Steven Blum
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| Steven Blum | ||
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| Birth name | Steven Jay Blum | |
| Alias | Daniel Andrews, Steve Bloom, Steven J. Blum, Steven Blum, Steve Blum, Steven Jay, Brandon Jeremy, David Lucas, Andrew Watton | |
| Born | April 28, 1965 [1] Santa Monica, California |
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| Occupation(s) | Voice Actor | |
| Children | Brandon, Jeremy | |
Steven Jay Blum (born April 28, 1965) is an American voice actor known primarily for his work in anime dubs and video games.
Blum voices TOM, the robotic host of Toonami shown on Cartoon Network. He was also the voice of 7-Eleven's "Oh thank heaven" television and radio advertisements. Most anime fans know him best as devil-may-care bounty hunter Spike Spiegel from the anime series Cowboy Bebop.
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[edit] Known Roles
[edit] Anime Roles
- Afro Samurai - Assassins
- Battle Athletes - Headmaster Grant Oldman
- Battle B-Daman - Cain McDonnell, Meowmigos, Ababa
- Bastard!! - Ninja Master Gara (credited as David Lucas)
- Blood+ - Moses, Collins, Additional Voices
- Chobits - Hiroyasu Ueda
- Code Geass - Kyōshirō Tōdō
- Cosmo Warrior Zero - harlock
- Cowboy Bebop - Spike Spiegel
- Daigunder - Professor Hajime Akebono
- Digimon Adventure 02 - Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon, BlackWarGreymon
- Digimon Tamers - Guilmon, Mitsuo Yamaki, Kenta Kitagawa
- Digimon Frontier - J. P. Shibayama
- Digimon Data Squad - Falcomon
- Dinozaurs - Drago Wing
- Duel Masters 2.0 - Chill, Extreme Bucketman, Kyoshiro Kokujo
- Fist of the North Star (TV series) - Shin of the Nanto Seiken
- FLCL - Miyu Miyu, Masashi
- Fushigi Yūgi - various voices
- Gad Guard - Seikai, Sharks, Additional Voices
- Gate Keepers - Jim Skylark
- Great Teacher Onizuka - Eikichi Onizuka (Credited as David Lucas)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - The Laughing Man
- Guyver - Agito Makishima
- Gungrave - Ballardbird Lee, Escort, and Lightning Thug #3
- Gundam 0080 - Al's Father
- .hack//Legend of the Twilight - Sanjuro
- Idaten Jump - Takeshi Yamato
- IGPX - Alex Cunningham
- Initial D - K.T. Takahashi
- Kikaider - Saburo/Hakkaider
- Last Exile - Vincent Arthai
- Love Hina - Masayuki Haitani
- Macross Plus - Marge Gueldoa
- Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden - Toh Ryuga
- Metropolis - Acetylene Lamp
- Mobile Suit Gundam" Movie Trilogy - Char Aznable
- Naruto - Zabuza Momochi, Orochimaru, Murasame, Sazuname
- Outlaw Star - various extras
- Planetes - Kho Cheng-Shin
- Rurouni Kenshin - Toma Sakaki and Makoto Shishio
- S-CRY-ed - Kazuma
- Samurai Champloo - Mugen
- Scrapped Princess - Luke Storm
- Shinzo - Sago and Eilis
- Street Fighter Alpha - Ken
- Street Fighter II: The Movie - T. Hawk
- Street Fighter II V - Dhalsim
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again - Maj. Nexx and Lord Feff
- The Big O - Roger Smith
- Transformers: Robots in Disguise - Dark Scream, W.A.R.S.
