ONA	[8]
2018	The Seven Deadly Sins	Galand		Netflix dub
2019–present	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	Hand Demon, Tanjuro Kamado			[32][33]
2020	Marvel Future Avengers	Arnim Zola, Scragg, Councilman Reiner, Narrator			[34]
2020	Drifting Dragons	Ura		Netflix dub
2020	Dorohedoro	Narrator		Netflix dub
2020	Great Pretender	Seiji Ozaki		Netflix dub
2020	The Idhun Chronicles	Ashran		Netflix dub

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][7]
2007	Edgar and Ellen	Mayor
2009	Huntik: Secrets & Seekers	DeFoe			[35]
2009	Superman: Red Son	Jimmy Olsen, Batman, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, Pyotr Roslov		Web series	Tweet[8]
2009	Spectrobes	Commander Grant		Web series
2012	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Adam Warlock		Episode: "Michael Korvac"	[8]
2012	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	King Sanjay Rash, others		Eps. "Front Runner"; "The Soft War"; "Tipping Point"	[36][37]
2012 – 2014	Monsuno	Beyal
2013	Mad	Matt Hooper, Spock		Ep. "Jaws the Great and Powerful/Old Spock's Off Their Spockers"	[8]
2014	Clarence	Buckey O'Neil			[8]
2014–17	Sonic Boom	Orbot, Shadow the Hedgehog, others			[38][39][6]
2019	Love, Death & Robots	Old Man		Ep. "Fish Night"
2019-Present	Pucca: Love Recipe	Uncle Dumpling, Bruce

Films

List of voice and English dubbing performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][7]
2000	Digimon: The Movie	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon and Omnimon (Shared)		English dub	[8]
2004	What the Bleep Do We Know!?	Voice Over Talent			[40]
2016–2018	Digimon Adventure tri.	Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon (shared), Tsunomon		English dub	[41]
2016	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	Newscaster		English dub	[8]
2020	Ni no Kuni	Teacher		English dub
2020	Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna	Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, Tsunomon, Omnimon (Shared), Gabumon (Bond of Friendship)		English dub	[42]

List of voice and English dubbing performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][7]
1991	Fist of the North Star: The Movie	Head Banger		English dub
1994	Dirty Pair: Project Eden	Boss
1995	Ninja Scroll	Hanza, Utsutsu		As Spanky Roberts; English dub
1995	Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie	Guile		As Donald Lee; English dub	[8]
1998	Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie	Hiei		As Sean Thornton; English dub	[8]
1999	Black Jack: The Movie	Black Jack		As Sean Thornton; English dub
1999	Perfect Blue	Yamashiro		As Sparky Thornton
2001	Akira	Various		As Sparky Thornton, Animaze/Pioneer dub
2008	Resident Evil: Degeneration	President		English dub
2009	Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple	Munk			[8][13]
2013	Tiger & Bunny the Movie: The Rising	Muramasa Kaburagi		English dub	[43]
2013	The Snow Queen	Housemaster		English dub	[8]
2014	The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale	Jojo			[8]
2015	The Nutcracker Sweet	Drosselmeyer, Commander, Mice		Peruvian film	[8]
2017	The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover	Antonio, Mechanic			[8]
2017	The Jungle Bunch	Maurice		English dub	[8]
2017	The Son of Bigfoot	Japanese Man #1 (a.k.a. Asian Investor #1)		Belgian-French film

List of motion capture performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2012	Resident Evil: Damnation	Ivan Judanovich / Ataman		[44]

Live-action dubbing

List of English dubbing performances in live-action series

Year	Title	Country	Dubbed from	Role	Original actor	Source[2]
2016	Marseille	France	French	Farid	Hedi Bouchenafa	[45]

