The following biography of D.C. Douglas is written in the third person to add class and weight. Imagine Joseph Cotton narrating itā¦ When he was aliveā¦ And a bit hipper.
Actor and Voice Over Talent D.C. Douglas
D.C. was born in Berkeley during the Summer of Foreplay to a liberal/artist mother and a conservative/salesman father. The DNA war was won by his esoteric Grandfather and burlesque dancing grandmothersā genes.
D.C. used his family āacting chromosomeā to make creative excuses for his dismal grades. He was then sent to study at the San Jose Music/Arts Institute and perform with the San Jose Childrenās Musical Theatre, as well as other San Francisco Bay Area theatre companies during the late ā70s and early ā80sā¦ This didnāt really help his grades.
City of Angels
He slid down to L.A. in 1985. After studying under (the late, great) Estelle Harman, D.C. co-created the cynical improv troupe, Section Eight and was a member of the critically acclaimed Theatre of NOTE. He continued acting in the L.A. theatre scene, as well as film & TV, throughout the ā90s. In 1992, he launched Hit The Fan Productions in an effort to create inspiring theatre and film projects that would deplete his savings. This worked.
In 1996, he was cast in a small role on the NBC pilot, Boston Common. The producers (of Will & Grace fame) liked his quirky versatility on-camera (and his loud laugh off-camera at the network run-thru) that he returned for 10 more episodes as the anal and humorless āD.C.ā
That same year he received critical praise for his performance in Falling Words, his first film short. He followed that with The Eighth Plane, an anti-Scientology gangster film short and Freud and Darwin Sitting in a Tree, a first cousin coitus short. (His 2005 film short, Duck, Duck, GOOSE!, played over 25 festivals internationally and received Best Short from the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and Best Actor from the Trenton Film Festivalā¦aaahhh, Jersey.)
His 6th film short under his Hit-The-Fan Productions banner, The Crooked Eye (starring Fay Masterson and Academy Award winner Linda hunt) played over 20 film festivals, received awards and glowing reviews, and is was available on iTunes for many years. Now available here!
Along the way he amassed 100+Ā film and television credits.
Voiceover
D.C. also pimps out his vocal chords to make mortgage payments. Recent credits include a national campaign for Experian,Ā Nespresso, Total Wireless, GEICO (oy vey), voice matching Kevin Spacey for Fred Clause and Guy Pierce for Factory Girl, as well as voicing dozens of video game characters: The Master in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, AWACS in Ace Combat 6 and Albert Wesker in 9 games, from 2007’sĀ Resident Evil: Umbrella ChroniclesĀ and 2009’sĀ Resident Evil 5 to Teppen in 2019 (the only actor in the RE franchise to voice a character that long). He gave voice to the Geth as Legion in Mass Effect 2 & 3, yelled Ā a lot on Regular Show as Colonel Rawls, and won hearts on the kids cartoon series, Transformers: Rescue Bots.
In 2013 his voice over and on-camera career merged when fans of his Albert Wesker performance in the Resident Evil video game series cast him in a lead role in their futuristic sci-fi film, Apocalypse Kiss. Ā D.C. altered his appearance as a nod to his fictional video game character.
2014 saw D.C.’s Notorious [Zombie Related] Erotic FanFic Show become THE panel to see at anime/videogame cons – quickly garnering the attention of [redacted] lawyers. And his appearance in yet another sequel added to his quirky credentials: Sharknado 2Ā on SyFy.
In 2017, D.C. convinced the producers behind Sharknado to put him in Z Nation for a few episodes, as well as produce a Resident Evil homage film for SyFy – Isle of the Dead.
In 2022 D.C. ended his long running Notorious [Zombie Related] Erotic FanFic Show with a SRO crowd at Dragon*Con, coinciding with the hanging up his Wesker shades.
2023 brought Star Wars Jedi fans D.C. as the big, bad-ass Gen’Dai, Rayvis and 2024 saw D.C. once again embody helpful electronic for Apple TV+’s Wondla.
A Gadfly in The Political Arena
In 2010 he ran into a little trouble with the Tea Party which led to a YouTube hobby ā now known as Tweaked Nipple Productions. Recent videos include his Burn A Koran Day video (posted by The Huffington Post) and his Why #OccupyWallStreet? video (aired on MSNBCās The Last Word with Lawrence OāDonnell and posted on the MoveOn.org website).
In November, 2011, D.C. Douglas tweeted out a quote from a Tower Heist Q & A at the ArcLight Hollywood where Brett Ratner made a disparaging remark about homosexuals. The Hollywood Reporter subsequently reported Douglasā tweet as the beginning of a controversy which led to Ratner stepping down from the 2012 Oscars. No, we did not make this up! Oh, and he’s been blocked by Donald Trump on twitter. Go figure.
For the first half of the Trump idiocy/presidency, he wrote, produced, edited and voiced an internet cartoon:Ā Breaking News: Fake Trump Cartoons!Ā with Ć¼ber talented artist, Rachael Leone. The second half involved trying to survive the hellscape known as 2020-2021 .
The Unexpected Career
D.C. admits this was not how he envisioned his career would evolve when he moved to LA in 1985 but he’s grateful none-the-less. Instead of big Hollywood films whisking him around the country and world, it was videogame and anime comic cons. Instead of garnering TV sitcom fans, he became known to nerd culture. (A far better group of people to be lovingly harassed by.)
As for the path that got him here, he has always credited Carl Spiegelberg, Barbara Gill and Estelle Harman for packing his lunch pail of talentā¦ (Hopefully they never took too much offense.)
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