- Trigun - Leader of the Roderick Thieves
- Vandread - Duero McFile
- Wild Arms: Twilight Venom - Issac
- Witch Hunter Robin - Akio Kurosawa
- Wolf's Rain - Darcia
- X-TV - Aoki Seiichirou
- Zatch Bell! - Gofure, Shin, Dr. Hakase
- Zentrix - OmnicronPsy
[edit] Non-Anime Roles
- Ben 10 - Ghostfreak, Vilgax, Heatblast, additional voices
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law - Yakky Doodle, Clamhead
- Megas XLR - Jamie
- My Life as a Teenage Robot - Smytus, Additional Voices
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy - Additional Voices
- The Spectacular Spider-Man - Green Goblin, Chameleon
- Toonami (Cartoon Network Block) - TOM
- W.I.T.C.H. - Blunk, Raythor, Kurt
- Wolverine and the X-Men - Wolverine
- What's New, Scooby-Doo? - Rufus Raucous in the episode "Riva Ras Regas", various others
[edit] Movie Roles
- Ah! My Goddess: The Movie - Celestin
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie - Spike Spiegel
- Digimon: The Movie - Poromon, Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon, Computer Voice #1
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - Vincent Valentine
- Lilo & Stitch - additional voices
- Sakura Wars: The Movie - Yuichi Kayama
- They Were 11 - Rednose, Amazon, King
- What the Bleep Do We Know!? - Various Character voices
- Armitage III: Poly-Matrix - Kelly's Manager
[edit] Documentaries
- Adventures in Voice Acting - Himself
[edit] Video games
- .hack//INFECTION - Sanjuro, Wiseman
- .hack//MUTATION - Sanjuro, Wiseman
- .hack//OUTBREAK - Sanjuro, Wiseman, Boney Grunty
- .hack//QUARANTINE - Sanjuro, Wiseman, Boney Grunty
- .hack//G.U. - Yata, IYOTEN
- Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - Captain Jack Bartlett (uncredited)
- Age of Empires III: The War Chiefs - Colonel Sven Kuechler
- Ape Escape 3 - Monkey Yellow
- Ape Escape Academy as Monkey Yellow, Yellow Pipotron
- Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits - Volk
- Atelier Iris - Arlin
- ATV Offroad Fury 4 - Voice Over and Motion Capture talent
- Battlezone (computer game) - Corporal Buzz
- The Bouncer - Kou Leifoh
- Brave Fencer Musashi - Jon (Colonel Capricciola)
- Bushido Blade 2 - Gengoro
- Call of Duty - Cpt. Foley
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness - Dracula
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay - Rust
- Clive Barker's Jericho - Captain Ross, announcer (commercial)
- Command & Conquer: Generals - Various voices
- Company of Heroes - Intel and Base Commander
- Crash Nitro Kart - Crash Bandicoot and Emperor Velo the 27th
- Death by Degrees - Narrator and Enrique Ortega (English and Japanese voices)
- Dead To Rights II - Jack Slate
- Dead Rising - Cliff Hudson, Roger Hall, Additional Voices
- Destroy All Humans! - Mutated Majestic Agents, Loudspeaker Voice in Area 42
- Destroy All Humans! 2 - The Black Ninja Leader, Yamasuke Hirotaro, Space Trafftic Control and additional voices
- Digimon Rumble Arena - Reapermon
- Digimon Rumble Arena 2 - Guilmon
- Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII - Vincent Valentine
- Doom 3 - various guards, scientists, and zombies
- Dragon Ball GT: Final Bout - Goku
- Dynasty Warriors 4 - Sun Jian and Xiahou Yuan (uncredited)
- Dynasty Warriors 5 - Sun Jian and Xiahou Yuan (uncredited)
- F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate - Captain David Raynes
- Final Fantasy XII - Ba'Gamnan
- Full Throttle - Sid
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
- God of War - Ares
- Gothic 3
- Gears of War - Marcus Fenix (Pre-release version only)
- Ground Control II - K´haunir Vicath and G´hall Vicath
- Guild Wars Prophecies - Justiciar Hablion and as the male lead character
- Guild Wars Factions - the male lead character
- Guild Wars Eye of the North - Pyre Fierceshot
- Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes - Maximillian Berger
- Gungrave Overdose - Bunji Kugashira, Zell Condorbrave, and Fangoram
- Halo 3 - various minor roles (uncredited)
- Hot Shots Golf Fore - Zeus
- Justice League Heroes - White Martian Leader
- Killer7 - Kenjiro Matsuoka, Benjamin Keane
- Lost: Via Domus - Jack Shepard
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Wolverine, Venom(uncredited)
