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Richard Steven Horvitz
Horvitz at the 2014 SuperCon
Born	(1966-07-29) July 29, 1966 (age 52) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Residence	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Richard Horvitz Richard Wood
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1976–present
Spouse(s)	Kristen Lazarian
Children	3
Website	http://www.richardhorvitz.com/

Richard Steven Horvitz (born July 29, 1966),^[1] sometimes credited as Richard Wood, is an American actor and voice actor. In the world of animation, he has voiced mentally unstable and neurotic characters. He is known for his work voicing the original Alpha 5 in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo, Raz in Psychonauts, Kaos in the Skylanders series,^[2] Billy and his father Harold in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy,^[3]Grey Matter in Ben 10, Daggett in The Angry Beavers, Bumble in Kinectimals, the title character in Invader Zim,^[4] Mouth in Kick Buttowski, Orthopox in the Destroy All Humans! series, the Zoni in the Ratchet & Clank series, the Space Weaver in Broken Age and Lugosi in Bunnicula.

Personal life

Horvitz was born, grew up, resides and currently works in Los Angeles. Later, he taught voice acting and theater at the California State University, Northridge. He lives with his wife, playwright and screenwriter Kristen Lazarian, and their three sons: Cole, Jake and Wyatt. The couple's oldest of their three sons, Jake Elliot Horvitz (born April 11, 1997), was mentioned at an event promoting The Angry Beavers. He and Lazarian wrote an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy with the episode's storyboard artist C. H. Greenblatt, entitled "Keeper of the Reaper".

Career

Horvitz with autographed Invader Zim picture at JACON 2009 in Orlando, Florida

Horvitz first appeared in the 1976 Freshen Up Gum commercial, which led to other commercial appearances and several hand modeling jobs. After a brief stint in an off-Broadway production of Oliver!, he went on to make appearances on television seeies such as Kids Incorporated and Safe at Home and films, such as Summer School, How I Got Into College and Deadly Weapon.^[5] He also starred as Howie for two seasons on the 1988 syndicated television sitcom The Munsters Today which lasted three years until 1991. Howie was best friend of Marilyn Munster (played by actress Hilary Van Dyke). Starting in 1993, he changed the focus of his career to voice acting, starting with voice of Alpha 5 on the live-action series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. This is one of Richard's often-forgotten roles that he has performed. From here, he expanded into several other particular voice roles on such animated shows as The Angry Beavers (Daggett), Invader Zim (Zim), Kim Possible, Dave the Barbarian (Ned Frischman), Zatch Bell! (Kanchomé), The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Billy and his father Harold, Ben 10 (Grey Matter), Squirrel Boy (Rodney) and Shorty McShorts' Shorts as Dudley. After his stint as Alpha 5 ended, Horvitz went on to voice a few monsters in other Power Rangers series, and was also the voice of Alpha 7 in the Power Rangers: Wild Force episode "Forever Red". He also played the main character Raz in Psychonauts and Orthopox in Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans! 2 and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon in a voice that closely resembles that of Zim (in an English accent). He has voiced various NPCs in EverQuest 2. He voiced the Berserker Darklings in The Darkness, Bumble in Kinectimals and Kaos in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. Horvitz also voiced "Green Grapes" in the Fruit of the Loom commercials. He has also acted on stage, including in Jeffrey Hatcher's "Mrs. Mannerly" in Boston.^[6]

Filmography

Live-action

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  Babylon 5 – Mark


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  Fruit of the Loom Commercials – "Green Grapes"


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  Head of the Class – Oswald Bletch


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  MMPR/PRZ/PRT – Alpha 5 (voice, credited as Richard Wood)


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  Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie – Alpha 5 (voice)


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  Power Rangers in Space – Datascammer (voice)


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  Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue – Smogger (voice)


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  Power Rangers: Time Force – Mantamobile (voice)


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  Power Rangers: Wild Force – Alpha 7 (voice)


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  Sabrina, the Teenage Witch – Additional Voices


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  Safe at Home – Gary Van Sickle


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  That's So Raven – Teddy


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  The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth – Sherry the Fairy (voice)


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  The Chimp Channel – Timmy Briar (voice)


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  The Munsters Today – Howie Buchanan


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  Tosh.0 – Fred Willard Fan


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  VR Troopers – Minotaurbot (2nd voice)


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  Working – Craig, Elevator Passenger


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  You Can't Take It with You – Leo

Animation

Anime

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  Duel Masters – Fritz


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  Zatch Bell! – Kanchome, Additional Voices

Films

Video games

Audiobooks

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  Goosebumps: Attack of the Mutant – Skipper Matthews

Awards and nominations

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  Nominated – Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Television Production for Invader Zim – 2001
  

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Richard Horvitz.

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  Richard Steven Horvitz on IMDb


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  Richard Steven Horvitz at Anime News Network's encyclopedia