Sean Schemmel

Sean Schemmel

Sean Schemmel is an American voice actor for the English-language dub of the Pokémon anime.

Biography

Schemmel was born on November 21, 1968, in Waterloo, Iowa. His father left his mother while she was still pregnant with him, leaving Schemmel to be raised by a stepfather. He attended and graduated from North Texas State University, after which he pursued a voice acting career. Schemmel first joined the series during the sixth season. As with most other voice actors who worked with 4Kids Entertainment, he left when Pokémon USA and TAJ Productions took over the dubbing and distribution of the series. As of Nosing 'Round the Mountain!, Schemmel has returned to provide voices for many more characters.

Schemmel had moved to Los Angeles at some point during the XY series, and after a long absence, returned to the anime once more in Pokemon Journeys: The Series, starting with Raid Battle in the Ruins!.

Pokémon roles

Anime

Humans

Major

• Morrison
• Jimmy
• Archie
• Cyrus
• Juan
• Clay
• Robert
• Jervis
• Professor Lund
• Grings Kodai

Minor

• Professor Cozmo
• Mr. Moore
• Old Man Obee
• Ōyama
• Alan
• Christopher
• Olivier
• Professor Malveaux
• Rodney
• Leader
• Old man (AG035)
• Ever Grande Conference referee (AG126-AG129)
• Spectator (AG130)

Pokémon

Major

• Ash's Dracovish
• Stephan's Sawk
• Ingo's Chandelure
• Lucario (M08)
• Thundurus (anime)

Minor

• Trip's Lampent
• Leader's Lampent
• Lampent

Other animation

Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 Animated Trailer

• Hugh
• Colress

Video games

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U

• Lucario

Other non-Pokémon roles

• Son Goku, King Kai, Nail (Dragon Ball)
• Black Doom (Shadow the Hedgehog)
• Black Narcissus (Sonic X)
• Gonard (Kappa Mikey)
• Elliot Grant (Mew Mew Power)
• Flaste Schole (Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn)
• Mr. Haywood/Koji Seno (Magical DoReMi)
• Zander (Dinosaur King)
• Leichter (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Dr. Vellian Crowler, Ojama Yellow, Additional Voices (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)
• Zigzix (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's)
• Bronk Stone, Kazuma Tsukumo (Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal)
• Roto (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Maxxor, Ulmar (Chaotic)
• Valtor ("Baltor" in 4Kids dub) (Winx Club)
• Helmeppo and Hatchan (4Kids) (One Piece), Dr. Indigo (One Piece Film: Strong World)
• Onsokumaru (Ninja Nonsense)

Trivia

• Schemmel voices two leaders of villainous teams; Archie of Team Aqua and Cyrus of Team Galactic.
• Schemmel voiced Alva in a trailer for Volcanion and the Mechanical Marvel, but in the final product, Alva was voiced by Billy Bob Thompson.

References

This article is part of Project VA, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on voice actors in Pokémon animation and Pokémon games.