Sean Schemmel

 ( 1968 Births ) 

Sean Schemmel (born November 21, 1968) is an American voice actor, ADR director, and screenwriter known chiefly for his work in cartoons, anime, and video games. His most notable role is the teen and adult voice of Goku in the Funimation dub of the Dragon Ball franchise.

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Career Initially, Schemmel never planned on becoming a voice actor; he trained to be a Classical music French horn player. When a friend persuaded him to audition for Dragon Ball Z, he tried out for a minor character who was going to be killed in the first season of the show. He had been recording for two weeks before he was told that he was going to be the lead. Since being cast as Goku by Funimation in 1999, he has been the most consistent English voice actor for the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball franchise, having voiced the character's older teen and adult incarnations in every anime series produced to date ( Dragon Ball, Z, GT, Kai, Super, and Daima) and most Dragon Ball animated movies and video games, as well as other characters such as King Kai and Zamasu. Besides voicing Goku, Schemmel has lent his voice to several other anime characters including Amidamaru in Shaman King (2001), Lucario in Pokémon and Elliot Grant in Mew Mew Power. His other roles in animation include Firefly in , Gonard in Kappa Mikey and Hawkman in DC Super Friends. In video games, Schemmel has provided his voice to Makuta in Bionicle, Black Doom in Shadow the Hedgehog, Maxwell in Bullet Witch, Horace in Skullgirls, Batman in The Dark Knight Rises, Sun Wukong (whom Goku was originally based on) in Smite, and Marc Wilson in Fallout 4.

In addition to his voice acting career, Schemmel was also an ADR Director and scriptwriter for NYAV Post, where he had directed and adapted for English dubs of several Japanese anime series. In the field of narration, he has won two awards for his audiobook recordings.

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Personal life Schemmel was married to Melissa Cox, from 1993 to 1998. He married actress Melodee Lenz in 1998. The marriage ended nearly three years later. In a 2018 interview, Schemmel mentioned that he is on the autism spectrum.

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Filmography

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Anime

+ List of dubbing performances and production work in anime television series and OVAs
Goku, King Kai, Nail, Vegito	Funimation dub Vegito shared w/ Christopher Sabat
TV special
Goku (teen)	Funimation dub Goku (young) voiced by Stephanie Nadolny
OVA
ADR voice director, script writer
ADR voice director, script writer
ADR voice director, script writer
Morrison, Archie, Cyrus, Sir Aaron's Lucario, Lampent, Dracovish, Sawk, Thundurus	4Kids dub DuArt dub Iyuno Media Group dub
Goku (adult, Super Saiyan 4), King Kai, Gogeta (SS4)	Funimation dub Goku (young) voiced by Stephanie Nadolny Gogeta shared w/ Christopher Sabat
TV special
Episode 4
ADR voice director, script writer
Episode 8
OVA
OVA
Episode 4
Episodes 1–4
OVA
ADR voice director
Helmeppo, Hatchan, Chabo, Kuroobi, Hachi Dr. Indigo Goku |	4Kids dub Funimation dub
OVA
4Kids dub of Tokyo Mew Mew
ADR voice director, script writer
Episode 10
Episodes 9, 11–12
ADR voice director
4Kids dub of Yu-Gi-Oh!
TV special
OVA
OVA
Episodes 23–24
Goku, King Kai, Nail, Vegito	Includes The Final Chapters Vegito shared w/ Christopher Sabat
OVA
Goku, King Kai, Zamasu, Vegito	Funimation dub Vegito shared w/ Christopher Sabat
Second Season
Episode 1, Episode 19, Episode 20
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+ List of dubbing performances in feature films

+ List of dubbing performances in anime films

Funimation dub

Funimation dub

Funimation dub

Funimation dub

Funimation dub

ADR voice director

Compilation film

Funimation dub

Funimation redub

Gogeta shared w/ Christopher Sabat

Funimation redub

Funimation redub

Gaston, Conrad

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Animation

+ List of voice performances in animation

4Kids version

English dub

Episode: "Race Against the Machine"

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

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Live-action

+List of dubbing performances in live-action television series !Year !Title !Role !Notes
2023	Ultraman Z	Ultraman Zero	English dub

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Video games

+ List of dubbing performances in video games

Mobile game

Mobile game

Mobile game

Archive audio

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Awards

2008	Earphones Award	The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
2013	Audie Award	I Suck at Girls by Justin Halpern	Audie Award for Humor
2019	Guinness World Records	Goku	Guinness World Record for most people performing a Goku

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External links

Categories: 1968 Births, Living People, American Male Screenwriters, American Male Television Writers, American Male Video Game Actors, American Male Voice Actors, American Actors With Disabilities, American Writers With Disabilities, Television Writers From California, American Voice Directors, Male Actors From Los Angeles, People From Waterloo, Iowa, University Of North Texas Alumni, 20th-century American Male Actors, 21st-century American Male Actors

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