Eddie Frierson (born November 22, 1959) is an American voice actor and writer. He has provided voices for such films as Wreck-It Ralph, Hotel Transylvania, The Princess and the Frog, ParaNorman, Curious George, Tangled the video games Medal of Honor: Airborne and Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes and the animated television series MÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance.
On the stage, he played Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson in the one-man show Matty: An Evening with Christy Mathewson.
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Life and career
Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Frierson has been doing voicework for many anime series and movies since the 1980s, and has also been a voice actor for two of Saban Entertainment's most well-known shows - the Power Rangers franchise and VR Troopers. While during his tenure in the Saban shows, he only did voicework for one-shot characters in the earlier years, he was able to play a major role in 2001's Power Rangers Time Force when he did the voice of the mad robot scientist Frax. After the PR franchise moved to New Zealand in 2003 (which laid off much of the PR crew, Frierson included), Frierson has continued to do voicework for various anime series such as .hack and Robotech, as well as voicework in animated children's movies such as Curious George, Chicken Little, and The Wild. He has also done voicework for different video game franchises, such as the Medal of Honor series.
Frierson's theater work includes roles such as Horatio in Mark Ringer's staging of Hamlet, and Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Nevada Shakespeare in the Park. He twice won the prestigious Maurice Scott Award for Los Angeles theatre for his performances as Dapper in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse and as Count Vronsky in Anna Karenina at Theatre Rapport. He also won a New England Drama Critic's award for his portrayal of the dim-witted Red Sox pitcher Tank in Steve Kluger's acclaimed nine-inning comedy, Bullpen.
Eddie was on Tic Tac DOugh in the 1985–86 season and won $4900 in cash.
Matty
Frierson's award-winning one-man show Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson, directed by fellow voice actor Kerrigan Mahan, is built around Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson. Frierson has taken the show across the country, including Off-Broadway in New York, and National Public Radio named it one of the 10 best shows of the New York theatre season. He won Drama-Logue Awards as both an actor and writer during the show's Los Angeles engagement. He has performed the show in Mathewson's hometown of Factoryville, Pennsylvania, at the pitcher's alma mater Bucknell University, and at the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Frierson has formed The Mathewson Foundation, dedicated to the preservation of American History through baseball. He plans to focus those efforts and locate the Foundation in Factoryville. Also in the works for Frierson are the first true biographies of Christy, both in book form and for the big screen.
Filmography
Anime
.hack - Additional Voices
3×3 Eyes: Legend of the Divine Demon - Yakumo Fujii (Streamline dub only)
The Adventures of Mini-Goddess - Blue Rat
Akira - Additional voices (credited as "Christopher Mathewson") (Streamline and Geneon dubs)
Babel II - Additional Voices
Battle Athletes - USSA Official
Battle Athletes Victory - Additional Voices
Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran - Crying Husband; Fisherman; Tokuji; Wandering Samurai
Casshan: Robot Hunter - Additional Voices
The Cockpit - Various
Cowboy Bebop - Space Warrior
Crying Freeman - Chen (Streamline Dub)
Digimon Adventure - Datamon
Dirty Pair: Project Eden - Plant Manager
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds - Aramis
Dragon Ball - Tenshinhan (Shinto) (Harmony Gold dub only)
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure - Various
El Hazard - Makoto Mizuhara
Fist of the North Star - Additional Voices
Non-anime
The Return of Dogtanian - Aramis
God, the Devil and Bob - Guest Star
Iznogoud - Various
Jin Jin and the Panda Patrol - Additional Voices
Oliver Twist - Additional Voices
Walter Melon - Additional Voices
Willy Fog 2 - Tico
Wisdom of the Gnomes - Additional Voices
Live-action
Cheers - 1st Customer
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Blue Globbor, Octophantom, Weldo (voices, uncredited)
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue - Strikning (voice)
Power Rangers Lost Galaxy - Ironite (voice)
Power Rangers Time Force - Frax (voice)
Power Rangers Turbo - Terror Tooth (voice, uncredited)
Power Rangers Zeo - Mechanizer (voice, uncredited)
Touched by an Angel - Announcer
VR Troopers - Gunslinger, Rollbot (voices)
Film
A Little Help - Parrot
Barnyard - Cow and Horse
Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter - Bigfoot Vocal Characterization
The Call - Additional Voices
Chicken Little - Male Bear
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 - Additional Voices
Curious George - Additional Voices
Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure - Shinto (Tien) (Harmony Gold dub)
Dr. Dolittle - Skunk (voice)
El Hazard: The Magnificent World - Makoto Mizuhara
El Hazard: The Magnificent World 2 - Makoto Mizuhara
El Hazard: The Alternative World - Makoto Mizuhara
Elysium - Various
Fly Me to the Moon - Commander Aldrin
From Up on Poppy Hill - Additional Voices (English version)
Frozen - Crowd Member #2
Going Under - Guy in Bar
Her Married Lover - Additional Voices
Hotel Transylvania - Additional Voices
Incredibles 2 - Additional Voices
Kiki's Delivery Service - Tombo (Streamline version only), Additional Voices (both Streamline & Disney dubs)
Video games
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War - Chopper
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War - Additional voices (English-dubbed version)
EverQuest II: Echoes of Faydwer - Mazkeen, Fae_1 emotes (male), Lyrech Human 2 (male)
Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb - Various
Kessen II - Li Dian (English-dubbed version)
Medal of Honor - Additional Voices
Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes - Yoshishige Satake (English-dubbed version)
Seven Samurai 20XX - Epsilon/Epsilon Doll (English-dubbed version)
Star Trek: Judgment Rites - Lucas, Lt. Kyle, Romulan
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary - Elasi Captain, Ens. Everts
Suikoden V - Isato, Roog (English-dubbed version)
Stage
Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson - Christy Mathewson
