Kirk Thornton

Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese animated series.

Kirk Thornton
Other names	Ron Allen[1][2] Sparky Thornton[3] Spanky Roberts Donald Lee
Alma mater	University of Washington[4]
Occupations	Voice actor ADR director script writer
Years active	1979–present
Spouse	Julie Nesbitt[5]
Children	2[4]
Website	kirkthornton.com (archived)

Career

His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave, Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi, Klein in Sword Art Online, Jin in Samurai Champloo, Anavel Gato in Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin, Jet Link in Cyborg 009, Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.^[6]

In early February 1989, Thornton appeared as a contestant on the game show Classic Concentration.^[7][8]

Personal life

Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt.^[5] Together they have two children.^[4]

Filmography

Anime

List of English dubbing performances in anime

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][9]
1991	Zillion: Burning Night	Big Odama
1992	Fight! Iczer-One	Teacher		As Sparky Thornton
1993	Doomed Megalopolis	Doctor
	The Cockpit	Ensign Nogami
1995	Crimson Wolf	Professor Shagdol
1997	Street Fighter II V	Guile			[10]
	Super Pig	Milton Massen
	Black Jack	Black Jack
1998	Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory	Anavel Gato		As Sparky Thornton	[10]
	Fushigi Yūgi	Hotohori
1999	Serial Experiments Lain	Masami Eiri			[10]
	Perfect Blue	Yamashiro		As Sparky Thornton, grouped under Voice Cast	[11]
	Cowboy Bebop	Steve, Asimov Solensan
1999–2001	Digimon: Digital Monsters	Gabumon, Mummymon, others		Adventure/02/Tamers
2000	The Castle of Cagliostro	Count Lazare do Cagliostro		As Sparky Thornton. In the 1992 English dub of the film, he voiced Gendarme Captain Gustav and the Archbishop.
2001	Rurouni Kenshin	Hajime Saito		As Sparky Thornton	[3]
	Transformers: Robots in Disguise	Dr. Onishi
2002	Love Hina	Seta Noriyasu		As Ronald Allen	[12]
	Digimon Frontier	Tsunomon, Gabumon, Karatenmon			[13]
	Gundress		ADR director
	Cosmo Warrior Zero		ADR director
	Ys	Ruta Gemma, Kaita		Credited as Ron Allen and Sparky Thornton	[14]
2003	Ys II: Castle in the Heavens	Darm, Ruta Gemma		Credited as Ron Allen	[15]
	s-CRY-ed		ADR director
	Heat Guy J	Ken Edmundo
2004	Duel Masters	Black Knight
	Wolf's Rain	Leara's father
	Gad Guard		ADR director
	Gungrave	Brandon Heat / Beyond the Grave		As Ron Allen	[1]
	Tsukihime		ADR director
	Mobile Suit Gundam F91	Sam Ehrug
	Sky Blue	Cade			[10]
2005	Otogi Zoshi		ADR director
	Planetes	Hachirota
	Mars Daybreak		ADR director
	IGPX	Mark		TV series
	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG	Kuze
2005–06	Samurai Champloo	Jin		Grouped under English Voice Cast
2005–09	Naruto	Kisame Hoshigaki, Tazuna, others	ADR director (episodic)
2006	Eureka Seven	Matthieu			[10]
	Kannazuki no Miko	Girochi	Voice Director		[16]
	Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo	Don Patch
	Fate/stay night	Kiritsugu Emiya			[17]
