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Eric Kelso (born December 22) is an American voice acting, director, presenter and producer currently based in Tokyo, Japan.
He is best known as the voice of Paul Phoenix in the video game series, Tekken, as well as Guizhang Chen, Masayuki Fukuhara, and Ren of Heavens in the Shenmue series, Captain Falcon, and Blood Falcon in F-Zero GX, and Jacky Bryant in the Virtua Fighter series. Outside of video games, he has also provided voices for many Japanese TV shows, films, radio programs.
After graduating in 1986, he set out to travel the world in search of documentary film subjects. He eventually made his way to his current long-time residence of Japan.
He voiced the Japanese movie trailer for Disney's Mulan, as well as the part of River Guide in the Wild River Splash VR Simulator ride for DreamWorks at SEGA's Joypolis in Tokyo. In 2006, shortly after the merger of Tomy and Takara, Kelso provided the voice for the , which has been certified by Guinness World Records as "the world's smallest humanoid robot in production".
Kelso has been a director and producer for corporate video recordings for companies such as Prologis Inc. and Medtronic.
In 2000, Kelso provided voices for the English dub of the Sega Dreamcast game, Shenmue. Playing the roles of Masayuki Fukuhara and Guizhang Chen, Kelso noted how expansive the project was, having a more developed storyline and more dialogue than other games at the time. In 2001, Kelso became the voice for another fighting game character in Virtua Fighter 3 called Jacky Bryant. He also reprised the role in Virtua Fighter 5, as well as side projects featuring the character, such as, Sega Superstars, Virtua Quest, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate In 2002, Kelso also worked on the sequel to Shenmue, Shenmue II, voicing a new character in the franchise, Wuying Ren "of Heavens". The English dub of the game appeared in the re-released version on the Microsoft Xbox console as well as the high-definition ports for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
| Doraemon | unknown | Gakken English dub | ||
| 1993–1998 | Iron Chef | Masaharu Morimoto; Yoshiro Mori | Live-action English dub | |
| 2001 | Zoids: Century Neo | Additional voices | Alternate English dub; pilot | |
| 2015 | Air Bound | Ace, Owen, Buck Tooth | International English dub | |
| Sakura Quest | Mayor Naumann | Japanese dub (Ep. 25) | ||
| The Marginal Service | Character Naration |
| 2016 | Under the Dog | Soldier |
| 1996 | Virtua Fighter 3 | Jacky Bryant | ||
| 1997 | Soul Edge | English dub | ||
| 2000 | Slashout | Slash | ||
| Various | ||||
| Masayuki Fukuhara, Guizhang Chen | English dub | |||
| Jacky Bryant | ||||
| Paul Phoenix | Select voice samples re-used in 5 and 6 | |||
| Various | ||||
| Woody Woodpecker, Biff Tannen | ||||
| Wuying Ren | ||||
| Jacob Ranshaw | Motion capture | |||
| Captain Falcon, Blood Falcon | ||||
| Takashi Kagetani, Kazuya | English dub | |||
| Reiji Takigawa | English dub | |||
| Dean McGregor | Credited as Erick Kelso | |||
| Pilot, Boss | ||||
| Various | ||||
| Dainn, Kid, Coffin Shopkeeper, Ennio | English dub | |||
| Jacky Bryant | ||||
| Paul Phoenix | ||||
| Kalas | English dub | |||
| Additional voices | ||||
| Jacky Bryant | English dub | |||
| Klein | English dub | |||
| Paul Phoenix | ||||
| 2006 | Jacky Bryant | |||
| Ed (Dad) | English dub | |||
| Various | ||||
| Duke Dumas, Kay | English dub | |||
| Various | ||||
| Aeolus | English dub | |||
| Paul Phoenix | ||||
| Jacky Bryant | ||||
| Michael Arena | English dub | |||
| Jacky Bryant | ||||
| Jacky Bryant | ||||
| Optimus Prime | ||||
| Marc Godart | English dub | |||
| Various | ||||
| Harry, Newscaster, HQ | English dub | |||
| Announcer |
| 1991 | New York and Boston with Eric | Host | ||
| 1991–1992 | Radio Eikawa | Host | ||
| 1992 | Florida with Eric | Host |
| 1998 | Mulan | Film trailer | Japanese version |
| 1995 | Mr. Mike | Voice, motion capture; Interactive CG | ||
| 2001 | Universal Studios Japan | Woody Woodpecker | Theme Park | |
| 2007 | i-SOBOT | English voice; Robot | ||
| 2019 | Ultra Dark-Killer | YouTube web series; English dub | ||
| 2020 | Ultraman Zero, | YouTube web series; English dub | ||
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