Jimmy Zoppi

Jimmy Zoppi (sometimes credited as Billy Beach, born March 8, 1954 in West Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American bassist, vocalist, and voice-over artist. He has been playing with bands since high school and has been a bassist and vocalist of the Carter Cathcart Band since 1981. Zoppi's first voiceover part was O.G. Readmore on the ABC Weekend Special. After that, he recorded voice overs for Kit Kat candy bars, Good Humor, Coors Light, and others. Jimmy Zoppi later auditioned and got several roles in the then-unknown Pokémon series and has since become known for a prolific amount of anime dub voice work for Central Park Media, Media Blasters, TAJ Productions, and was sometimes known to lend his voice to 4Kids Entertainment, until an episode of Sonic X where he performed the voice of Vector, afterwards he hardly ever starred in a 4Kids Based series.

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Alien 9 - Kumi's Borg
Cubix - Mong, Hop2ix, Cerebrix
Mew Mew Power - Cyniclons Tarb (Alien Taruto)
Ping Pong Club - Maeno
Pokémon - (Seasons 1 - 5: Gary Oak, Rattata, Steven Stone, Raticate, Grimer, Muk, Shellder, Quagsire, Spearow, Snubbull, Tomo, Todd Snap) (Season 9 onwards: Gary Oak, James, Meowth, and Professor Oak; Gengar in Pokémon: Mystery Dungeon special
Revolutionary Girl Utena - Miki Kaoru
Seven of Seven - Mayor
Slayers - Prince Philionel el de Saillune, additional voices
Tama and Friends - Bengbu, Wocket
Twin Angels - Onimaro
Ultraman Tiga - Masami Horii
Valkyrie Profile - Kashell, Badrach
The World of Narue - Masaki Maruo
One Piece - Butchie, Satori (Pirates Carnival only)
Yu-Gi-Oh! - Weevil Underwood
Sonic X - Vector the Crocodile (first appearance of the character)
Rampage: Total Destruction - CEO of Scum Labs and Scum Soda
Beast Hero - Plander/Kings Foster Son #1

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