William Salyers

William Salyers is an American actor. He is best known for his vocal performances, such as Reverend Putty on Moral Orel, Rigby on Regular Show and Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus in the 2018 video game Spider-Man.

William Salyers
Salyers at Magic City Comic Con in 2016
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present
Spouses	Selah Brown ​ (divorced)​ Nancy Elizabeth Dustin ​ ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	1

Biography

Salyers grew up in Pawhuska, Oklahoma and graduated from Pawhuska High School in 1982.^[1] He is known as the voice of Rigby on Regular Show, Reverend Putty and Mr. Littler on Moral Orel and Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus in the video game Spider-Man. Salyers also provided the voices of the Penguin in Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two-Face, Virman Vundabar in Justice League Action, Truman Marsh in Avengers Assemble, Hoffman in Back 4 Blood, and Bruce Banner in Marvel's Midnight Suns. He has also had live-action roles in the film Bedazzled and the television series Judging Amy.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	The Book of Stars	Hospital Doctor
2000	Bedazzled	Devil (Elegant)
2016	Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders	Penguin (voice)	Direct-to-video[3][4]
2017	Deep	Darcy (voice)	[4]
	Batman vs. Two-Face	Penguin (voice)[5]	Direct-to-video[4]
2018	Batman: Gotham by Gaslight	Hugo Strange (voice)[6]
2019	DC Showcase: Sgt. Rock	The Iron Major (voice)	Short film[7][4]
2020	Superman: Red Son	Joseph Stalin (voice)	Direct-to-video[8][4]
2022	Pompo: The Cinéphile	Additional Voices	English dub
2023	Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham	Penguin, Professor Manfurd (voice)	Direct-to-video[9]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993, 1995	Northern Exposure	Mitch, Shakespeare	2 episodes
1995	Medicine Ball	Scalpel Wielding Maniac	Episode: "Wizard of Bras"
1996	Pandora's Clock	Controller	Miniseries
2000, 2003	Judging Amy	Phil Dyer	2 episodes
2001	Strong Medicine	ER Doctor	Episode: "Maternity"
	The Huntress	Douglas Quinn	Episode: "Generations"
2005–08	Moral Orel	Reverend Putty, Mr. Littler (voices)	28 episodes
2009	iCarly	Judge Phillipe	Episode: "iCook"
2010–12	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	The Invisible Man, John Hancock (voices)	3 episodes
2010–17	Regular Show	Rigby, additional voices	245 episodes[4]
2015	Regular Show: The Movie	Rigby (voice)	Television film[4]
2016–17	Avengers Assemble	Truman Marsh, World Security Council Member (voice)	6 episodes[4]
2017	Ant-Man	Yellowjacket (voice)	2 episodes
	Justice League Action	Virman Vundabar (voice)	Episode: "Under a Red Sun"[4]
2018	Persona 5: The Animation	Toranosuke Yoshida (voice)	English dub[4]
	The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants	Additional Voices	3 episodes
2019	Who Killed Little Gregory?	Etienne Sesmat	5 episodes
2020	Curious George	Nature Host (voice)	Episode: "George in His Own Backyard"
2020–22	Close Enough	Dog Boy, Doctor, Additional Voices	5 episodes
2021	Shaman King	Hang Zang-Ching, Olona (voice)	English dub 6 episodes[4]
	Teenage Euthanasia	Stephen Hawking, Security Guard, Extreme Voice	Episode: "First Date with the Second Coming"
2022	Spriggan	Major Fatman, Professor Mauser, Steve Foster (voice)	English dub[4]
2024	Batman: Caped Crusader	Mayor Jessop, Emil Potter (voice)	2 episodes[4]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
2008	Hellboy: The Science of Evil	Lock, Additional Voices
	Tom Clancy's EndWar	Additional Voices
	Call of Duty: World at War	German Soldier
2009	Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard	Russian Soldier, Bandit		[4]
	Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall	Rigby
	The Sims 3	Voice 1
	Where the Wild Things Are	Douglas		[4]
2010	Mass Effect 2	Joram Talid, Marab, Sergeant Haron, Security Officer Zemkl
	Medal of Honor	Bossman
2011	Dead Space 2	Additional Voices
	Dungeon Siege III	Lazer Bassili, Meister Fiddlewick, Additional Voices
	Captain America: Super Soldier	Hydra Forces		[4]
	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Additional Voices
2012	The Darkness II	Victor Valente		[4]
	Mass Effect 3	Mordin Solus
2013	The Bureau: XCOM Declassified	Heinrich Dresner, Outsider Infiltrator
	République	David Bowen		[4]
2014	WildStar	Ish'amel the Bloodied, Zarkonis, CaravanMaster Braithwait, Mechari Male, Chua, Cosine
	SimCity: BuildIt	Additional Voices
	Sunset Overdrive
	Far Cry 4
2014–16	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Ajolin, Lord Ivress, Jarak, Lord Anril
2015	Evolve	Hank		[4]
	Pillars of Eternity	Thaos ix Arkannon
	Anki Overdrive	Dark
	Lego Dimensions	Sensei Wu, Scarecrow, Gorzan, Mayor Hubert, Master Chen
	Fallout 4	Bullet, Calvin Whitaker, Sheffield		[4]
2016	Hitman	Erich Soders
	Persona 5	Toranosuke Yoshida
	XCOM 2	Julian
	World of Final Fantasy	Cid		[4]
2017	Agents of Mayhem	Claymore (Cormac Ross), Tres Delmore, Pride Trooper
2018	Dynasty Warriors 9	Cao Ren, Huang Gai		[4]
	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	Thaos ix Arkannon, Weto, Injured Soldier
	Spider-Man	Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus		[4]
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV	Carl Regnitz
2019	Rage 2	Atom Hammer		[4]
	Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order	Doctor Octopus
	Fallout 76	Calvin Van Lowe, Toxic Larry	Wild Appalachia DLC
	Persona 5 Royal	Toranosuke Yoshida		[4]
2020	Final Fantasy VII Remake	Palmer		[10][4]
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV	Governor Carl Regnitz		[4]
	Yakuza: Like A Dragon	Nonomiya	English dub
	Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War	Perseus
	Spider-Man: Miles Morales	Otto Octavius		[4]
2021	Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart	The Fixer, Robot Pirates, Additional Voices
	Back 4 Blood	Hoffman
2022	Saints Row	Law Enforcement, Santo Ileso Pedestrians
	Marvel's Midnight Suns	Bruce Banner		[11][4]
2023	Spider-Man 2	Otto Octavius		[4]
	Persona 5 Tactica	Ichiro Nakabachi
2024	Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth	Yotaro Nakajima, additional voices
	The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie	Soldiers & Citizens of Zemuria		[12]
	Final Fantasy VII Rebirth	Palmer		[4]

