Jack Bean is a pseudonym for a well-established American voice actor known for extensive work in English-language dubs of anime and video games. The actor, also credited professionally as Dan Green and under other names such as Jay Snyder, has been active in the industry since the early 1990s. The alias Jack Bean has appeared on credits for various productions, including the role of Tanabe in the anime series Ping Pong Club, as confirmed by credits for the English dub produced by Central Park Media.

The actor behind the Jack Bean alias has a career background rooted in New York-based voice-over studios, including significant tenures at 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, DuArt Film and Video, and NYAV Post. Beyond performing, he has also worked as an ADR director and script adapter for numerous anime titles. Notable examples of his script adaptation and direction work include the series Samurai Deeper Kyo, The Gokusen, Kurokami: The Animation, and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The actor has also taught voice-over classes professionally.

Among the many voice roles under his primary professional name, he is best known for portraying Yugi Muto and Yami Yugi in the Yu-Gi-Oh! second series anime and its related films, as well as Trudge in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. Additional significant roles include Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic X and several Sonic the Hedgehog video games, Mewtwo and multiple other characters including Professor Birch and Grovyle across the Pokémon franchise, and Asato Tsuzuki in Descendants of Darkness. In Slayers, he provided the English voice for Chaos Dragon Garv, among other characters. In Ping Pong Club, while credited as Jack Bean, he voiced the character Tanabe.

Recurring collaborations have been a notable feature of his career, as he frequently worked with the New York-based dubbing community, including studios like 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, and NYAV Post. Through these studios, he collaborated regularly with other voice actors such as James Carter Cathcart, Wayne Grayson, Dan Green, and others who appeared alongside his Jack Bean credit in the Ping Pong Club dub. The use of the Jack Bean alias itself reflects a common industry practice among voice actors of the period to perform under multiple pseudonyms for various productions.

Notable achievements include his long-running roles in major international franchises such as Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon, his work as a script adapter and director bringing numerous anime series to English-speaking audiences, and his status as a recognizable voice in English-dubbed anime from the late 1990s through the 2000s. His career has spanned from early roles in productions like GoShogun: The Time Étranger to significant work in the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise and beyond.