Eddie Frierson | |
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| Born | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Other names | Eric Frierson |
| Occupation(s) | Voice actor, writer |
| Years active | 1981–present |
Eddie Frierson is an American voice actor and writer.[1][2] He has provided voices for such films asWreck-It Ralph,Hotel Transylvania,The Princess and the Frog,ParaNorman,Curious George,Tangled the video gamesMedal of Honor: Airborne andSengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes and the animated television seriesMÄR: Märchen Awakens Romance.
On the stage, he playedBaseball Hall of Fame pitcherChristy Mathewson in the one-man showMatty: An Evening with Christy Mathewson.[3][4]
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Originally fromNashville, Tennessee,[2] Frierson has been doing voicework for many anime series and movies since the 1980s, and has also been a voice actor for two ofSaban Entertainment's most well-known shows - thePower Rangers franchise andVR Troopers. While during his tenure in the Saban shows, he only did voicework for one-shot characters in the earlier years, he was able to play a major role in 2001'sPower Rangers Time Force when he did the voice of the mad robot scientist Frax. After the PR franchise moved to New Zealand in 2003 (which laid off much of the PR crew, Frierson included), Frierson has continued to do voicework for various anime series such as.hack andRobotech, as well as voicework in animated children's movies such asCurious George,Chicken Little, andThe Wild. He has also done voicework for different video game franchises, such as theMedal of Honor series.
Frierson's theater work includes roles such as Horatio inMark Ringer's staging ofHamlet,[5] and Flute inA Midsummer Night's Dream at Nevada Shakespeare in the Park. He twice won the prestigious Maurice Scott Award for Los Angeles theatre for his performances as Dapper inBen Jonson'sThe Alchemist at theGlobe Playhouse and as Count Vronsky inAnna Karenina at Theatre Rapport.[6] He also won a New England Drama Critic's award for his portrayal of the dim-witted Red Sox pitcher Tank inSteve Kluger's acclaimed nine-inning comedy,Bullpen.
Eddie was on Tic Tac DOugh in the 1985–86 season and won $4900 in cash.
Frierson's award-winning one-man showMatty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson, directed by fellow voice actorKerrigan Mahan, is built around Hall of Fame baseball pitcherChristy Mathewson.[7] Frierson has taken the show across the country, includingOff-Broadway in New York, andNational Public Radio named it one of the 10 best shows of the New York theatre season.[8] He wonDrama-Logue Awards as both an actor and writer during the show's Los Angeles engagement. He has performed the show in Mathewson's hometown ofFactoryville, Pennsylvania, at the pitcher's alma materBucknell University, and at theBaseball Hall of Fame.[9]
Frierson has formed The Mathewson Foundation,[7] dedicated to the preservation of American History through baseball. He plans to focus those efforts and locate the Foundation in Factoryville. Also in the works for Frierson are the first true biographies of Christy, both in book form and for the big screen.