Gary Michaels is the professional pseudonym of Gary Michael Dubin, an American actor who had an extensive career in live-action television and film before becoming a prolific voice actor in English dubs of Japanese anime. Born in Los Angeles, California on May 5, 1959, Dubin began acting as a child in the 1960s. He is known for his live-action role as Punky Lazaar on the television series The Partridge Family and for playing Eddie Marchand, a teenager eaten by the shark in the film Jaws 2. He used the name Gary Michaels for a significant portion of his voice-over work, particularly when dubbing anime from the 1980s through the early 2000s.

As a voice actor, Gary Michaels is best recognized for his role as Bat in the English-language adaptation of the classic post-apocalyptic martial arts anime Fist of the North Star. Bat is a young boy who becomes a self-appointed sidekick and loyal companion to the protagonist, Kenshiro. Beyond this signature role, his anime voice credits are numerous and include parts in several major series and films. He voiced George in the acclaimed space western Cowboy Bebop, Ivan the Terrible in Giant Robo, and multiple roles in The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor, including Aptom and Oswald Lisker, also known as Guyver II. His other notable anime work includes roles in Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie as Matsui, Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team as Arth, Outlanders, Black Magic M-66, and The Big O.

Dubin often worked under the direction of various dubbing studios and frequently collaborated with a consistent circle of actors and voice directors in the Los Angeles area. His credits regularly appear alongside other prominent English voice actors of the era, and he was active in many productions coordinated by studios such as Animaze, which produced English versions for numerous anime titles in the 1990s. His career in voice acting spanned from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, leaving a body of work that contributed to the North American popularization of anime during its initial growth in the home video market. Gary Dubin passed away on October 8, 2016, after a battle with bone cancer at the age of 57.