James Arnold Taylor

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James Arnold Taylor
Born James Arnold Taylor
July 22, 1969 (1969-07-22) (age 40)
Santa Barbara, California
Occupation Voice Actor
Spouse(s) Allison Taylor
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James Arnold Taylor (born July 22, 1969, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American voice actor and the current voice provider for Fred Flintstone and Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars Clone Wars series.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Notable roles

He provides the English voice work in Squaresoft's popular video game, Final Fantasy X, as the voice of Tidus. He is also known as the voice of Ratchet in the popular Ratchet & Clank video game series from Insomniac Games, (except for the original game, in which Ratchet was voiced by Mikey Kelley); as well as Leonardo from TMNT. Taylor's other large roles include the role of Wooldoor Sockbat on the Comedy Central animated series Drawn Together, voice acting for both Captain Jack Sparrow and Timon in Kingdom Hearts II, and providing the voices for many characters in The Animatrix. He reprises his role as Tidus in the action/fighting game Dissidia: Final Fantasy. He also starred in the 2004 mockumentary Comic Book: The Movie, his only live action role to date. He played the role of the Agori Berix in the recent direct-to-DVD film, BIONICLE: The Legend Reborn.

[edit] Star Wars

James Arnold Taylor is very notable for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars: Clone Wars series as the voice double for Ewan McGregor, as well as the video game adaptation of the series. Prior to this, he was the voice of Obi-Wan in the video game adaption of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and in Star Wars Battlefront II.

[edit] Fred Flintstone

Also, he is the current voice of Fred Flintstone in commercials featuring the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character (i.e., Midas car care; Cocoa Pebbles cereal, etc.). He also voiced Fred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Drawn Together.

[edit] Marvel Comics

He also is the voice of Iceman in Marvel and Activision's games, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance; the voice of Quentin Beck/Mysterio in the video game version of Spider-Man 2; and the voice of Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Battle for New York and Spider-Man: Friend or Foe.

[edit] DC Comics

James is voice-acting as Green Arrow in the new Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon, on Cartoon Network. He also voice-acted as Guy Gardner.

[edit] As a voice double

Taylor has also worked as a voice double for actors such as David Spade, Johnny Depp, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor, and Christopher Walken.

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See also: Green Goblin in other media · Spider-Man enemies in other media
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