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[edit]
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[edit]
- Digimon Adventure: Ogremon
- Digimon Tamers: Hagurumon
- Digimon Frontier: Shamanmon/BurningGreymon
- Digimon Data Squad: Leopardmon
- Digimon Adventure tri.: Ogremon
