Canadian voice actor, animator, and author

Ian James Corlett is a Canadian voice actor, animator, and author. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon. One of his best-known animation roles was the first English voice of adult Goku in the Ocean dub of Dragon Ball Z in 1996–1997.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Film
  • 3.2 Anime
  • 3.3 Animation
  • 3.4 Video games
• 4 Bibliography
• 5 References
  • 5.1 Citations
  • 5.2 Book references
• 6 External links

Career

Corlett began his career in 1984. In addition to programming some drum tracks and helping with some computer sequences on Queensrÿche's album Operation: Mindcrime, and also selling the band some music gear in the 1980s, Corlett also lent his voice to several animated series produced/dubbed in Canada. His most notable voice roles included the *le character of the Mega Man TV show, Cheetor in Beast Wars: Transformers, Glitch-Bob in ReBoot, and Andy Larkin in What's with Andy?. Another notable, yet brief starring role of Corlett's was Goku in Funimation/Saban's original dub of Dragon Ball Z. Corlett has also lent his voice to less known DIC Entertainment shows such as Super Duper Sumos. He also voiced Mr. Cramp in The Cramp Twins. In Salty's Lighthouse, he played Ten Cents, Otis, Zeebee, Zip, Lord Stinker, Frank, Eddie, and the Lighthouse Clock. He voiced Ransome the Clown in the video game Thimbleweed Park.

Through a coincidence, Corlett who voiced Dr. Wily in DIC's video-game oriented cartoon Captain N: The Game Master would later voice his nemesis Mega Man in the Ruby-Spears cartoon adaptation of the games.

He along with fellow Canadian voice actor Terry Kl*en owned a production company who helped rewrite international shows.

He is set to be the English voice of Miroku for the *anese anime series Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, replacing Kirby Morrow who was the original English voice actor for Miroku in the Inuyasha series until his death in November 18, 2020.

Personal life

Corlett lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children, Philip (born 1997) and Claire Corlett (born 1999). They have done voice work for two different animated series, Dinosaur Train and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, respectively. He also has a home in Palm Springs, California. In addition to his work in Vancouver, he does voice work in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

Filmography

Film

Anime

Animation

Video games

Bibliography

• E is for Ethics (Simon & Schuster, Atria Books, 2009; ISBN:9781416596691)
• E is for Environment (Simon & Schuster, Atria Books, 2011; ISBN:9781439194577)

References

Citations

Book references

• Terrace, Vincent (2008). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2d:ed.). McFarland. ISBN:9780786486410.
• Terrace, Vincent (2010). The Year in Television, 2009: A Catalog of New and Continuing Series, Miniseries, Specials and TV Movies. McFarland. ISBN:9780786456444.

External links

• Official website
• Ian James Corlett convention appearances on AnimeCons.com
• Ian James Corlett at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Ian James Corlett at IMDb