References

1. "William Salyers". IGDB.com.
2. Arnold, John (September 24, 2004). "Learning from a master", Albuquerque Journal, p. B1.
3. Gallagher, Brian (October 3, 2016). "Full Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Voice Cast Announced". MovieWeb. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
4. "William Salyers (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 1, 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
5. Gilyadov, Alex (August 14, 2017). "Batman vs. Two-Face: Release Date and Box Art for Adam West's Final Batman Movie". IGN. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
6. Trumbore, Dave (November 14, 2017). "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Bluray Release Date, Details Confirmed". Collider. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
7. Keränen, Frida (May 7, 2019). "DC Showcase Animated Shorts to Highlight Sgt Rock, Adam Strange & More". CBR. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
8. Weekes, Princess (December 17, 2019). "Trailer for 'Superman: Red Son' Brings Classic Elseworld Story to Life". The Mary Sue. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
9. Couch, Aaron (December 6, 2022). "'Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham' Sets Voice Cast (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
10. "FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE English voice cast revealed | Square Enix Blog". square-enix-games.com. March 26, 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2022.
11. Byrd, Aaron; Greenbaum, Matthew (December 2, 2022). "Marvel's Midnight Suns Cast: Every Character and Voice Actor". Den of Geek. Retrieved July 15, 2024.
12. "The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (2023 Video Game)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved September 23, 2024.

External links

• William Salyers at IMDb