Michael Kopsa, the English dub voice actor of Char Aznable in “Cell Swimsuit Gundam,” has died of a mind tumor on the age of 66, his ex-wife Lucia Frangione announced on Twitter.
Within the early 2000s, Kopsa, was a part of the forged for the English dub of “Cell Swimsuit Gundam,” which initially aired in Japan again in 1979 however was launched to the US a long time later as a part of Cartoon Community’s “Toonami” programming block. Kopsa’s character, Char Aznable, turned the collection’ most distinguished villain as a charismatic however lethal ace tactician consumed by his thirst for revenge for his father’s homicide.
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Together with enjoying Char within the collection, Kopsa, performed him within the English dub of the 1988 movie “Cell Swimsuit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack,” a movie that noticed the ultimate showdown between Char and collection protagonist Amuro Ray. He additionally performed the antagonist in a number of video video games launched by Bandai.
Exterior “Gundam,” Kopsa, supplied the voice of Dr. Hank McCoy, aka Beast, within the animated collection “X-Males: Evolution.” On the live-action facet, he had roles on episodes of “The Outer Limits,” “X-Recordsdata,” and “Stargate SG-1.” He additionally appeared on “Fringe” as Captain Windmark, the chief of an evil race often called the Observers who take over Earth in a dystopian future timeline that serves because the setting for the present’s fifth season.
“He was an unimaginable stage and display screen actor, voice actor, carpenter, musician and painter. Most significantly, he was a loving and richly current father,” Frangione tweeted.