D. C. Douglas

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D.C. Douglas
Born February 2, 1966 (1966-02-02) (age 46)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Voice Actor
Years active 1978–present
Website
http://www.dcdouglas.com

D.C. Douglas (born February 2, 1966) is an American character actor, voice actor, and director now living in Los Angeles. Douglas was born in Berkeley, California.[1] His father was a salesman,[1] and his mother was an artist and writer.[1][2] His grandparents were vaudeville performers.[1] His grandmother, Grace Hathaway,[3] continued in burlesque as a dancer and his grandfather, Joe Miller,[4] became known in San Francisco for his talks at the Theosophy Lodge and his weekly walks through Golden Gate Park.[5]

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[edit] Theatre, film and television

Douglas performed on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s, moving to Los Angeles in 1985 to study at the Estelle Harman Actors Workshop. In Los Angeles, he co-founded the improvisation troupe Section Eight, and was a member of Theatre of NOTE.

In 1996, he landed a small role in Boston Common, an NBC pilot. When the show was picked up for a season he returned in ten additional episodes as the character D.C., the antagonist to Hedy Burress's character.

The Crooked Eye starring Linda Hunt and Fay Masterson

That same year, Douglas wrote, produced and starred in Falling Words, his first festival film short. In subsequent years he wrote, produced and directed The Eighth Plane, an anti-Scientology gangster film short and Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree, about cousin marriage and Lewis Henry Morgan.

In 2005, Douglas's film short, Duck, Duck, Goose!, played film festivals worldwide and received awards for the Best Short from the Seattle's True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) and Best Actor from the Trenton Film Festival.

His 2009 CGI film short, The Crooked Eye starring Fay Masterson and narrated by Academy Award winner Linda Hunt, played festivals around the world and won awards for Best Narration (STIFF), Best Screenplay (HDFest - New York) and Best Animated Short (Red Rock Film Festival)[6]

Film credits include Black Ops with Lance Henriksen and Universal Remote: The Movie with Charles Q. Murphy; Hallmark Channel TV movie Final Approach with Dean Cain; and the Lindsay Lohan "comeback" film Labor Pains on the ABC Family channel.

Television credits include The Bold and the Beautiful, 24, Star Trek: Enterprise, NYPD Blue, ER, Charmed, Without A Trace among others. He most recently appeared in CBS's Criminal Minds, ABC's Castle and Fox's Raising Hope.

[edit] Voice over

D.C. Douglas' voice over career encompasses video games, television and radio commercials, film and voice-matching celebrities like Val Kilmer and Kevin Spacey. He was part of the first wave of "internet age" voice over artists at the beginning of the 21st century who built and worked from home studios.

Voice over credits include The Master in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer video game, Albert Wesker in Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Raven in Tekken 6, AWACS Ghost Eye in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation, Commandant Alexei in Tales of Vesperia, Legion in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, Grimoire Noir in Nier, as well as several national campaigns (including the GEICO Celebrity campaign from 2006–2008, the McDonald's Be The Sizzle campaign from 2009–2010, and Radio Shack's Holiday Hero campaign in 2010).

Douglas is the voice of Chase in The Hub's Transformers: Rescue Bots.

In addition to his commercial and video game voice over work, he also does many voice overs for the non-profit progressive research and information center Media Matters for America.[7]

[edit] Politics

D.C. Douglas in Tea Party PSA

In April, 2010, Douglas came under fire from the Tea Party movement for a phone call he made to Freedomworks in which he left an inflammatory voice mail. A day later GEICO dropped him from the new "shocking news" series of internet commercials that were in post-production.[8] This led to some debate in the voice over community about whether announcers were public figures.[9] Douglas responded by producing a mock Tea Party PSA for YouTube that was subsequently broadcast on Joy Behar's HLN show with Douglas as a guest.[10]

The experience spurred Douglas to continue creating short political videos, the majority of which are satirical. Most viewed were his Burn A Koran Day video (posted by The Huffington Post[11]) and his Why #OccupyWallStreet? video (aired on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell[12] and posted on the MoveOn.org[13] and Daily Kos[14] websites).

In November, 2011, D.C. Douglas tweeted out a quote from a Tower Heist Q & A at the ArcLight Hollywood where Brett Ratner made a disparaging remark about homosexuals. The Hollywood Reporter subsequently reported Douglas' tweet as the beginning of a controversy which led to Ratner stepping down from the 2012 Oscars. [15]

[edit] Television highlights

[edit] Anime highlight

[edit] Video game highlights

[edit] Further reading

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d "Biography". D.C. Douglas. http://www.dcdouglas.net. Retrieved December 19, 2010. 
  2. ^ "Additional links". The Lotus Path. http://www.thelotuspath.org/lotus_links.html. Retrieved December 16, 2010. 
  3. ^ Grace Hathaway
  4. ^ Joe and Guin Miller Archives for the Theosophical Society-San Francisco Lodge
  5. ^ "The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller". Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. http://web.archive.org/web/20060908092342/http://www.ruhaniat.org/lineage/JoeBio.php. Retrieved 2007-01-17. 
  6. ^ Hit-The-Fan Productions
  7. ^ http://www.dcdouglas.org/year-review-voiceover-dc-douglas/
  8. ^ "D.C. Douglas, Former Geico Voice Actor, Fires Back At FreedomWorks (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. May 17, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/dc-douglas-freedomworks-geico_n_578257.html. 
  9. ^ http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/04/27/geico-announcer-loses-job-by-voicing-opinion/
  10. ^ "CNN.com". CNN. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1005/18/joy.01.html. 
  11. ^ "'Burn A Quran Day' Commercial: Terry Jones, Fred Phelps Mocked In Parody Ad (VIDEO) (NSFW)". Huffington Post. September 10, 2010. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/burn-a-quran-day-commerci_n_711715.html. 
  12. ^ http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/11/8278347-warren-talks-financial-panic-cycle
  13. ^ http://front.moveon.org/this-powerful-clip-is-exactly-why-we-support-occupywallstreet/
  14. ^ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/09/1024636/-UPDATE:-OWS:-Take-this-video-VIRAL,-NOW!
  15. ^ Lewis, Andy. "Meet the Man Whose Tweet Brought Down Brett Ratner". The Hollywood Reporter. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brett-ratner-tweet-oscar-controversy-259473. 

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