Rick Zieff is an American actor and voice-over coach with a career spanning from the late 1980s to the present. He was born Richard Evan Zieff on November 1, 1961. His body of work includes live-action film and television, but he is prominently known for his extensive contributions to voice acting in animation, video games, and English dubs of anime. In addition to his performance work, he also teaches a voice course in Los Angeles.

Within the realm of anime voice acting, Zieff has portrayed a variety of characters across numerous series and films. One of his notable roles is Shusuke Amagai in the English adaptation of the long-running series Bleach. He has also lent his voice to the English dubs of other major anime properties, including roles such as Shiba in Naruto Shippūden and Höfner in Carole & Tuesday. His work extends to anime films as well, where he voiced the character Archibald Simon in the 2004 film Steamboy.

Zieff's filmography includes the specific roles mentioned in the prompt. He provided the voice for Haniwa in a 2022 English-language dub of the classic 1969 anime feature film The Flying Phantom Ship. He is also the voice of Koichi in the English-language version of the critically acclaimed anime film A Letter to Momo. His other anime film credits include voicing Heizo Hattori in Case Closed: The Crimson Love Letter and a role in Lupin the 3rd: Fujiko Mine's Lie.

Throughout his career, Zieff has frequently collaborated with various voice direction teams and studios, contributing to projects for major distributors. He has worked on dubs produced by studios such as NYAV Post and Kocha Sound. For certain roles, particularly in children's animated series, he has been credited under the pseudonym Danny Katiana. Beyond anime, his voice acting achievements include a long-running role as Spike the Dog in multiple iterations of The Tom and Jerry Show and voicing Leonard Gramps Loud in The Loud House. He also served as the voice director for the pilot episode of the animated series Helluva Boss in 2019. In addition to his on-screen and voice work, Zieff has an extensive list of credits in video games, lending his voice to characters in major titles such as Mass Effect, Fallout 76, and Bugsnax.