Richard Epcar is an actor / voice actor-director who has voiced over 500 characters in Games, Animation and Anime. Best known as the voice of Batou in Ghost in the Shell, The Joker in several Batman games including Injustice: Gods Among Us, Raiden in Mortal Kombat and Ansem in Kingdom Hearts. Starting out in Robotech, you've heard him in Korra, Lupin, Monster, Transformers, Star Wars, Bleach, Gundam, Babylon 5 and Power Rangers to name a few. He's also in many other games including: Final Fantasy, Saints Row, Arkham Origins, Skyrim, MK vs. DC, Call of Duty, Star Wars, Transformers, X-Com, Command & Conquer, Dead or Alive, Dead Space, World of War Craft, League of Legends, Splinter Cell, Guilty Gears, and Resident Evil. Richard has voice directed many games including: Arkham Origins, Dead Island, Blue Dragon, Star Ocean, Unreal Tournament, Jackass, Smackdown vs. Raw, and voice directed many shows including: GITS 2, The Reef, Robotech Shadow Chronicles, Lupin the Third, etc. On Camera Richard has appeared in many shows including: Warehouse 13, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Columbo, Diagnosis Murder, Matlock, Cheers, Days of our Lives, General Hospital and a lead role in the soon to be released Broken Spirits.
Currently best known for his voice work as Bat in the English-language dubs of Kkaku Kidtai and "Kkaku kidtai: Stand Alone Complex" , as well as the video-game versions of the English-language dubbed Ghost in the Shell series.
Is one of the only English-speaking voice actors and to voice the same character of all of the Xenosaga video game series. Richard was the only voice actor to provide the English voice of Ziggy in the series.
Now owns and operates the Los Angeles based voice production company, "Epcar Entertainment, Inc." along with his wife Ellyn Stern.
