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Gray Haddock
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Haddock at the 2017 New York Comic Con
Nationality American
Education University of Texas at Austin
Occupation Voice actor, film producer
Years active 1995–2019
Employer Rooster Teeth (2011–2019)
Spouse(s) Lara Toner
Children 2

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.

Career

Gray Haddock graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996.

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

RTX 2015 - Miles Luna and Gray Haddock (20437232492)
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. 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. 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.

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

Filmography

Voice acting

Year Title Role Notes
1995 Wedding Peach Yousuke Fuuma TV series
1995 Legend of Crystania Captain Chivalry, Grib Film
1996 Tattoon Master Hydra TV series
Reborn from Hell II: Jubei's Revenge Jubei Yagyu Film
1997 Sakura Diaries Mashtu Tatsuhiko TV series
Rurouni Kenshin: Requiem for the Ishin Patriots Sanosuke Sagara Film
1997–1998 Ninja Resurrection Jubei Yagyu TV mini-series, 2 episodes
1998 Lost Universe Rando TV series
Tekken: The Motion Picture Lei Wulong Film
1998–1999 Steam Detectives Le Bled TV series, 6 episodes
1999 Hoshin Engi Hakuyuko TV series
2001 Z.O.E. Dolores, I Basilico Basilisk TV series, episode: "James no sainan"
Rurouni Kenshin: Reflection Sanosuke Sagara TV mini-series, 2 episodes
Conquest: Frontier Wars Turbine Doc, Blanus, Battleship Video game
2002 Jing: King of Bandits Postino TV mini-series
2003 Kidô shinsengumi: Moe yo ken Ukon Tanaka Film
Deus Ex: Invisible War SSC Guard #2, Announcer #1 Video game
2003–2004 Wedding Peach Yousuke Fuuma/Viento TV series
2004 Ou Dorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven Postino Short film
Thief: Deadly Shadows Townspeople #3 Video game
2005–2006 Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor Archanfel TV series, 6 episodes
2006 009-1 Loki TV series, 4 episodes
2006–2010 Pumpkin Scissors Oreldo TV series, 24 episodes
2007 Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Various soldiers Video game
2011 DC Universe Online Green Lantern, Black Hand, Star Labs Scientist Video game
2011–2012 Rurouni Kenshin: New Kyoto Arc Sanosuke Sagara Film series, 2 films
2012–2019 Red vs. Blue Locus, Donald Doyle, Resistance Soldier Web series
2013–2016 RWBY Roman Torchwick Web series
2014–2015 X-Ray and Vav Rusty Bonjour Web series, 5 episodes
2016 My Hero Academia Electric Villain (additional voices) Anime, 1 episode
2016 Luck and Logic Rentaro Tsurugi Anime
2016–2018 RWBY Chibi Roman Torchwick Web series, 5 episodes
2019 Gen:Lock Leon August Web series
2020 Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy Spinister Animated series

Live action

Year Title Role Notes
2016–2018 Fan Service Himself Podcast, 49 episodes
2017 Million Dollars, But... Himself Web series, episode: "Theme Pack: Animation"

Production

Year Title Role Notes
2011 My Sucky Teen Romance Visual effects Film
Jeff, Who Lives at Home Visual effects Film
2011–2018 Red vs. Blue Visual effects (until 2012)
Supervising producer (since 2014)
Web series
2013–2018 RWBY Editor, producer (since 2014), co-director (2015 to 2018) Web series
2014–2015 X-Ray and Vav Producer (5 episodes) Web series
2016–2019 RWBY Chibi Supervising producer (6 episodes) Web series
Camp Camp Producer (5 episodes), writer (2 episodes) Web series
2019 Gen:Lock Writer, director Web series
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