2006–13	Bleach	Narrator, Zennosuke Kurumadni, others	ADR director, ADR script		[18]
2007	Digimon Data Squad	Homer Yushima			[13]
	Afro Samurai	Various
2008	Blue Dragon	Minotaur	ADR director (episodic)
	Code Geass	Kaname Ohgi
	Strait Jacket	George Thomson			[19]
2009	Monster	The Baby, others
2009–13	Stitch!	Hämsterviel, Suzuki, others			[20]
2009–18	Naruto: Shippuden	Kisame Hoshigaki, Fukasaku, Shukaku, others
2012–14	Monsuno	Beyal
2012	Persona 4: The Animation	Kinshiro Morooka			[10]
	The Testament of Sister New Devil	Jin Toujou
2012–present	Blue Exorcist	Shiro Fujimoto, Satan, Ukemochi			[21]
2013	B-Daman Crossfire	Goichiro Tsukinowa / Grizz Sukino			[10]
	K	Daikaku Kokujoji, Yujiro Benzai, Saburota Bandom, Prime Minister, Yo Chitose			[22]
2013–15	Digimon Fusion	Tactimon, AxeKnightmon, Leviamon, Kabukimon, others
2013–present	Sword Art Online	Klein/Ryōtarō Tsuboi		3 TV seasons and a movie	[23]
	The Jungle Bunch	Maurice			[10]
2014	Blood Lad		ADR director		[24]
2014–19	Sailor Moon	Sakiko's Father (ep. 20), Takao (ep. 95), Katsutoshi Yamada (ep. 98), Dr. Gia/Sailor Doctor (ep. 185), Jotaro Kiriyama/Sailor Antique (ep. 186)		Viz Media dub
2015	Coppelion	Mitsuo Kawabata			[25]
	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin	Ramba Ral			[26]
	Durarara!!×2		ADR director	Directed the first part called Shō with Patrick Seitz	[27][28][29]
	BlazBlue Alter Memory	Jubei			[10][30]
2015–16	Aldnoah.Zero	Saazbaum			[31]
2016	One-Punch Man	Snek, Sitch, Fukegao, and Frog-Man			[32]
	March Comes In like a Lion	Kai Shimada			[33]
2017	Hunter x Hunter	Dalzollene		2011 series	[34]
	Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day	Atsushi Yadomi			[35]
2018	The Seven Deadly Sins	Galand
2018–2020	Baki	Yujiro		Netflix ONA	[10]
2019–present	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	Hand Demon, Tanjuro Kamado			[36][37]
2020–21	Boruto: Naruto Next Generations	Shukaku
2020	Marvel Future Avengers	Arnim Zola, Scragg, Councilman Reiner, Narrator			[10]
	Drifting Dragons	Ura
	Dorohedoro	Narrator
	Great Pretender	Seiji Ozaki			[10]
2021	Kuroko's Basketball	Masaaki Nakatani			[10]
	Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire	Inspector Ginzo Nakamori
2021–23	Vinland Saga	Askeladd		Netflix dub
2021	The Faraway Paladin	Gus			[38]
2022	Vampire in the Garden	Largo			[10]
	Fate/Grand Carnival	James Moriarty			[39]
	Cyberpunk: Edgerunners	Jimmy Kurosaki			[10]
2022–present	Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War	Zennosuke Kurumadni, Rojuro Ohtoribashi, Hiyosu
2023	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel – Northern War	Bleublanc (ep. 7)
	Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre	Tagaisu ("Four x Four Walls"; ep. 4a), Rogi ("Mold"; ep. 6a), Additional Voices
	Mashle: Magic and Muscles	Regro Burnedead			[10]
2023–24	Jujutsu Kaisen	Atsuya Kusakabe, Narrator
2023	Pluto	Schelling, The Doctor			[40]
	Onimusha	Matsuki Kensuke			[10]
	Akuma-kun	Saito
2024	Mission: Yozakura Family	Ban Yozakura
	Dandadan	Juichi Kito
2025	Sakamoto Days	Pizza Nakajima, Yutaro's Father

