David Hayter
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| Born | February 6, 1969 Santa Monica, California |
| Nationality |  American
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| Occupation | Voice actor and screenwriter |
David Bryan Hayter (born February 6, 1969) is an American voice actor, actor, and screenwriter. He is most notable for providing the English voices of Solid Snake and Big Boss in the Metal Gear Solid series, and for writing the screenplay for X-Men and co-writing the screenplay for X2. Earlier in his acting career, he played the lead role in the live-action Guyver: Dark Hero.
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[edit] Biography
Though born in California, Hayter's parents were Canadian. He started acting at the age of 9. He also did some live acting in the early 1990s, but became interested in voice acting after making a cameo appearance in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad, and later landed the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. He also provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III in the English language version of the anime film The Castle of Cagliostro.
In 1998, Hayter voiced Solid Snake in the highly successful PlayStation video game Metal Gear Solid. He provided Snake's voice in later Metal Gear Solid games such as Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, and provided the voice of Big Boss in the prequels Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. It has been announced that he will be voicing Solid Snake in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Hayter also provided the voice of Solid Snake for the character's guest appearance in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
[edit] Metal Gear Solid related works
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (2008): Old Snake
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus (2007): Naked Snake/Solid Snake/Old Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006): Naked Snake/Big Boss
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence (2006): Big Boss, Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (2004): Big Boss, Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (2004): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (2002): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions (1999): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid: Integral (1999): Solid Snake
- Metal Gear Solid (1998): Solid Snake
[edit] Trivia
- Metal Gear Solid: Integral had English voice acting with Japanese subtitles. It is rumored that Hideo Kojima liked the English voice acting better, and possibly the English voice of Solid Snake, Hayter's character. The Japanese version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance had English voice acting, possibly for the same reason.
- In the original manual of Metal Gear Solid, the voice of Solid Snake is credited to Sean Barker, which was the name of the character Hayter played in Guyver: Dark Hero.
- According to Gamefaqs User Chris Ho's interview with Paul Eiding, Hayter gave up half of his own paycheck in order to bring back the cast of Metal Gear Solid for The Twin Snakes. This is the reason why the voice acting in The Twin Snakes was almost completely redone with the same voice actors, one of the few differences being the actor for the Cyborg Ninja, Greg Eagles, who was replaced by Rob Paulsen.
- An interview with David Hayter by Game Informer in 2001 showed that Hayter wished for the then-unconfirmed Metal Gear Solid movie to be animated or made in CGI so he could provide the voice of Solid Snake. He also wished to be the screenwriter under the possible supervision of Hideo Kojima.
- Hayter is one of the few Metal Gear Solid actors to date to have played and beaten the Metal Gear games he's voiced in,[1] while co-star Christopher Randolph has only beaten Metal Gear Solid.
- Hayter had written a 324 page screenplay adaptation to the graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and David Gibbons. Noted for being a harsh critic of translations of his works to film, Moore said of the script "David Hayter's screenplay was as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen."[2]
[edit] References
- ↑ Paul Semel (2006-11-22). Spy Hard (PSP). GameSpy. Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
- ↑ Jeff Jensen. Watchmen: An Oral History. Entertainment Weekly.
[edit] External Links
- David Hayter At the Internet Movie Database
- Confirmation of MGS4 voice actors
