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Brian Silva

Brian Silva (2013).

Brian Silva is an ex-Accolade employee and Bubsy's voice actor in the first instalment, Bubsy in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind.

Though initially hired for his voice, the artwork included in his portfolio earned him the additional position of sprite- and background artist. He was granted the role of game developer for Bubsy II, but left the company halfway production to work at Visual Concepts for reasons unknown.

Bubsy was Silva's first big voice acting gig, until he got replaced by Rob Paulsen for the next instalment, who also happened to get the lead in the planned television series prior to Silva's departure.

Career

Brian Silva's video game career started in the 70s as a background pixel artist, while his voice acting career made its start in 1989 by performing impersonations and local commercial spots on FM 102's "Morning Zoo" in Sacramento. Afterwards, Silva became part of 97 KROY's "J.R. in the Morning" show.
His radio career came to an official end in 1991, and a year later, he responded to a video game magazine ad from Accolade, looking for a voice actor for their upcoming game, Bubsy.

After working for the company for roughly a year, he moved to Visual Concepts (1993-1996), PostLinear Entertainment (1996), Midway Games (1997-2003), Q Entertainment (2003-2004), Swingin' Ape Studios (2004), and then Blizzard after the studio was bought by them.
A 2015 interview with Segabits revealed he was working for Specular Interactive -an entertainment company set up by Swingin' Ape's founder- and co-created the arcade games, H2Overdrive, Project HADES, Dirty Drivin', and Batman.

He was also involved with a few cancelled productions, like Crank the Weasel, as co-creator and voice of Crank, and Congo: The Secret of Zinj, where he was given the full lead to a game for the first time.

Silva has voiced multiple games around the 2000s, but there's no further public record of his work and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Filmography

Video Games

A list of his voice performances in video games.

Year Title Role Platform
1993 Bubsy I Bubsy Genesis, SNES
1996 Viewpoint Additional vocal effects/unknown PS
1999 NFL Blitz 2000 Player vocals Dreamcast, PC, PS, N64
1999 Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Unknown Dreamcast, PS, N64
2000 Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 Unknown Dreamcast, PS, PS2, N64
2000 Hydro Thunder Announcer PS, N64
2001 SpyHunter Alec Sects PS2, PS, GC, XBox, Zodiac
2002 Fire blade Additional voices/unknown PS2, GC, XBox
2002 Legion: The Legend of Excalibur Arthur, Lancelot, town crier, the mayor, additional voices PS2
2002 Haven: Call of the King Haven: Call of the King Ferry owner, worried villager, boatman, gilderman PS2
2003 Freaky Flyers Johnny Turbine, Pauli Achi, Mick Bungadoo, Mamma Achi, newsreels PS2, Xbox
2004 Phantom Brave Fox, Lierre, "royal employee ringmaster" Ham, bully, circus member PC, PS2, PSP, Wii
2004 Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana Baby pig, Book Eater, Super Puni, Totem, Uru (uncredited roles) PS2
2004 World of Warcraft An eredar PC
2007 World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade An eredar, un-mounted Death Knight PC
2009 H2Overdrive Unknown Arcade machine
2011 Dirty Drivin' Unknown Arcade machine
2013 Batman Scarecrow, Mr. Freeze, The Penguin Arcade machine


TV

A list of his voice performances in TV shows.

Year Title Role Genre
2002 .hack//Sign Komiyan III Anime
2003 .hack//Legend of the Twilight Komiyan III Anime

Portfolio

Brian Silva's work, collected from his defunct website (see: Trivia).

Video Game Design


Voice Work

Collection of radio commercials by Brian Silva

Collection of improvised cartoon characters by Brian Silva

Collection of impersonations by Brian Silva



Artwork

Not related to any projects.

Trivia