Gray Haddock

{{short description|American actor and producer}}

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Gray G. Haddock is an American actor and film producer. He is the former head of animation at Rooster Teeth, a production studio in Austin, Texas, where he created the 2019 mecha web series Gen:Lock. He is known for voice roles such as Locus and Roman Torchwick in the Rooster Teeth productions Red vs. Blue and RWBY, respectively, as well as Sanosuke Sagara in the English dub of Rurouni Kenshin, Oreldo in Pumpkin Scissors, and Yousuke Fuuma from Wedding Peach.

Career

Gray Haddock graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

Haddock received his first voice acting credit in 1995. He acted for many years, primarily as a voice actor in English dubbed versions of Japanese anime. In 1997, he was cast as Sanosuke Sagara in the film Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots, a role which he reprised in the 2001 film Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection and the Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc two-film series in 2011 and 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/voice-compare/Rurouni-Kenshin/Sanosuke-Sagara/|title=Voice Compare: Rurouni Kenshin – Sanosuke Sagara|date=November 17, 2009|work=Behind The Voice Actors|access-date=December 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629132154/http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/voice-compare/Rurouni-Kenshin/Sanosuke-Sagara/|archive-date=June 29, 2013|quote=And last but not quite the least is VA Gray G. Haddock who voiced Sanosuke in ADV's handiwork on Ruroni Kenshin namely Samurai X Reflection and he is not that bad.|url-status=live}} In 1998, he played the role of Lei Wulong in Tekken: The Motion Picture.{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2000-10-13/78897/|title=Postmarks: 'Tekken' Produced in Austin|last=Lipkowitz|first=Gary|date=October 13, 2000|work=The Austin Chronicle|access-date=December 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220103848/http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2000-10-13/78897/ |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |quote=It features the phenomenally talented voices of John Paul Shepard, Adam Dudley, David Stokey, Edi Patterson, Gray Haddock, Claire Hamilton, Ellie McBride, Jessica Robertson, Ken Webster, Mark O'Brien, Jessie Schwartz, and Douglas Taylor (among others).}}

File:RTX 2015 - Miles Luna and Gray Haddock (20437232492).jpg 2015]]

In August 2011, Haddock was hired by Rooster Teeth as a visual effects artist and digital compositor working on season 9 of Red vs. Blue.{{cite web|url=http://roosterteeth.com/post/2874183|title=Greetings and salutations...|last=Haddock|first=Gray|year=2012|publisher=Rooster Teeth|access-date=December 5, 2016|quote=I started here at RT last year, working as a VFX artist / digital compositor on the CG sequences of RvB season 9, around... ep10, I think?|archive-url=https://archive.today/20161212181230/http://roosterteeth.com/post/2874183|archive-date=December 12, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/gray.haddock/posts/10210213263672124|title=5 years ago today I had a call...|last=Haddock|first=Gray|publisher=Facebook|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=December 28, 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180625031919/https://www.facebook.com/gray.haddock/posts/10210213263672124|archive-date=June 25, 2018|url-status=live}} He then worked on season 10 of Red vs. Blue and, in 2013, he took on a voice acting position as Roman Torchwick in Rooster Teeth's animated series, RWBY.{{cite web|url=https://www.vavel.com/en-us/television/608855-a-fans-perspective-rwby-volume-3-unanswered-questions.html|title=A Fan's Perspective – RWBY Volume 3 Unanswered Questions|last=Distler|first=Anthony|date=February 21, 2016|work=VAVEL.com|access-date=December 7, 2016}} He also took on the role of Locus in Red vs. Blue, a character that debuted in Season 11.

In 2014, Haddock co-starred in the two-hander play Venus in Fur, opposite Molly Karrasch and directed by his wife Lara Toner.{{cite news |url=https://ctxlivetheatre.com/reviews/review-venus-in-fur-by-playhouse-san-antonio/ |title=Review: Venus in Fur by Austin Playhouse |first=Michael |last=Meigs |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311031657/https://ctxlivetheatre.com/reviews/review-venus-in-fur-by-playhouse-san-antonio/ |archive-date=March 11, 2018 |publisher=CTX Live Theatre}}