Video games

List of voice and English dubbing performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][7]
1998	Brave Fencer Musashi	Ed			[8]
1999	Rugrats: Studio Tour	Tour Guide, Security Guard, Pirate Director, Racetrack Announcer			[8]
2000	Silent Bomber	John Loss		as Sparky Thornton	[46]
2001	The Bouncer	Commander		as Sparky Thornton	[8]
2002	Digimon Rumble Arena	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon			[8]
2003	.hack//Infection	Orca			[8]
2003	Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma	Simon Algo, George Spelvin
2004	.hack//Quarantine	Orca			[8]
2004–14	Naruto games	Kisame Hoshigaki, Mifune, Foo, others		Starting with Ultimate Impact	[47][8]
2004	Scaler	Bootcamp
2004	World of Warcraft	Various
2005	Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard	Various voices
2005	JumpStart Reading	Trash Can, Trash Can't
2006	Kingdom Hearts II	Saïx		Also Final Mix	[8][48]
2006	Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked	Jin	Voice director
2006	Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII	Various
2006	Enchanted Arms		Voice director
2006	Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra	Capt. Matthews			[8]
2006	Company of Heroes	Various
2006	Baten Kaitos Origins	Shanath		English dub	[8]
2006–07	.hack//G.U. series	Negimaru, Antares, Azure Orca			[8]
2006	Tales of the Abyss	Jade Curtiss
2007	Rogue Galaxy	Cancer King, Various	Voice director
2007	Ghost Rider	Mephisto
2007	Spectrobes	Commander Grant
2007	Kane & Lynch: Dead Men	Various			[13]
2007–11	WWE Smackdown vs. Raw		Voice director	2008–12 versions	[16]
2007	Time Crisis 4		Voice director
2008	Race Driver: Grid	Pit Chief
2008	Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader		Voice director for Jeff Foxworthy
2008	Spider-Man: Web of Shadows	Various
2008	Call of Duty: World at War	Marine
2008	Endwar	Various
2008	Biohazard: Degeneration	President
2008	The Tale of Despereaux		Guest Director
2009	The Lord of the Rings: Conquest	Grim Wormtongue			[8]
2009	Hotel for Dogs		Voice director
2009	Monsters vs. Aliens	Various			[13]
2009	Red Faction: Guerrilla	MacReady	Additional Voice Over Direction	Voice roles grouped as "Also with"	[13][49]
2009	Dirt 2		Voice director
2009	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2	Electro, others			[13]
2009	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days	Saïx (No. VII)			[8]
2009	Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising	Saber	Additional Voice Direction, Casting Director		[50]
2009	Magna Carta 2	Nix			[8]
2009	Dragon Age: Origins	Various			[13]
2009	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Marine			[13]
2009	Silent Hill: Shattered Memories	Harry Mason			[13]
2010	Resonance of Fate	Juris		English dub	[8]
2010	Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep	Isa			[8]
2010–present	Sonic the Hedgehog games	Shadow the Hedgehog, Orbot, others	Main role	Grouped under English character voices	[39][51][52][53]
2010	Hot Wheels Racing Circuit	Ace Turner			[13]
2011	DC Universe Online	Superman, Calculator			[13]
2011	Catherine	Boss			[8]
2012	Binary Domain	Yoji Amada, Mifune			[8]
2012	Battleship	Captain Willie Perozzi			[8]
2012	Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor	Winfield Powers			[54]
2012	Guild Wars 2	Various			[13]
2013	Fire Emblem: Awakening	Yen'fay		English dub	[8]
2013	Gears of War: Judgment	COG News Reporter, COG Announcer, Survivor Six			[55]
2013	Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix	Saïx (No. VII)			[8]
2014	Earth Defense Force 2025	Midnight Pilot, Ranger 3			[56]
2014	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix	Saïx "No. VII"			[8]
2015	Xenoblade Chronicles X	Maurice Chausson			[8]
2016	Persona 5	SIU Director, Igor
2016	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II	Bleublanc
2017	Friday the 13th: The Game	Mitch Floyd		Uncredited
2017	Horizon Zero Dawn	Hishavan
2019	Kingdom Hearts III	Saïx	Main role	English dub/ADR Director	[8]
2019	Judgment	Kaoru Ichinose		English dub
2020	Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise	The Mirror			[8]

Other voice work

• iLife 08 apps[13]