Animation

List of voice performances in animation

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][9]
2007	Edgar and Ellen	Mayor
2009	Huntik: Secrets & Seekers	DeFoe
	Superman: Red Son	Jimmy Olsen, Batman, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, Pyotr Roslov		Web series	Tweet[10]
	Spectrobes	Commander Grant
2012	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Adam Warlock		Episode: "Michael Korvac"	[10]
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	King Sanjay Rash, others		3 episodes
2013	Mad	Matt Hooper, Spock		Episode: "Old Spock's Off Their Spockers"	[10]
2014	Clarence	Buckey O'Neil
2014–17	Sonic Boom	Orbot, Shadow the Hedgehog, various voices			[41][6]
2019	Love, Death & Robots	Old Man		Episode: "Fish Night"	[10]
2019-Present	Pucca: Love Recipe	Uncle Dumpling, Bruce
2020	The Idhun Chronicles	Ashran

Films

List of voice and English dubbing performances in feature films

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][9]
2000	Digimon: The Movie	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon and Omnimon (Shared)		English dub	[10]
2004	What the Bleep Do We Know!?	Voice Over Talent			[42]
2016–2018	Digimon Adventure tri.	Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon (shared), Tsunomon		English dub	[43]
2016	Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV	Newscaster			[10]
2019	The Queen's Corgi	Donald Trump		US dub
2020	Ni no Kuni	Teacher		English dub
	Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna	Gabumon, Garurumon, WereGarurumon, Tsunomon, Omnimon (Shared), Gabumon (Bond of Friendship)			[44]
2021	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train	Tanjuro Kamado			[10]

List of voice and English dubbing performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][9]
1994	Dirty Pair: Project Eden	Boss
1995	Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie	Guile		As Donald Lee; English dub	[10]
1998	Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie	Hiei		As Sean Thornton; English dub
1999	Black Jack: The Movie	Black Jack
	Perfect Blue	Yamashiro		As Sparky Thornton
2001	Akira	Various		As Sparky Thornton, Animaze/Pioneer dub
2008	Resident Evil: Degeneration	President		English dub
2009	Happily N'Ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ the Apple	Munk			[10][18]
2013	Tiger & Bunny: The Rising	Muramasa Kaburagi		English dub	[45]
	The Snow Queen	Housemaster			[10]
2014	The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale	Jojo
2015	The Nutcracker Sweet	Drosselmeyer, Commander, Mice		Peruvian film
2017	The Swan Princess: Royally Undercover	Antonio, Mechanic
	The Jungle Bunch	Maurice		English dub
	The Son of Bigfoot	Japanese Man #1 (a.k.a. Asian Investor #1)		Belgian-French film
2024	Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon		English dub	[46]

List of motion capture performances in direct-to-video and television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2012	Resident Evil: Damnation	Ivan Judanovich / Ataman		[47]

Live-action dubbing

List of English dubbing performances in live-action series

Year	Title	Country	Dubbed from	Role	Original actor	Source[2]
2016	Marseille	France	French	Farid	Hedi Bouchenafa	[48]

