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Jeff Manning

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Jeff Manning
Born
Utah, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican
Other namesJeffrey Manning
Occupation(s)Voice actor, narrator
AgentTriple Sun Talent

Jeff Manning, also credited as Jeffrey Manning, is an American voice actor and narrator based in Japan. He is known primarily for his work on the North American English dub of Iron Chef, as well as roles in several video games and voice-overs on numerous television commercials. He is perhaps best known as the Announcer and Master Hand in the first Nintendo 64 game Super Smash Bros.[2] He previously worked for Mickey's Company, an agency based in Japan. He now works for Triple Sun Talent, another agency based in Japan.[citation needed]

Bio

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A native of Utah, and alumni of Brigham Young University, Manning first came to Japan as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He returned there in 1983 to work for Frontier Enterprises doing studio dubbing.

Notable roles

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Anime

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Year Title Role Notes Source
1995 Cyborg 009: The Legend of the Super Galaxy Chang Changku / 006 English Dub
1999, 2000 Sensual Phrase Freddie Brown, Rupert Grazer Eps. 31, 33, 44
Original Japanese dub
2001 Case Closed Ed McKay Eps. 238-239
Original Japanese dub
2007 Ghost Hunt Dr. Oliver Davis/Raymond Wall Ep. 20
Original Japanese dub
2012 Little Charo: Tohoku-hen Mage, Yoshio Eps. 3, 7
English Dub
2012 Kids on the Slope Male Customer Ep. 4
Original Japanese dub
2014 Sword Art Online II NPC Gunman Ep. 4
Original Japanese dub		 [3]
2019 Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire Zhon Han Chen Original Japanese dub
2019 Free! Road to the World - the Dream Albert Volandel Original Japanese dub [4]
2022 Free! The Final Stroke Albert Volandel Original Japanese dub [5]

Live action

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Video games

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Year Title Role Platform Source
1991 Ys III: Wanderers from Ys King McGuire TurboGrafx-CD [8]
1996 Clock Tower Nolan Campbell PlayStation [8]
1997 The Note Toshi PlayStation [8]
1997 Willy Wombat Tagdor Sega Saturn [8]
1997 Ray Tracers Jalta Lang PlayStation
1998 Soulcalibur Announcer Arcade / Dreamcast / iOS / Xbox 360 / Android [9]
1999 Super Smash Bros. Announcer, Master Hand Nintendo 64 [2]
1999 Countdown Vampires Keith J. Snyder PlayStation
2000 Chase The Express Phillip Mason PlayStation [8]
2000 Shenmue Susumu Akutagawa Dreamcast / Windows / PlayStation 4 / Xbox One [8]
2001 Blaster Master: Blasting Again Kaiser, Murph, Ringage PlayStation [8]
2002 Virtua Fighter 4 Lion Rafale Arcade / PlayStation 2 [10]
2003 Transformers Tataki Megatron / Galvatron PlayStation 2
2004 Glass Rose Matsunosuke Shimada, Jungo Ogasawara PlayStation 2 [8]
2004 Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean Rodolfo GameCube [8]
2005 Virtua Quest Lion Rafale GameCube / PlayStation 2 [11]
2005 Shining Force Neo Max PlayStation 2 [8]
2007 Virtua Fighter 5 Lion Rafale Arcade / PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360
2007 Mega Man ZX Advent Bifrost Nintendo DS [12]
2009 The King of Fighters XII Shen Woo Arcade / PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360
2010 Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Announcer Arcade / Wii
2010 Arc Rise Fantasia Hosea Wii
2010 Ace Combat: Joint Assault Additional voices PlayStation Portable
2017 Super Bomberman R Red Bomberman Nintendo Switch / PlayStation 4 / Windows / Xbox One [8]
2020 Ninjala Announcer Nintendo Switch

References

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  1. ^ "Jeff Manning on Gaikokujin-Talent.com" (in Japanese). Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  2. ^ a b HAL Laboratory. Super Smash Bros. Nintendo. Scene: Ending credits, 0:55 in, Voice Actors.
  3. ^ "声優さん出演リスト 個別表示：マニング ジェフ(Jeff Manning)" [Voice actor's appearance list individual display: Jeff Manning]. Voice Artist Database (in Japanese). GamePlaza-HARUKA-. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  4. ^ "CHARACTER | 『劇場版 Free!-Road to the World-夢』公式サイト". rw.iwatobi-sc.com (in Japanese). Retrieved September 28, 2019.
  5. ^ "CAST/STAFF | 『劇場版 Free!-the Final Stroke-』公式サイト". fs.iwatobi-sc.com (in Japanese). Retrieved July 5, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "ULTRA GALAXY FIGHT: THE ABSOLUTE CONSPIRACY ENGLISH CAST REVEALED!". Ultraman Galaxy. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  7. ^ "ULTRA GALAXY FIGHT: THE ABSOLUTE CONSPIRACY ENGLISH CAST REVEALED!". Tsuburaya Productions. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Jeff Manning (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 24, 2017. 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 credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. ^ Doi, Hitoshi. "Search results for "Jeffry Maning" in ALL database". Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  10. ^ Doi, Hitoshi. "Search results for "Jeff Manning" in ALL database". Hitoshi Doi's Seiyuu Database. Retrieved July 20, 2019.
  11. ^ "Virtua Quest voice cast". Album on Imgur. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
  12. ^ Inti Creates. Mega Man ZX Advent. Capcom. Scene: Ending credits, 3:24:31 in, –VOICE CAST–.
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