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James Arnold Taylor (born July 22, 1969, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American voice actor. He is best known for his voice work in Squaresoft's popular video game, Final Fantasy X, as the voice of Tidus. He also provided the voice for Ratchet in the popular Ratchet & Clank video game series from Insomniac Games, except for the original. James's other large roles include the role of Wooldoor Sockbat on the Comedy Central animated series Drawn Together, voice over work as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars: Clone Wars series, voice acting for both Captain Jack Sparrow and Timon in Kingdom Hearts II, and providing the voices for many characters in The Animatrix. Also, he is the current voice of Fred Flintstone in commercials featuring the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character (i.e., Midas car care; Cocoa Pebbles cereal, etc.). He also voiced Fred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. He also is the voice of Iceman in Marvel and Activision's games, X-Men Legends, X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and the voice of Quentin Beck/Mysterio in the video game version of Spider-Man 2. Taylor has also worked as a voice double for actors such as David Spade, Johnny Depp, Michael J. Fox, Billy Bob Thornton, Ewan McGregor, and Christopher Walken.
James Arnold Taylor loves voice-over. "It has been a dream of mine since childhood to do voice work for movies, television, radio, video games, whatever!" and now James' dream is quite a reality. Because of his versatile vocal range, he has had a successful career in every facet of the Voice-Over Industry. With lead roles in animated films such as the much anticipated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Leonardo, The Animatrix co-starring with Carrie Anne Moss, and the Disney film Atlantis: Milo's Return taking over for Michael J. Fox in the title role. Currently James has several shows on TV: he's Johnny on the WB's Johnny Test, Axel in A.T.O.M. on Toon Disney, Wooldoor Sockbat on Comedy Central's hit Drawn Together and most notably Obi-Wan Kenobi in Cartoon Networks, Star Wars: Clone Wars. James keeps busy from his home studio with regular promo work for Fox, Spike, G4, and Game Show Network. On the Video Game front, James has been in over 50 recent titles, he's Tidus in the Final Fantasy X series, Ratchet in the Ratchet & Clank series, Gabe in the Syphon Filter series, and numerous voices in games like Shrek, Spiderman, X-Men, and Lord of the Rings to name a few. A unique aspect of James' work is Voice-Doubling. When big time celebrities aren't available to do their own voice, James steps in to seamlessly fill in: from David Spade and Michael J. Fox to Billy Bob Thornton and Christopher Walken. Currently James has been busy as Captain Jack Sparrow and Willy Wonka for Johnny Depp. James' greatest honor has been becoming the new voice of Fred Flintstone for recent cartoons and commercials. "I'm rarely using my own voice, but that's what's so cool about VO. You can be anyone your voice can produce." James is represented by ICM, Los Angeles (310.550.4304) and Jason Marks Talent Management, New York (212.333.8607).