Video games

List of voice and English dubbing performances in video games

Year	Title	Role	Crew role	Notes	Source[2][9]
1998	Brave Fencer Musashi	Ed			[10]
1999	Rugrats: Studio Tour	Tour Guide (Larry), Security Guard (Steve), Pirate Director, Racetrack Announcer
2000	Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise From the Ashes	Leung Lee-Fai	as Sparky Thorton		[49]
	Silent Bomber	John Loss		as Sparky Thornton	[50]
2001	The Bouncer	Commander			[10]
	Kessen II	Cao Cao			[2]
2002	Digimon Rumble Arena	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon, Omnimon			[10]
2003	.hack//Infection	Orca			[10]
	Dynasty Warriors series	Xiahou Dun, Meng Huo		From 4 to 8	[2]
	Mission: Impossible – Operation Surma	Simon Algo, George Spelvin
	Front Mission 4	Billy Renges			[2]
2004	.hack//Quarantine	Orca			[10]
	Resident Evil Outbreak: File 2	Kevin Ryman			[2]
2004	Scaler	Bootcamp
	World of Warcraft	Various
2005	Xenosaga Episode II	Capt. Matthews			[10]
	Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard	Various voices
	JumpStart Reading	Trash Can, Trash Can't
2006	Kingdom Hearts II	Saïx		Also Final Mix	[10][51]
	Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked	Jin	Voice director
	Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII	Various			[52]
	Enchanted Arms		Voice director
	Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra	Capt. Matthews			[10]
	Company of Heroes	Various
	Baten Kaitos Origins	Shanath		English dub	[10]
	Tales of the Abyss	Jade Curtiss
2006–07	.hack//G.U. series	Negimaru, Antares, Azure Orca
2007	Rogue Galaxy	Cancer King, Various	Voice director
	Ghost Rider	Mephisto
	Spectrobes	Commander Grant
	Kane & Lynch: Dead Men	Various			[18]
	Digimon World Data Squad	Lucemon, Creepymon, Commander Homer Yushima			[10]
	Time Crisis 4		Voice director
2007–11	WWE SmackDown vs. Raw/WWE		Voice director	2008–12 versions	[20]
2007–14	Naruto games	Kisame Hoshigaki, Mifune, Foo, others		Starting with Ultimate Impact
2008	Race Driver: Grid	Pit Chief
	Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader		Voice director for Jeff Foxworthy
	Spider-Man: Web of Shadows	Various
	Call of Duty: World at War	Marine
	Endwar	Various
	Biohazard: Degeneration	President
	The Tale of Despereaux		Guest Director
2009	The Lord of the Rings: Conquest	Grim Wormtongue			[10]
	Hotel for Dogs		Voice director
	Monsters vs. Aliens	Various			[18]
	Red Faction: Guerrilla	MacReady	Additional Voice Over Direction	Voice roles grouped as "Also with"	[18][53]
	Dirt 2		Voice director
	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2	Electro, others			[18]
	Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days	Saïx (No. VII)			[10]
	Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising	Saber	Additional Voice Direction, Casting Director		[54]
	Magna Carta 2	Nix			[10]
	Dragon Age: Origins	Various			[18]
	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	Col. Marshall
	Silent Hill: Shattered Memories	Harry Mason
2010	Final Fantasy XIII	Cocoon Inhabitants		English dub	[55]
	Resonance of Fate	Juris			[10]
	Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep	Isa
	Hot Wheels Racing Circuit	Ace Turner			[18]
2010–present	Sonic the Hedgehog games	Shadow the Hedgehog, Orbot, others	Main role	Grouped under English character voices
2011	DC Universe Online	Superman, Calculator
	Catherine	Thomas Mutton/Dumuzid			[10]
2012	Binary Domain	Yoji Amada, Mifune
	Battleship	Captain Willie Perozzi
	Guild Wars 2	Various			[18]
	Resident Evil 6	BSAA			[10]
2013	Fire Emblem Awakening	Yen'fay		English dub
	Gears of War: Judgment	COG News Reporter, COG Announcer, Survivor Six			[56]
	Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix	Saïx (No. VII)			[10]
2014	Earth Defense Force 2025	Midnight Pilot, Ranger 3			[57]
	Digimon All-Star Rumble	Gabumon, MetalGarurumon/Omnimon			[10]
	Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix	Saïx (No. VII)
2015	Xenoblade Chronicles X	Maurice Chausson
2016	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II	Bleublanc		Uncredited
2017	Friday the 13th: The Game	Mitch Floyd
	Horizon Zero Dawn	Hishavan
	Octopath Traveler	Additional voices			[58]
2019	Kingdom Hearts III	Saïx	Main role	English dub/ADR Director	[10]
	Judgment	Kaoru Ichinose		English dub	[59]
2020	One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows	"Snakebite" Snek			[10]
	Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise	The Mirror
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II	Bleublanc		Credited as Ron Allen
	Yakuza: Like a Dragon	Additional voices		English dub	[60]
2021	Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139...	Sebastian, additional voices			[61]
	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster	Additional voices			[62]
	Call of Duty: Vanguard	Additional voices
	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles	Tanjuro Kamado, Hand Demon, Akaza			[63]
	Shin Megami Tensei V	Zeus			[10]
2022	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	Additional voices			[64]
2023	Trinity Trigger	Ionia Simmons, Dolk		English dub	[10]
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie	Soldiers & Citizens of Zemuria			[65]
	Mato Anomalies	Francois, Young Man, Kalpa Monk			In-game credits
	Starfield	Benjamin Bayu
2024	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	Additional voices		English dub	[66]
	Persona 3 Reload	Igor			[10]
	Unicorn Overlord	Conrad, Great Sage of Bastorias, Mercenaries (Type F), additional voices		English dub; credited as Kirk Allen	[67]
	Farmagia	Zucchero		English dub; credited as Ron Allen	[10]
2025	Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii	Additional voices		English dub	[68]

Other voice work

• iLife 08 apps^[18]