Greg Eagles

• 1. Introduction

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  Greg Eagles has spent decades giving voice to characters on opposite ends of the moral spectrum: a hockey-masked warrior in the Metal Gear Solid franchise, a rapping-obsessed kid in an animated pilot he created himself, and most famously, Death personified as a Jamaican-accented scythe-carrier named Grim. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Eagles was captivated by Looney Tunes cartoons and spent hours doing impressions of Mel Blanc, the veteran voice actor behind Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. That childhood obsession pointed toward something. The questions worth asking about Eagles are not simply which characters he has played, but how a single actor spans live-action detective roles, anime antiheroes, video game mascots, and a theme park narration that ran from 1999 to 2018. His career begins with a television film in 1993, and it leads somewhere you would not expect: a Kickstarter campaign with a $2,500 goal that still fell short.

• 2. From Milwaukee to the Screen

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  Eagles made his professional acting debut in 1993 in the television film Blindsided, playing a detective. Live action gave him his first credits, and the range of those credits is worth pausing on. His television appearances include NYPD Blue, Sister Sister, Pair of Kings, The Riches, and Snowfall, spread across more than two decades of working television. He appeared in three episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful in 1996 and again in 2010. He directed and produced the short film The Hepburn Effect in 2015, where he also acted. Feature film work brought him into the Garfield franchise across three entries released between 2007 and 2009, as well as a voice role in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the 2012 direct-to-video animated film. The live credits show an actor building a varied foundation while voice work was quietly becoming his primary identity.

• 3. The Grim Reaper Years

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  In 2001, Eagles began voicing Grim in the Cartoon Network series Grim and Evil, a character he would carry into the spin-off series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy from 2003 through 2007. Grim became his most recognizable role. Eagles reprised the character across multiple television films, including Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure and Underfist: Halloween Bash, and in the crossover episode The Grim Adventures of the KND, which brought Grim into contact with the cast of Codename: Kids Next Door. The role extended into video games as well: Eagles voiced Grim in the Billy and Mandy game in 2006, in the online game FusionFall in 2009, and in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion in 2011. Decades after the original series ended, the character resurfaced once more: Eagles returned as Grim in a 2025 episode of Jellystone!, titled Crisis on Infinite Mirths.

• 4. Aku Aku and the Crash Legacy

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  Since 2007, Eagles has been the voice of Aku Aku, the mask-shaped spirit guide in the Crash Bandicoot franchise. He took on the role beginning with Crash of the Titans and has continued through Crash: Mind over Mutant, the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, and Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time in 2020. Aku Aku is one of gaming's more distinctive companion characters: a floating tribal mask that offers advice, protection, and a memorable vocal presence. Eagles also provided the character's voice in Skylanders: Imaginators in 2016. The longevity of this role across reboots, remasters, and crossover titles marks it as one of the defining ongoing commitments of his voice career.

• 5. Metal Gear and Mortal Kombat

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  Eagles voiced Gray Fox and Donald Anderson in the original Metal Gear Solid in 1998, roles that put him inside one of the most story-dense game franchises in the medium. He returned as Peter Stillman in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty in 2001, and reprised Donald Anderson in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes in 2004. Each entry required him to inhabit a different character within the same sprawling narrative world. Outside that franchise, Eagles gave voice to Garcian Smith in Killer7 in 2005, a title notable for its unusual visual and narrative style. In 2015, he voiced both Jax Briggs and Baraka in Mortal Kombat X, two fighters with very different physiologies and backstories. His appearance in Grand Theft Auto V in 2013, providing additional voices, suggests a continuing demand for his work in large ensemble game productions.

• 6. Anime and Voice Range

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  Eagles voiced Sulik in Fallout 2 in 1998, a companion character who travels with the player through much of that game. In anime dubbing, he played O'Connor in 8 Man After, voiced Brother 6 and Rokutaro in both Afro Samurai and its follow-up film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and voiced the same characters in the Afro Samurai video game in 2009. He also took on Zommari Rureaux and Gantenbainne Mosqueda in Bleach during 2007 and 2008. On children's television, he voiced Captain Bob and Sketch Pad in the HBO series Crashbox. He also voiced Blind Mud Puddle Johnson in Cow and Chicken, a Cartoon Network series where he appeared across two episodes in 1998 and 1999. The narrator credit at The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad, a Universal theme park attraction, ran from 1999 to 2018.

• 7. Teapot and the Original Work

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  Eagles created and starred in Teapot, an animated pilot about a boy who wants to be a rapping superstar. The short aired as part of Random! Cartoons in 2007. Dahveed Kolodny Nagy, the creator of Supa Pirate Booty Hunt, handled storyboarding and art direction alongside Alex Almaguer, who had written and worked as a storyboard artist on Billy and Mandy. Robert Alvarez directed the pilot. Eagles intended Teapot to become a full television series and produced an online opening sequence and theme song while awaiting a pickup. A Kickstarter and a later Indiegogo campaign raised funds for a video game adaptation called Teapot Rap it Up!, but the project failed to reach its $2,500 goal. The Indiegogo campaign has since been lost. Whether Teapot eventually finds a home as a series remains an open question for Eagles, now more than a decade after the pilot first aired.