Christopher "Chris" Edgerly (born August 6, 1969, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American actor and voice actor. He is the voice of Gobber the Belch in the TV Series as well as the Dawn of the Dragon Racers short, How to Train Your Dragon video game, and School of Dragons.
Biography[]
Edgerly was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, he moved to Savannah, Georgia at the age of two with his mother and two brothers. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism.
He provided the voice of Peter Potamus on the Adult Swim animated series, Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, in addition to several guest voices on the TV series Drawn Together. Other television voice appearances include Duck Dodgers, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Codename: Kids Next Door, and Kenan & Kel. He can also be heard as the voice of "Cloak" in the Disney animated feature The Wild. In 2006, Chris started voicing Nick Diamond, The Masked Man and referee Mills Lane on the return of MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch. He also provided a voice for a Brute in the video game Halo 2 and appeared on two episodes of Kenan & Kel.
He has voiced various soldiers in the video game Valkyria Chronicles and TEL in Infinity Blade III. He recently voiced the protagonist character Ken Ogawa in FromSoftware's video game Ninja Blade. He also provided the voice of Gambit in the video game adaption of X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as voicing different characters in the 2012 video game, Lego The Lord of the Rings. He also voiced Peter Parker/Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson in The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man. He also voiced Francis Little in Disney XD original series, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil. Additionally, he voices Hidan in Naruto Shippuden. Edgerly played the voice of Jedi Master Eeth Koth for the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the second season episode "Grievous Intrigue". He has also recently become a cast member for The Simpsons, playing various characters. He also voiced Ren Hoek in the 2011 Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Wii game Nicktoons MLB. In 2013, Edgerly took the role of a spiky winged creature called a pufferthorn, and his character was named Pop Thorn, in Skylanders: Swap Force. Edgerly also has provided the voice of Gobber the Belch on Cartoon Network's DreamWorks Dragons: The Series. He continued to do so in Dragons: Race to the Edge.
He starred in Gaturro as the title character. He was one of the two main voice actors in the English release of Top Cat: The Movie.
Selected Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Voice role(s) | Notes | ||
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| 2003 | Tales of Symphonia |
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Video game | ||
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
Aragorn | ||||
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age |
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth |
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| The Incredibles | Additional Voices | ||||
| 2005 | Kingdom Hearts II | Cid Highwind | |||
| Chicken Little | Additional Voices | Film | |||
| 2006 | Happy Feet |
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| Happy Feet | Video game | ||||
| 2006 | The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II |
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II: The Rise of the Witch-king |
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| 2007 | TMNT | Additional Voices | Film | ||
| Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children | Cid Highwind | ||||
| 2008 | Valkyria Chronicles | Drill Instructor | Video game | ||
| 2008–2009 | Wolverine and the X-Men | Agent Haskett | Television series | ||
| 2008–2014 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Eeth Koth | |||
| 2009 | The Lord of the Rings: Conquest |
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Video game | ||
| 2010 | The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest |
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| 2011 | The Lord of the Rings: War in the North |
Aragorn | |||
| 2011–2018 | The Simpsons | Various Characters | Television series | ||
| 2013 | Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII | Additional Voices | Video game | ||
| 2014 | The Amazing Spider-Man 2 |
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| 2014–2017 | Clarence |
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Television series | ||
| 2015–2017 | Transformers: Robots in Disguise |
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| 2015–2018 | Sofia the First |
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| 2018 | World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth |
post-production | Video game |
DreamWorks Dragons Franchise Filmography[]
| Year | Title | Voice role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Gobber the Belch | Video game |
| 2013–2014 | DreamWorks Dragons | Riders of Berk | |
| Defenders of Berk | |||
| 2014 | Dawn of the Dragon Racers | Short film | |
| 2015 | Dragons: Race to the Edge | Season 1 | |
| 2016 | Season 2 | ||
| Season 3 | |||
| 2017 | Season 4 | ||
| Season 5 | |||
| 2018 | Season 6 | ||
| 2013–Present | School of Dragons | Video game |
Gallery[]
External links[]
- Official Website
Chris Edgerly on Wikipedia
Chris Edgerly on IMDb
Chris Edgerly on Rotten Tomatoes- Chris Edgerly on Spotify
- Chris Edgerly on Twitter