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes - various guards
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops - Gene
- Mission Impossible: Operation Surma - Ethan Hunt
- Nano Breaker - Keith Spencer
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja - Zabuza Momochi
- Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 - Orochimaru, The Third Hokage, Zabuza, and Townsfolk
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja - Orochimaru and Zabuza
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 - Orochimaru, Zabuza and The Second Hokage
- Neo Contra - Master Contra
- NeverWinter Nights - Daelan Red Tiger
- NeverWinter Nights 2 - One of Many (Child, Brute, Mad Woman), PC (Male Hardened Battler Voice Set)
- No More Heroes - Dark Star
- Omega Boost - various voices
- Phantom Brave - Walnut
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow - Joshamee Gibbs, Black Smoke James, Gibbs, various other roles
- Pirates of the Caribbean Online - Jolly Roger
- Pitfall: The Lost Expedition - Pitfall Harry
- Power Rangers: Super Legends: - Lord Zedd, Lunar Wolf Ranger, SPD H.Q. Security System
- Psychonauts - G-Men/Lungfish Zealot/Tiger
- The Punisher - Bullseye
- Quake 4 - various minor characters
- Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire - Abduel/Andre/Kokeeno Pookameeso/Magnum Opus/Salim
- Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando - the Thugs-4-Less Leader
- Rogue Galaxy - Zegram Ghart, Henry, Borga, Golba
- Samurai Warriors - Keiji Maeda (uncredited)
- Samurai Western - "Ralph"
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - Gale
- Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 - Gale
- SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs - Mark Tepper
- SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault - Mark Tepper
- SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2 - Mark Tepper
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time - Schweimer
- Star Wars: Battlefront II - various Rebel soldiers
- Star Wars: Empire at War - Imperial advisor, Rebel Plex Soldier
- Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption - Consortium advisor, Consortium Defiler
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast - Reborn Jedi, Galak Fyyar
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance - Lt. Olin Garn
- Sword of Etheria (Over Zenith) - Vitis
- The Battle for Middle Earth II - additional voices
- The Dig - Dr. Ludger Brink, Cocytan leader
- The Punisher - Bullseye, Matt Murdock, various additional voices
- Transformers: Autobots - Create-A-Bot
- Transformers: Decepticons - Create-A-Bot
- Transformers: The Game - Trailbreaker
- Ultimate Alliance - Wolverine
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - Descendant
- Urban Reign - Brad Hawk
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - Andrei/Courier/Sabbat
- Warriors Orochi: Xiahou Yuan (uncredited)
- Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra - Canaan, Professor, Sellers
- X-Men Legends - Wolverine
- X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse - Wolverine, Omega Red.
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault - Imperial Guard, Assassin (not credited)
- Zatch Bell! Mamodo Fury - Shin
[edit] Aliases
For several years, Blum has used several pseudonyms in non-union productions, the most commonly-known being David Lucas. Blum actively denied that he and Lucas are the same person, stating instead that they are acquaintances. As of 2004, he has unionized and now uses his real name full time.[citation needed]
Blum has worked under several aliases:
- David Lucas
- Andrew Watton
- Steven Jay
- Steve Blum
- Steven J. Blum
- Daniel Andrews
- Roger Smith
- David Jeremy
[edit] Other
Wrote English version of:
- Digimon: Tamers Episode 20 'Out of the Blue'
- Digimon: Tamers Episode 23 'A World Apart'
[edit] External links
- Steven Blum at the Internet Movie Database
- Steven Blum at the Voice Chasers Database
- Steve Blum at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
- Steven Blum at TV.com
- Steve Blum convention appearances on AnimeCons.com
- A letter from "Lucas" to a fansite
| Preceded by Brendan O'Brien |
English voice of Crash Bandicoot 2003 |
Succeeded by Jess Harnell |

