Beau Billingslea
| Beau Billingslea | |
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| Background | |
| Gender |  Male
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| Place of Birth |  Charleston, South Carolina[1]
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| Date of Birth | December 18, 1944 |
| Occupation(s) | Voice Actor, Actor |
Beau Billingslea, also known as John Billingslea, John Daniels as well as various other pseudonyms, is an African-American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as the voice of Jet Black from the anime Cowboy Bebop.
Biography
Billingslea was born in Charleston, South Carolina, spending most of his childhood growing up in Connecticut. Before starting his acting career, he played as a quarterback for the football team at the University of Connecticut, and later became its captain.[1]
He started doing voice-overs between the late 1970s and early 1980s, mainly performing African accents for the American dubs of some foreign films and, under the influence of a couple of people who started doing anime, he was eventually called into doing voices for anime.[1] Since then, Billingslea has done voices for number of anime shows, of which Digimon is included, such as Bleach and Cyborg 009.
Digimon Filmography
- Digimon Adventure: Ogremon
- Digimon Tamers: Hagurumon
- Digimon Frontier: Shamanmon/BurningGreymon
- Digimon Data Squad: Leopardmon
- Digimon Adventure tri.: Ogremon