In 2014, Haddock worked as a producer on the second season of RWBY.{{cite web|url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131843-RWBY-Volume-2-Premiering-at-RTX-2014-First-Promo-Art-Available|title=RWBY Volume 2 Premiering at RTX 2014, First Promo Art Available|last=Smith|first=Carly|date=January 30, 2014|work=The Escapist|access-date=December 7, 2016 |quote=Its online premiere will happen shortly afterward, producer Gray Haddock announced. |archive-date=January 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131081909/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/131843-RWBY-Volume-2-Premiering-at-RTX-2014-First-Promo-Art-Available}} In September 2014, he became head of the newly-formed Rooster Teeth Animation department.{{cite web|url=http://www.wusa9.com/entertainment/rooster-teeth-animation-expanding/337592069|title=Rooster Teeth Animation moves to new building ahead of 'RWBY Volume 4'|last=Newton|first=Steve|date=October 18, 2016|work=WUSA9.com|access-date=December 7, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220072746/http://www.wusa9.com/entertainment/rooster-teeth-animation-expanding/337592069|url-status=dead}} When production started on its third season in 2015, Haddock became a co-director and producer for RWBY.{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2016-05-03/dvdanger-rwby-volume-iii/|title=DVDanger: RWBY Volume III: Team Rooster Teeth takes anime back to Japan – Screens|last=Whittaker|first=Richard|date=May 3, 2016|work=The Austin Chronicle|access-date=December 5, 2016}} In 2018, he became writer and director for a mecha series on Rooster Teeth, Gen:Lock.{{cite web |website=Collider |url=http://collider.com/gen-lock-trailer-rooster-teeth/ |title=Exclusive: First Trailer for 'gen:LOCK' Reveals Rooster Teeth's Biggest Series Since 'RWBY' |first=Dave |last=Trumbore |date=January 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091545/http://collider.com/gen-lock-trailer-rooster-teeth/ |archive-date=January 30, 2018}} In June 2019, following complaints from his former employees regarding negative working conditions, Haddock stepped down as the head of RT Animation to fulfill a strictly creative role.{{cite web|last=Hullum|first=Matt|year=2019|title=Our response to the recent Reddit thread about RT Animation|url=https://roosterteeth.com/post/52037952|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20190617165825/https://roosterteeth.com/post/52037952|archive-date=17 June 2019|access-date=August 21, 2019|publisher=Rooster Teeth|quote=Effective today, we are moving forward with a previously planned change in our producing and creative structure. Gray G. Haddock is stepping down as head of studio for animation to dedicate himself to a strictly creative role.}} In September 2019, he announced he had left Rooster Teeth.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/graymartigan/status/1172586999347404801|title=Given some inquires, I feel I ought to relay I parted ways with RT recently. We've left the door open to the possibility of my doing creative work for them down the road. Meanwhile, I'm off to pursue new projects, and will keep you posted. I wish everyone in RTanim the best.|last=Haddock|first=Gray|date=2019-09-13|website=@graymartigan|language=en|access-date=2019-09-17}}

Filmography

= Voice acting =

{{cleanup|section|date=December 2016|reason=Many of the dates listed here are actually the Japanese release date, but Haddock actually only acted in the English versions.}}

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1995

| Wedding Peach

| Yousuke Fuuma

| TV series

1995

| Legend of Crystania

| Captain Chivalry, Grib

| Film

rowspan=2 | 1996

| Tattoon Master

| Hydra

| TV series

Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge

| Jubei Yagyu

| Film

rowspan=2 | 1997

| Sakura Diaries

| Mashtu Tatsuhiko

| TV series

Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots

| Sanosuke Sagara

| Film

1997–1998

| Ninja Resurrection

| Jubei Yagyu

| TV mini-series, 2 episodes

rowspan=2 | 1998

| Lost Universe

| Rando

| TV series

Tekken: The Motion Picture

| Lei Wulong

| Film

1998–1999

| Steam Detectives

| Le Bled

| TV series, 6 episodes

1999

| Hoshin Engi

| Hakuyuko

| TV series

rowspan=3 | 2001

| Z.O.E. Dolores, I

| Basilico Basilisk

| TV series, episode: "James no sainan"

Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection

| Sanosuke Sagara

| TV mini-series, 2 episodes

Conquest: Frontier Wars

| Turbine Doc, Blanus, Battleship

| Video game

2002

| Jing: King of Bandits

| Postino

| TV mini-series

rowspan=2 | 2003

| Kidô shinsengumi: Moe yo ken

| Ukon Tanaka

| Film

Deus Ex: Invisible War

| SSC Guard #2, Announcer #1

| Video game

2003–2004

| Wedding Peach

| Yousuke Fuuma/Viento

| TV series

rowspan=2 | 2004

| Ou Dorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven

| Postino

| Short film

Thief: Deadly Shadows

| Townspeople #3

| Video game

2005–2006

| Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor

| Archanfel

| TV series, 6 episodes

2006

| 009-1

| Loki

| TV series, 4 episodes

2006–2010

| Pumpkin Scissors

| Oreldo

| TV series, 24 episodes

2007

| Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

| Various soldiers

| Video game

2011

| DC Universe Online

| Green Lantern, Black Hand, Star Labs Scientist

| Video game

2011–2012

| Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc

| Sanosuke Sagara

| Film series, 2 films

2012–2019

| Red vs. Blue

| Locus, Donald Doyle, Resistance Soldier

| Web series

2013–2016

| RWBY

| Roman Torchwick

| Web series

2014–2015

| X-Ray and Vav

| Rusty Bonjour

| Web series, 5 episodes

2016

|My Hero Academia

|Electric Villain (additional voices)

|Anime, 1 episode

2016

|Luck and Logic

|Rentaro Tsurugi

|Anime

2016–2018

| RWBY Chibi

| Roman Torchwick

| Web series, 5 episodes

2019

| Gen:Lock

| Leon August

| Web series

2020

| Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy

| Spinister

| Animated series

= Live action =

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! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

2016–2018

| Fan Service

| Himself

| Podcast, 49 episodes

2017

| Million Dollars, But...

| Himself

| Web series, episode: "Theme Pack: Animation"

= Production =

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

rowspan=2 | 2011

| My Sucky Teen Romance

| Visual effects

| Film

Jeff, Who Lives at Home

| Visual effects

| Film

2011–2018

| Red vs. Blue

| Visual effects (until 2012)
Supervising producer (since 2014)

| Web series

2013–2018

| RWBY

| Editor, producer (since 2014), co-director (2015 to 2018)

| Web series

2014–2015

| X-Ray and Vav

| Producer (5 episodes)

| Web series

rowspan=2 | 2016–2019

| RWBY Chibi

| Supervising producer (6 episodes)

| Web series

Camp Camp

| Producer (5 episodes), writer (2 episodes)

| Web series

2019

| Gen:Lock

| Writer, director

| Web series

References

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