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Kirk Thornton is an American voice actor, director and script writer working mainly with English-language versions of Japanese animated series.

Kirk Thornton

Other namesRon Allen[1][2]
Sparky Thornton[3]
Spanky Roberts
Donald Lee
Alma materUniversity of Washington[4]
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • ADR director
  • script writer
Years active1979–present
AgentCESD
SpouseJulie Nesbitt[5]
Children2[4]
Websitekirkthornton.com (archived)

His major roles include Brandon Heat in Gungrave, Hotohori in Fushigi Yūgi, Klein in Sword Art Online, Jin in Samurai Champloo, Anavel Gato in Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Hajime Saito in Rurouni Kenshin, Jet Link in Cyborg 009, Don Patch in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Ensign Nogami in The Cockpit and numerous Digimon. Additionally, Thornton co-directed for the popular anime series Bleach alongside Wendee Lee and also serves as the narrator. In video games, he voices Number VII Organization XIII member Saïx in the Kingdom Hearts series and Shadow the Hedgehog and Orbot (both since 2010) in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.[6]

In early February 1989, he also appeared as a contestant on the game show Classic Concentration.[7][8]

Thornton is married to Julie Nesbitt.[5] Together they have two children.[4]

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  11. ^ A Perfect Blue Day (DVD). Manga Entertainment. 2000.
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  46. ^ What the Bleep Do We Know!? (DVD). 2004.
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