References

1. "Destroyer in the Dusk". Gungrave. Episode 1 – via Funimation, YouTube.
2. "Original Animation". kirkthornton.com. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
3. "Prelude to the Impending Fight: The Shadow of the Wolf Draws Near". Rurouni Kenshin. Episode 28.
4. "Kumoricon » Guests of Honor". kumoricon.org. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
5. "Kirk Thornton". Ryu-Kon Group. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
6. http://animecons.com/guests/bio.shtml/1750/Kirk_Thornton
7. "Directing Resume". kirkthornton.com. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
8. "Behind The Voice Actors - Kirk Thornton". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved March 1, 2016. Check mark indicates role has been confirmed using screenshots of closing credits and other reliable sources
9. A Perfect Blue Day (DVD). Manga Entertainment. 2000.
10. Love Hina, Volume 5 - Summer By The Sea. Bandai (DVD). 2002. ISBN 9781594097201. - select Extras, Credits, page to "Featuring the Voices Of"
11. "Kirk Thornton". CrystalAcids.com. March 19, 2019. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
12. "Secret Love Shell". Destiny of the Shrine Maiden. Episode 3. Event occurs at Closing credits, English adaptation, English Voice Cast.
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14. "Fate/stay night". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
15. Strait Jacket (DVD). Manga Video. October 7, 2008. OCLC 244206876.
16. "Kirk Thornton Interview - Moar Powah!". Moar Powah!. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
17. "Aniplex's Blue Exorcist TV Series to Debut on TOONAMI™ On February 22nd". Anime News Network. February 10, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
18. AfterBuzz TV (August 10, 2014). Sword Art Online After Show w/ Kirk Thornton Season 1 Episodes 15 & 16 (YouTube).
19. "'K' Anime's English Dub Previewed in Video Before July 12 Debut". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
20. "Viz Media Announces Blood Lad's English Dub Cast". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
21. "Viz Media's Coppelion Dub Casts Erica Lindbeck, Cassandra Lee Morris, Shelby Lindley". Anime News Network. November 24, 2014.
22. "Gundam: The Origin Gets Simultaneous Global Paid Streaming & Blu-ray". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
23. "Durarara!!×2 English Dub Announcement Video Streamed". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
24. "Aniplex USA Details Fate/stay night: UBW, Durarara!!×2 Shō Release Details". Anime News Network. July 2, 2015.
25. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-02/aniplex-of-america-sets-english-dub-for-durarara-2-ten/.92445
26. Lee, Michelle (March 16, 2015). "BlazBlue Alter Memory Cast Announcement". Funimation.com. Retrieved March 16, 2015.
27. "Aniplex USA to Release 1st Aldnoah.Zero Season 1 On BD/DVD with Dub, Sub". Anime News Network. June 6, 2015.
28. "One-Punch Man Is Coming to Toonami!". Viz Media. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
29. "March comes in like a lion Anime Casts Marina Inoue, Takahiro Sakurai, More". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
30. "Wish × And × Promise". Hunter × Hunter. Episode 39. Viz Media. February 18, 2017. Event occurs at Closing credits. Adult Swim.
31. "Aniplex USA Dubs anohana Anime Series, Announces Cast (Updated)". Anime News Network. April 15, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017.
32. "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba". www.facebook.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019.
33. "Hinokami". Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Season 1. Episode 19. USA. 2020-03-07. Event occurs at Closing credits, English Language Cast. Adult Swim.
34. "Spider-Man to the Rescue". Marvel Future Avengers. Season 1. Episode 12. February 28, 2020. Event occurs at 22:15. Disney+. Credits
35. "A Seeker Is Born". Huntik. Season 1. Episode 1.
36. "Front Runner". Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Season 5. Episode 3. October 13, 2015. Cartoon Network.
37. "Tipping Points". Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Season 5. Episode 5. October 27, 2015. Cartoon Network.
38. "Late Fees". Sonic boom.
39. "Sonic Boom". sonicthehedgehog.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
40. What the Bleep Do We Know!? (DVD). 2004.
41. "Digimon Adventure tri. Films' English Dub Casts Vic Mignogna as Matt, Kirk Thornton as Gabumon". Anime News Network. August 3, 2016. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
42. "Shout! Factory Releases Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna Anime Film on BD/DVD in October". Anime News Network. July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
43. "Tiger & Bunny The Movie: The Rising 'New Driver' English Dub Clip Streamed". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
44. "キャスト｜バイオハザード ダムネーション". Biohazardcg2.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on May 4, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
45. Marseille (Netflix). 2016.
46. CyberConnect. Silent Bomber. Bandai. Scene: Ending credits, 18:51 in, English Voices.
47. Racjin. Naruto Shippuden: Legends: Akatsuki Rising. Namco Bandai Games. Scene: Closing credits, English voice cast.
48. Square Enix. Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix. Square Enix. Scene: Closing credits, 7:40 in, Voice Recording, Cast.
49. Volition. Red Faction: Guerrilla. THQ. Scene: Closing credits, 3:30 in, Voice over, Voice over production.
50. Codemasters. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Codemasters. Scene: Closing credits, Speech & Dialogue.
51. Big Red Button. Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Sega. Scene: Closing credits, 2:15 in, English Voice Actors.
52. Sonic Team. Sonic Free Riders. Sega. Scene: Closing credits, 1 minute in, English Character Voices.
53. Sonic Team. Sonic Lost World. Sega. Scene: Closing credits, 1:09 in, English Character Voices.
54. From Software. Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor. Capcom. Scene: Closing credits, 2:20 in, Voice Actors.
55. "Gears of War: Judgment Credits". Microsoft Game Studios. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
56. Sandlot (February 18, 2014). Earth Defense Force 2025. D3 Publisher. Scene: Closing credits, 2:45 in, Voice Cast.

External links

• Official website
• Kirk Thornton at IMDb
• Kirk Thornton at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kirk Thornton convention appearances on AnimeCons.com