Eric Stuart
Eric Stuart is a voice actor for the English-language dub of the Pokémon anime. His most famous voices are those of Brock and James.
Biography
Eric Stuart, the son of a criminal attorney and a modern dancer, grew up in Brooklyn. He was born October 18, 1967. He formed his first band at age 14, inspired by his music teacher. He learned to play the guitar in eighth grade, and was writing and recording songs by the tenth grade. Before graduating high school, he had recorded over 40 original songs.
After high school, Stuart worked as a production assistant and played shows in the New York City area. As his career continued, he and his band went on to open for such famous acts such as Chicago, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, and Peter Frampton.
Pokémon
Eric Stuart's most famous roles on Pokémon are that of Brock and James. He is often criticized by fans for allegedly saying that he plays James as flamboyantly as possible so to make the character seem homosexual. While many fans see this as evidence of a grudge against James, Stuart admits that along with Gourry Gabriev from Slayers, James is his favorite character that he has played. However, he also says that he is most like Brock.
In addition to providing voices for the series, Stuart has worked as a voice director on the English dubs of both Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!.
When 4Kids gave up their dubbing license in 2005, Eric Stuart left the series along with most of the other voice actors who worked with that company.
Voices on Pokémon
Humans
- Brock (EP001-AG145, H001, all movies up until movie 8 except The Legend of Thunder!)
- James (EP013-AG145, H003, H012, all movies up until movie 8 except The Legend of Thunder!)
- Butch
- Flint (H001)
- Magikarp salesman
- Professor Sebastian
- Master Hamm
- Team Magma member
- Mayor of Trovitopolis's SWAT team member
- Luana's gym assistant
Pokémon
- Ash's Metapod
- Ash's Charmeleon
- Ash's Squirtle
- Ash's Snorlax (AG133)
- Ash's Totodile
- May's Squirtle
- Brock's Ludicolo
- Bugsy's Scyther
- Tracey's Scyther
- Brock's Pineco and Foretress
- James's Koffing and Weezing
- Gary's Blastoise
- Jessie's Lickitung
- Jessie's Ekans
- James's Victreebel (Initial appearance)
- Misty's Poliwhirl and Politoed
- Marina's Croconaw (The Legend of Thunder)
- Squirtle Squad
- Zippo
- Cruise
- Aerodactyl
- Blastoise
- Croconaw
- Electrode
- Feraligatr
- Hitmonchan
- Hitmonlee
- Hypno
- Jolteon
- Kabuto
- Machoke
- Magnemite
- Magneton
- Marowak
- Omanyte
- Omastar
- Scizor
- Scyther
- Tentacruel
- Venomoth
- Venusaur
- Voltorb
- Wartortle
- Weedle
- Breloom
Other
Musical appearances in Pokémon
- I Keep My Home in My Heart
- Two Perfect Girls
- Takeshi's Paradise (English version)
- Double Trouble
- The Christmas Song
- Pokémon Christmas Bash
- Team Rocket Forever (English version)
- We Will Meet Again
Famous non-Pokémon roles
- Gourry Gabriev (Slayers)
- Seto Kaiba, Bastion Misawa (Yu-Gi-Oh!/Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster GX)
- Metaknight (Kirby: Right Back at Ya!)
- Dik Dik van Dik (Ultimate Muscle)
- Lucian, Grey (Valkyrie Profile)
- Ail, Toil, OX-11 (Gall Force: Eternal Story)
- Yutaka Watari (Descendants of Darkness/Yami no Matsuei)
- Black Shadow, Draq, Octoman (F-Zero GP Legend)
- Narrator (One Piece)
- Furusawa, Lupin, Tochizawa, "Number One" (Here is Greenwood (Central Park Media dub))
- Dr. Z (Dinosaur King)
Music career
Solo albums
- Eric Stuart (1998)
Eric Stuart Band albums
- Curiosity (1996)
- Picture Perfect World (1997)
- Blue, Dressed in Black (2000)
- Bombshellshocked (2003)
- In The County of Kings (2007)
