Steve Blum
Steven Jay Blum is an American voice actor known for his distinctively deep voice.
Career
Blum's notable credits include the voice of Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop, Zeb Orrelios in Star Wars Rebels, Mugen in Samurai Champloo, Roger Smith from The Big O, Orochimaru and Zabuza Momochi in Naruto and Wolverine in multiple Marvel productions. In video games, he provided the voice of main protagonist Jack Cayman in MadWorld, Tank Dempsey in the Call of Duty series, Professor Galvez in ', main protagonist Grayson Hunt in Bulletstorm, Brimstone in Valorant, and Zoltun Kulle in Diablo III.In September 2000, Blum voiced TOM, the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block. He replaced Sonny Strait in the character's subsequent appearances, until the cancellation of Toonami in 2008. When Toonami was revived on May 26, 2012, he returned as the voice of TOM. He is also the announcer for 7-Eleven's "Oh Thank Heaven" television and radio advertisements and partnered with Vic Mignogna in the series Real Fans of Genius.
In animation, he is the voice of Heatblast, Ghostfreak and Vilgax in the Ben 10 franchise, Starscream in ', Count Vertigo in ' and Young Justice, Red Skull, Beta Ray Bill and Wolverine in X-Men the animated series and ' and Amon in The Legend of Korra.
On June 5, 2012, he was awarded a Guinness World Record for being the most prolific video game voice actor, having 261 credited appearances as of May 10, 2012.
Personal life
Steve has two sons: Jeremy Blum, who is a teacher, and Brandon Blum, who is also an actor. He is currently engaged to Mary Elizabeth McGlynn. He is Jewish.Filmography
Anime
Animation
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
Shadow Builder | Shadowbuilder | Resume | ||
06.10.2000 | ' | Computer Voice #1, Poromon, Flamedramon, Raidramon, Magnamon | ||
05.08.2005 | Digimon: Revenge of Diaboromon | Poromon | Resume | |
16.10.2005 | Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers | Guilmon / Growlmon | ||
02.10.2005 | Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon | Guilmon / Growlmon / Gallantmon, Mitsuo Yamaki, Kenta Kitagawa | ||
23.10.2005 | Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon | J.P. Shibayama | ||
01.06.2012 | A Cat in Paris | Nico | ||
26.09.2014 | The Boxtrolls | Shoe, Sparky | ||
2014 | Stand by Me Doraemon | Yoshio Minamoto | ||
21.12.2018 | Bumblebee | Wheeljack | ||
05.04.2019 | Shazam! | Seven Deadly Sins | ||
24.05.2019 | Promare | Ignis Ex |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Source |
27.01.1989 | Goku Midnight Eye | Goku | Resume | |
Outlanders | Operator | Resume | ||
08.08.1994 | ' | T. Hawk, Ring Announcer | As Roger Canfield | Resume |
25.08.1994 | Macross Plus | Marj Gueldola | Resume | |
Black Magic M-66 | Professor Matthew, Soldier | Resume | ||
10.05.1995 | ' | General's Assistant, Noble | Resume | |
24.10.1995–96 | Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! | Prism Vocal Effects | As David Lucas | Resume |
They Were Eleven | Rednose, Amazon, King | Resume | ||
18.06.1996 | Ghost in the Shell | Section 9 Staff Cyberneticist, Coroner | As Roger Canfield Also Ghost in the Shell 2.0 | Resume |
Tokyo Revelation | Kojiro Soma | Animaze dub | Resume | |
' | Kelly's Manager | Resume | ||
22.12.1999 | ' | Ken Masters | Resume | |
27.11.2001 | ' | Celestine | As David Lucas | Resume |
' | Yuichi Kayama | Resume | ||
05.01.2002 | Metropolis | Acetylene Lamp | ||
07.05.2002 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Trilogy | Char Aznable | As David Lucas | Resume |
11.08.2002 | ' | Spike Spiegel | Resume | |
The Era of Vampires | Hei | Live-action dub | Resume | |
18.11.2003 | ' | Yoshiyuki Terada | As Andrew Watton | Resume |
02.12.2003 | The Little Polar Bear | Henry | Resume | |
12.08.2005 | Escape from Cluster Prime | Smytus | Resume | |
25.04.2006 | ' | Vincent Valentine | Resume | |
10.08.2007 | ' | Vilgax, Heatblast, Nightmarish Alien, Alien Fly Prisoner | ||
07.10.2008 | Strait Jacket | Leiot Steinberg | ||
06.03.2007 | Nomad: The Warrior | Shaman | Live-action dub | Resume |
30.10.2008 | ' | Greg Glenn | Resume | |
20.01.2009 | Hulk Vs | Logan / Wolverine | Role in "Hulk vs. Wolverine" | |
09.02.2010 | ' | Lucifer | Resume | |
28.09.2010 | ' | Count Vertigo | Released as extra on ' | |
22.02.2011 | All-Star Superman | Atlas | ||
07.06.2011 | ' | Kloba Vud | ||
18.10.2011 | ' | Stan | ||
23.03.2012 | ' | Heatblast, Mechamorph | ||
21.05.2013 | ' | Bane, Penguin | Resume | |
30.07.2013 | ' | Lex Luthor | ||
10.09.2013 | Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Scarecrow | Clem, Abner | ||
08.10.2013 | ' | Starscream, Darksteel | ||
05.11.2013 | ' | Wolverine | ||
04.02.2014 | ' | Darkseid | ||
27.01.2015 | ' | Lex Luthor | ||
05.06.2015 | Expelled from Paradise | Zarik "Dingo" Kajiwara | BTVA Award for Best Male Lead Vocal Performance in an Anime Movie/Special | |
06.10.2015 | ' | Third Tsuchikage Ohnoki | ||
25.11.2015 | ' | Techmo, Commander, TV Game | ||
20.01.2016 | ' | Black Mask, Firefly | ||
23.07.2019 | Critters Attack! | Critters | ||
14.04.2020 | ' | Sub-Zero |