Colin Phillips
Description
Colin Phillips is the professional alias of American voice actor David J. Mallow, known for his extensive work in English dubs of anime and video games. While Mallow performed under his own name for many roles, he used the name Colin Phillips for specific projects and characters. His career as a voice actor spanned from 1969 to 2019.
Mallow was born in Park Ridge, Illinois on October 19, 1948. Before transitioning to voice acting, he had a twelve-year career as a radio personality in the Midwestern United States and New York City. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1984, he built a prolific career that included commercials, film dubbing, audio books, and character voices for numerous cartoons and video games.
Under the alias Colin Phillips, Mallow is best known for providing the voice of Oolong, also known as Mao Mao, in the Harmony Gold dub of the Dragon Ball franchise. He performed the role in Dragon Ball Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies as well as the Dragon Ball television series. He also voiced the character Shu in the Arc the Lad anime series under the same alias.
Beyond his work as Colin Phillips, Mallow had an extensive list of notable voice roles. He was the voice of Angemon, MagnaAngemon, and Seraphimon in the Digimon franchise, and also voiced several other Digimon characters including Upamon and Gekomon. He portrayed Commander Amarao in FLCL, Baboo in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Kensei Muguruma and Kaien Shiba in Bleach, and The Anti-Spiral in Gurren Lagann. In video games, he was well known as the voice of Akuma in the Street Fighter series. Other major credits include Straizo and the narrator in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kyousuke Irie in Higurashi When They Cry, and Seishirou Sakurazuka in X.
Throughout his career, Mallow frequently collaborated with Saban Entertainment and worked on many productions for the studio. He reprised his role as Baboo across multiple Power Rangers series and contributed voices to numerous other Saban shows. He also worked regularly with the anime dubbing studios Animaze and Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
In recognition of his work, Dave Mallow was nominated for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy at the first annual American Anime Awards in January 2007. He retired from voice acting in 2019.
Mallow was born in Park Ridge, Illinois on October 19, 1948. Before transitioning to voice acting, he had a twelve-year career as a radio personality in the Midwestern United States and New York City. After relocating to Los Angeles in 1984, he built a prolific career that included commercials, film dubbing, audio books, and character voices for numerous cartoons and video games.
Under the alias Colin Phillips, Mallow is best known for providing the voice of Oolong, also known as Mao Mao, in the Harmony Gold dub of the Dragon Ball franchise. He performed the role in Dragon Ball Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies as well as the Dragon Ball television series. He also voiced the character Shu in the Arc the Lad anime series under the same alias.
Beyond his work as Colin Phillips, Mallow had an extensive list of notable voice roles. He was the voice of Angemon, MagnaAngemon, and Seraphimon in the Digimon franchise, and also voiced several other Digimon characters including Upamon and Gekomon. He portrayed Commander Amarao in FLCL, Baboo in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Kensei Muguruma and Kaien Shiba in Bleach, and The Anti-Spiral in Gurren Lagann. In video games, he was well known as the voice of Akuma in the Street Fighter series. Other major credits include Straizo and the narrator in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kyousuke Irie in Higurashi When They Cry, and Seishirou Sakurazuka in X.
Throughout his career, Mallow frequently collaborated with Saban Entertainment and worked on many productions for the studio. He reprised his role as Baboo across multiple Power Rangers series and contributed voices to numerous other Saban shows. He also worked regularly with the anime dubbing studios Animaze and Bang Zoom! Entertainment.
In recognition of his work, Dave Mallow was nominated for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy at the first annual American Anime Awards in January 2007. He retired from voice acting in 2019.
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- EnglishAnime overview: Dragon Ball Movie 1: Curse of the Blood Rubies
- EnglishAnime overview: Dragon Ball
- EnglishAnime overview: Dragon Ball