Steve Blum

Steven Blum
Born	Steven Jay Blum April 28, 1965 Santa Monica, California
Other names	Daniel Andrews, Steve Bloom, Steven J. Blum, Steven Blum, Steve Blum, Roger Canfield, Richard Cardona, Steven Jay, Brandon Jeremy, David Lucas, Andrew Watton
Occupation	Voice Actor
Agent	Arlene Thornton
Notable credit(s)	The Big O as Roger Smith Cowboy Bebop as Spike Spiegel Digimon as Guilmon/J.P. Shibayama/Kenta Kitagawa/Mitsuo Yamaki Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children/Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII as Vincent Valentine Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as The Laughing Man Naruto as Orochimaru/Zabuza Momochi Rurouni Kenshin as Shishio Makoto Samurai Champloo as Mugen Ben 10 as Heatblast/Ghostfreak/Vilgax Megas XLR as Jamie Vandread as Duelo Mcfile S-CRY-ED asKazuma Transformers: Robots in Disguise asDark Scream/W.A.R.S Toonami as the hostTOM

Steven Jay Blum (born April 28, 1965) is a voice actor known primarily for his work in anime dubs and video games.

Fans of Cartoon Network's Toonami can recognize Blum's voice as the TOM, the block's robotic host. He was also recently heard in a Geico commercial and was the voice of 7-Eleven's "Oh thank heaven" television and radio advertisements.

Known Roles

Anime Roles

• Battle Athletes as Headmaster Grant Oldman
• Battle B-Daman as Cain McDonnell, Meowmigos, Ababa
• Bastard as Ninja Master Gara (credited as David Lucas)
• The Big O as Roger Smith
• Chobits as Hiroyasu Ueda
• Cowboy Bebop as Spike Spiegel
• Daigunder as Professor Hajime Akebono
• Digimon Adventure 02 as Flamedramon, Raidramon, BlackWarGreymon
• Digimon Tamers as Guilmon, Mitsuo Yamaki, Kenta Kitagawa
• Digimon Frontier as J.P. Shibayama
• Dinozaurs as Drago Wing
• Duel Masters 2.0 as Chill, Extreme Bucketman, Kyoshiro Kokujo
• Fist of the North Star (TV series) as Shin of the Nanto Seiken
• FLCL as Miyu Miyu, Masashi
• Fushigi Yūgi as various voices
• Great Teacher Onizuka as Eikichi Onizuka
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex as The Laughing Man
• Guyver as Agito Makishima
• Gungrave as Ballardbird Lee, Escort, and Lightning Thug #3
• Gundam 0080 as Al's Father
• .hack//Legend of the Twilight as Sanjuro
• Idaten Jump as
• IGPX as Cunningham Hume
• Initial D as K.T. Takahashi
• Kikaider as Saburo/Hakkaider
• Last Exile as Vincent Arthai
• Love Hina as Masayuki Haitani
• Macross II: Lovers Again as Maj. Nexx and Lord Feff
• Macross Plus as Marge Gueldoa
• Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden as Toh Ryuga
• Metropolis as Acetylene Lamp
• Mobile Suit Gundam" Movie Trilogy as Char Aznable
• Naruto as Zabuza Momochi, Orochimaru
• Outlaw Star as various extras including a tv reporter
• Planetes as Kho Cheng-Shin
• Rurouni Kenshin as Makoto Shishio
• S-CRY-ed as Kazuma
• Samurai Champloo as Mugen
• Scrapped Princess as Luke Storm
• Shinzo as Sago and Eilis
• Street Fighter Alpha as Ken
• Street Fighter II: The Movie as T. Hawk
• Street Fighter II V as Dhalsim
• Super Dimension Fortress Macross II: Lovers, Again as Lord Feff
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise as Dark Scream, W.A.R.S.
• Trigun as Leader of the Roderick Thieves
• Vandread as Duero McFile
• Witch Hunter Robin as Akio Kurosawa
• Wolf's Rain as Darcia
• X-TV as Aoki Seiichirou

Non-Anime Roles

• Ben 10 as Heatblast, Ghostfreak, Vilgax
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law as Yakky Doodle
• Megas XLR as Jamie
• My Life as a Teenage Robot as Smytus, Additional Voices
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Additional Voices
• Toonami (Cartoon Network Block) as the host, TOM
• W.I.T.C.H. as Blunk, Raythor, Kurt
• Fairly Oddparents as Truant Officer Shallowgrave

Movie Roles

• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie as Spike Spiegel
• Digimon: The Movie as Poromon, Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon, Computer Voice #1
• Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children as Vincent Valentine
• Lilo & Stitch as Additional Voices
• What the Bleep Do We Know!? as Various Character voices
• "Ah! My Goddess: The Movie" as Celestin

