Brice Armstrong

American anime voice actor (1936–2020)

Brice Weeks Armstrong Jr (January 3, 1936 – January 10, 2020) was an American voice actor and radio announcer who primarily worked on the properties of Funimation. He was best known as the original narrator of Dragon Ball, as well as Ginyu in Dragon Ball Z, and Slug in the movie Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.^[1] He was also known for being the voice of Miss Etta Kette in Barney & Friends.

Filmography

Anime

Baki the Grappler - Igari Kanji
Basilisk: The Kōga Ninja Scrolls - Tokugawa Ieyasu^[2]
Blue Gender - Chairman Victor
Burst Angel - Chief Katsu
Case Closed - Einstein Achurbee, Gregor, Nick Weldon, Robert Gilmore, Shane O’Connor, Theodore Kinsella, others
Dragon Ball - Narrator^[2]
- Dragon Ball Z - Ginyu (Remastered)
- Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug - Slug

Fruits Basket - Tohru's Grandfather
Fullmetal Alchemist - Tim Marcoh
The Galaxy Railways - Whitman (Ep. 8)
Lupin the 3rd - Various (Movies & Specials) (FUNimation dub)
Samurai 7 - Masamune
Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning - Raizou Shiranagatani
Yu Yu Hakusho - Mr. Takanaka, Master Mitamura, Topaz/Kougyoku, Kuroda

Video games

Half-Life: Decay (2001) - Richard Keller, HECU Soldiers
BloodRayne 2 (2004) - Kagan Elite^[2]

Orders

Barney & Friends - Miss Etta Kette
- It's Time for Counting! - Beauregard

Death

Brice Armstrong died on January 10, 2020, a week after his 84th birthday. He was survived by 6 children and 9 grandchildren.^[3]

References

^ "Dragon Ball narrator and Ginyu voice actor Brice Armstrong has died". Independent.co.uk. 2020-01-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Brice Armstrong (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 31 January 2020. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ "Dragon Ball Z Narrator Brice Armstrong Dead at 84".