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Gray Haddock

Gray Haddock

American actor and producer


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.

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Gray Haddock graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996.[citation needed]

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.[1] In 1998, he played the role of Lei Wulong in Tekken: The Motion Picture.[2]

Miles Luna, a former Rooster Teeth writer and voice actor, with Haddock at RTX 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.[3][4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

In 2014, Haddock worked as a producer on the second season of RWBY.[7] In September 2014, he became head of the newly-formed Rooster Teeth Animation department.[8] When production started on its third season in 2015, Haddock became a co-director and producer for RWBY.[9] In 2018, he became writer and director for a mecha series on Rooster Teeth, Gen:Lock.[10] 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.[11] In September 2019, he announced he had left Rooster Teeth.[12]

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References

  1. "Voice Compare: Rurouni Kenshin – Sanosuke Sagara". Behind The Voice Actors. November 17, 2009. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2016. 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.
  2. Lipkowitz, Gary (October 13, 2000). "Postmarks: 'Tekken' Produced in Austin". The Austin Chronicle. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016. 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).
  3. Haddock, Gray (2012). "Greetings and salutations..." Rooster Teeth. Archived from the original on December 12, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016. 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?
  4. Haddock, Gray (August 23, 2016). "5 years ago today I had a call..." Facebook. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. Distler, Anthony (February 21, 2016). "A Fan's Perspective – RWBY Volume 3 Unanswered Questions". VAVEL.com. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  6. Meigs, Michael. "Review: Venus in Fur by Austin Playhouse". CTX Live Theatre. Archived from the original on March 11, 2018.
  7. Smith, Carly (January 30, 2014). "RWBY Volume 2 Premiering at RTX 2014, First Promo Art Available". The Escapist. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014. Retrieved December 7, 2016. Its online premiere will happen shortly afterward, producer Gray Haddock announced.
  8. Newton, Steve (October 18, 2016). "Rooster Teeth Animation moves to new building ahead of 'RWBY Volume 4'". WUSA9.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  9. Hullum, Matt (2019). "Our response to the recent Reddit thread about RT Animation". Rooster Teeth. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved August 21, 2019. 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.

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