David Hayter

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David Hayter
Birth Name David Bryan Hayter
Born February 6, 1969
in Santa Monica, California
Age 38
Statistics
Occupation Voice Actor/Actor/Screenwriter
Other Names Sean Barker
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Family Wife, one child
Notable Credit(s) The Castle of Cagliostro
as Arsène Lupin III
Metal Gear Solid
as Solid Snake & Big Boss
Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie
as Kurama
Agent Sandie Schnarr

David Bryan Hayter (born February 6, 1969 in Santa Monica, California), is an American voice actor, actor, and screenwriter. He is most notable for providing the English voices of Solid Snake and later Big Boss in the popular Metal Gear Solid series, and for writing the screenplay for X-Men and co-writing the screenplay for X2: X-Men United.

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[edit] Biography

Though born in California, Hayter's parents were Canadian. He did some live acting in the early 1990s, but became interested in voice acting after making a cameo appearance in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad, and later landed the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. He also provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III in the English language version of the anime film The Castle of Cagliostro. Contrary to popular belief, Hayter did not voice Wolverine/Logan in the X-Men animated series; that was the voice work of Cathal J. Dodd.

In 1998, Hayter voiced Solid Snake in the highly successful PlayStation video game Metal Gear Solid. The deep, gruff voice of the game's protagonist is instantly recognizable and extremely popular with fans. He provided Snake's voice in later Metal Gear games such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (which was a remake of Metal Gear Solid), and provided the voice for a closely related character, Naked Snake (Big Boss), in the prequels, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. Hayter has voiced characters in other video games, such as Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

David Hayter Standing Next to his Alter-Ego on the set of the film Guyver 2:Dark Hero .
David Hayter Standing Next to his Alter-Ego on the set of the film Guyver 2:Dark Hero .

Hayter has appeared in the credits of some of his voiceover projects as Sean Barker, the name of his character in the 1994 film Guyver: Dark Hero. He also used this pseudonym for his anime dub work in YuYu Hakusho. Hayter wrote the screenplay of the comic book movies X-Men and co-wrote its sequel, X2: X-Men United. He also co-wrote The Scorpion King and produced unused drafts for Hulk and The Chronicles of Riddick.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Voice acting

[edit] Others

[edit] Trivia

  • In the original manual of Metal Gear Solid, the voice of Solid Snake is credited to Sean Barker, which was the name of the character Hayter played in Guyver: Dark Hero.
  • According to Gamefaqs User Chris Ho's interview with Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of Metal Gear Solid for The Twin Snakes. This is the reason why the voice acting in The Twin Snakes was completely redone with the same actors.
  • An interview with David Hayter by Game Informer in 2001 showed that Hayter wished for the then-unconfirmed Metal Gear Solid movie to be animated or made in CGI. He also wished to be the screenwriter under the possible supervision of Hideo Kojima.
  • Hayter is known to be a huge fan of the Black Widow comic books, and is said to have named his daughter Natasha for the Black Widow protagonist of the same name.
  • Hayter is the only Metal Gear Solid actor to date to have played and beaten the Metal Gear games he's voiced in.[1]
  • Hayter has written a 324 page screenplay adaptation to the graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and David Gibbons which has been hailed as one of the most accurate translations of comics to films ever written.
  • For a while it was thought that David Hayter wouldn't be able to voice Snake in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots due to the fact that Snake has become an old man in this game. But recently it has been confirmed that he will be Solid Snake's voice actor for the upcoming game.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ UK PSP. Retrieved on December 15, 2007.

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