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Roger Craig Smith (born August 11, 1975, in St. Joseph, Michigan) is an American voice actor who's notable for his extremely versatile range. He can go from downright wacky and high-pitched to serious characters, even to Baritone of Strength/Evil Sounds Deep territory.
He is currently best known for Ezio Auditore in the Assassin's Creed series while set in Italy, Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins, Captain America in Marvel's animation lineup on Disney XD, Thomas in Regular Show, the titular role of Sonic the Hedgehog from 2010 onwards, and Chris Redfield of the Resident Evil franchise from 5 onwards.
Has a Twitter,
and seems to be a big fan of space and photography.
Notable roles include:
Anime
- Batman in Batman Ninja
- Biba Amatori in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress
- Byaku in Kekkaishi
- Captain America in Marvel Future Avengers
- Deidara in Naruto Shippuden
- Gilbert G.P. Guilford in Code Geass
- John Smith in Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045
- Kichi Goto in Patlabor: The Movie and Patlabor 2: The Movie (Bandai Visual dub)
- Kotaro Higashi/Ultraman Taro in Ultraman
- Manumaru in Aggretsuko
- Martin Reest in Monster
- Minoru Okabe in Suzume
- Shinji Hirako and Noba in Bleach
Live-Action Television
- The Announcer on Say Yes to the Dress
- Gudetama in Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure
- The Narrator on Hell's Kitchen from Seasons 13 to 14 (Yes, really)
Video Games
- Augustine in Cross Edge
- Batman in Batman: Arkham Origins
- Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 5, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, Resident Evil 6, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
- Eddy Gordo in Tekken 6
- Eliot Hooker/Wonder-Blue in The Wonderful 101
- Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, and Soulcalibur V
- Francesco Bernoulli and Captain America in Disney Infinity
- Kale Vandelay in Hi-Fi RUSH, plus SEB-AAA, The Narrator, and HG-0G
- Kyle Crane in Dying Light
- Mirage in Apex Legends
- Private Harrison Pike in Medal of Honor: Vanguard
- Siegfried Schtauffen in later Soulcalibur games (succeeding Crispin Freeman after III)
- Snorpington "Snorpy" Fizzlebean in Bugsnax
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2010-onwards) (replacing Jason Griffith)
- Dave the Intern, Morpho, Retro, and additional voices in Sonic Boom
- Unnamed player character ("Captain") in Blazing Angels
- Ted in Valkyria Chronicles
- Zagi in Tales of Vesperia
- Zhang Liao in Dynasty Warriors 6 to Dynasty Warriors 8 and Warriors Orochi 2 (replaced by Joshua Tomar in 8: Xtreme Legends)
- Dr. Nitrus Brio in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time
Western Animation
- Batman in Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts, its two sequels and Superman: Red Son
- Belson, Percy and additional voices in Clarence
- Bobby the Elder and Pinkeye in Harvey Street Kids
- Captain America in Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Avengers Assemble (also voices Grim Reaper, Radioactive Man, Torgo, Winter Soldier and additional voices), Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) (also voices Divak), Marvel's Spider-Man, and the Marvel Rising franchise (also voices Carl the donut shop owner)
- Captain Mar-Vell in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
- Chamberlain and an innkeeper in The Star
- Claggor in Arcane
- Diamondhead, Steam Smythe, and incidental characters in Ben 10 (2016)
- Baron Draxum on Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (replacing John Cena in season 2)
- Forge, Kamal, and Hellion in Wolverine and the X-Men (2009)
- Goose The Clown on The Rocketeer
- Guy Fieri on American Dad!
- Jasper, The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, and additional voices on Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
- Jetstorm, Slipstream, Airazor, and Blastwave in Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
- Kronis/Trap Jaw and General Dolos in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021)
- Luciano on Sofia the First
- Moose Boy in Carmen Sandiego
- Mouse and Moose in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Mr. Miracle in Justice League Action
- Prince Orm/Ocean-Master in Young Justice (2010)
- Party Animal on Bunnicula
- Prince Phillip in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
- The Pulverizer in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
- Richard and Hawkodile in Unikitty!
- Ripslinger in Planes
- Solomon Fleck, Officer Allen, and additional voices in LEGO City Adventures
- Sonic the Hedgehog in Wreck-It Ralph, Sonic Boom, and Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Taylor in Transformers: Rescue Bots
- Thomas and additional voices in Regular Show
- Warden Wrath, Jacob Hopkins, and additional voices in The Owl House
- Molly's father on T.O.T.S.
Tropes:
- 10-Minute Retirement: He announced his retirement from the Sonic the Hedgehog role on January 28th, 2021… and then announced he would continue voicing the character roughly four months later.
- Full Circle Portraying:
- He shares two roles in Diedrich Bader: Batman and the Masters of the Universe villain Trap Jaw (Bader in Masters of the Universe: Revelation and Smith in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021))
- He is one of the voices of Chris Redfield who voiced Captain America in several Marvel projects. Come Jeff Schine, who voiced Chris Redfield & Captain America later.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: His range is quite wide, varying from the brooding deep voice of Chris Redfield and Batman to the youthful and energetic cadence of Deidara and Sonic the Hedgehog, all the way up to the high-pitched and nasally Gudetama.
- Trolling Creator: On Valentine's Day 2020, the release date of a certain movie starring a character with whom he was closely associated, Roger tweeted a big announcement that he was "in the movie". He then posted a reply, saying he "forgot" to clarify that he was playing Batman in the Animated Original Movies adaptation of Superman: Red Son.
