Neil Kaplan

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Neil Kaplan

Birth Name	Neil Kaplan
Born	March 9, 1967
in	Bayonne, New Jersey
Age	40

Statistics
Occupation	Voice Actor, Comedian
Other Names	Neil Caplan
Gender	Male










Notable Credit(s)	Transformers: Robots in Disguise as Optimus Prime Digimon as Hawkmon Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue as Diabolico
Official Website	NeKap.net

Neil Kaplan (born March 9th, 1967 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA) is a voice actor.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
3 External links

[edit] Biography

Neil Kaplan grew up in San Jose, California. He got his start as a comedian doing impressions of presidents such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. He also impersonated a little known journalist at the time, Dan Rather. He then started work on video games, including many Star Wars titles. From there he went on to do such shows as Power Rangers, Digimon: Digital Monsters, and most recently, Transformers: Robots in Disguise. One of his most famous voices is Hawkmon from Digimon. He will always be remembered for his great work in cartoons and comedy. His favorite role was the "utility guy" on a show called The Mouse and the Monster, which aired on UPN back in 1996-1997. He played stomachs, ghosts, and Sappy the Clown, among dozens of other characters on that show. He played a variety of characters in every show, so every week was different, showing his wide range.

Kaplan was also once a contestant on the popular comedy game show, Street Smarts. On that appearance he showed off some of his other impressions, including one of Gilbert Gottfried.

Recently, Kaplan signed on to be a guest at the upcoming Power Morphicon.