Documentaries

• Adventures in Voice Acting - Himself

Video games

• .hack//INFECTION as Sanjuro, Wiseman
• .hack//MUTATION as Sanjuro, Wiseman
• .hack//OUTBREAK as Sanjuro, Wiseman
• .hack//QUARANTINE as Sanjuro, Wiseman
• .hack//G.U. as Yata
• Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War as Captain Jack Bartlett, Vincent Harling (uncredited)
• Ape Escape 3 as Monkey Yellow
• Ape Escape Academy as Monkey Yellow, Yellow Pipotron
• Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits as Volk
• Atelier Iris as Arlin
• ATV Offroad Fury 4 - Voice Over and Motion Capture talent
• The Bouncer as Kou Leifoh
• Brave Fencer Musashi as Jon (Colonel Capricciola)
• Bushido Blade 2 as Gengoro
• Call of Duty as Cpt. Foley
• Castlevania: Curse of Darkness as Count Dracula
• The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay as Rust
• Command & Conquer: Generals as Various voices
• Company of Heroes as Intel and Base Commander
• Crash Nitro Kart as Crash Bandicoot and Emperor Velo the 27th
• Death by Degrees as Narrator and Enrique Ortega (English and Japanese voices)
• Dead Rising as Cliff Hudson, Roger Hall, Additional Voices
• Destroy All Humans! as Mutated Majestic Agents, Loudspeaker Voice in Area 51
• Digimon Rumble Arena as Reapermon
• Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII as Vincent Valentine
• Digital Devil Saga as Gale
• Doom 3 as various guards, scientists, and zombies
• Dynasty Warriors 4 as Sun Jian and Xiahou Yuan
• Dynasty Warriors 5 as Sun Jian and Xiahou Yuan
• Final Fantasy XII as Ba'Gamnan
• Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter as Scott Mitchell
• God of War as Ares
• Ground Control II as K´haunir Vicath and G´hall Vicath
• Guild Wars Prophecies as Justiciar Hablion and as the male lead character
• Guild Wars Factions as the male lead character
• Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes as Maximillian Berger
• Gungrave Overdose as Bunji Kugashira, Zell Condorbrave, and Fangoram
• Justice League Heroes as White Martian Leader
• Killer7 as Kenjiro Matsuoka, Benjamin Keane
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance as Wolverine
• Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes as various guards
• Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops as Gene
• Mission Impossible: Operation Surma as Ethan Hunt
• Nano Breaker as Keith Spencer
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja as Orochimaru and Zabuza
• Neo Contra as Master Contra
• Never Winter Nights: Original Campaign only as Daelan Red Tiger
• Omega Boost as various voices
• Phantom Brave as Walnut
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow: Joshamee Gibbs, Black Smoke James, Gibbs, Spanish Soldier, Cursed Pirates 1, 2, & 4
• Pitfall: The Lost Expedition as Pitfall Harry
• Psychonauts as G-Men/Lungfish Zealot/Tiger
• Quake 4 as various space marines
• Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire as Abduel/Andre/Kokeeno Pookameeso/Magnum Opus/Salim
• Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando as the Thugs-4-Less Leader
• Rogue Galaxy as Zegram Ghart
• Samurai Warriors as Keiji Maeda (uncredited)
• Samurai Western as "Ralph"
• SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy SEALs as Mark Tepper
• SOCOM U.S. Navy SEALs: Combined Assault as Mark Tepper
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 2 as Mark Tepper
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time as Schweimer
• Star Wars: Battlefront II as various Rebel soldiers
• Star Wars: Empire at War as the Imperial advisor
• Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast as Reborn Jedi, Galak Fyyar
• The Battle for Middle Earth II - Additional Voices
• The Dig as Dr. Ludger Brink and Cocytan leader
• Urban Reign as Brad Hawk
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines as Andrei/Courier/Sabbat
• Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra as Canaan / Professor / Sellers
• X-Men Legends as Wolverine
• X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse as Wolverine and Omega Red.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault as Imperial Guard Assassin (not credited)

Directing

Steven Blum also works as the Associate Director for Whose Line is it Anyway?

Aliases

For several years, Blum has used several pseudonyms in non-union productions, the most commonly-known being David Lucas. Blum actively denies 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.

Blum has worked under several aliases:

• David Lucas
• Daniel Andrews
• Roger Canfield
• Roger Smith (the name of Blum's character in The Big O)
• Richard Cardona
• Andrew Watton
• Steven Jay
• Steve Blum
• Steven J. Blum

External links

• Steven Blum at IMDb
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• Steve Blum ({{{type}}}) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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• Anime convention appearances
• A letter from "Lucas" to a fansite