Jon St. John

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Jon St. John is an American voice actor. Starting his career in voice work in 1975, when he was a Top 40 radio DJ in North Carolina. Due to his vocal talent and technical skills he got hired as a production director for several US radio stations in cities including: Norfolk, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, and Los Angeles. He realized he could use his voice talents in other areas, and has since provided the voice for numerous video game characters.

[edit] Video games

In 1999, he provided the voice for the drill sergeant Dwight T. Barnes as well as various other marines in Half-Life: Opposing Force. He also does voice acting for the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Jon did the voices for Big the Cat in Sonic Adventure and Sonic Heroes, E-102 Gamma in Sonic Battle, and E-123 Omega in Sonic Heroes. He also dubs the voice of professor Simon and Archibald in Runaway 2.

[edit] Duke Nukem

Jon St. John is probably best known for being the voice of Duke Nukem in all the Duke Nukem games from 1996 onwards, starting with Duke Nukem 3D (before that, the voice of Duke Nukem was done by Joe Siegler and Todd Replogle of Apogee Software).