Richard Steven Horvitz


Richard Steven Horvitz, sometimes credited as Richard Wood, is an American film, stage, television and voice actor. His voice credits include the original Alpha 5 on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers Turbo, Raz in Psychonauts, Kaos in Skylanders, Billy in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Grey Matter in Ben 10, Daggett in The Angry Beavers, the titular character in Invader Zim, Orthopox in Destroy All Humans!, the Zoni in Ratchet & Clank, Bumble in Kinectimals, the Space Weaver in Broken Age, and Moxxie in the recent pilot Helluva Boss by Vivziepop.

Early life

Horvitz was born, grew up, resides and currently works in Los Angeles. He was born to a Jewish family. He has taught voice acting and theater at the California State University, Northridge.

Career

Horvitz first appeared in a 1976 Freshen Up Gum commercial, which led to other commercial appearances and several hand modeling jobs. After a brief stint in an off-Broadway production of Oliver!, he went on to make appearances on television series such as Kids Incorporated and Safe at Home and films, such as Summer School, How I Got Into College and Deadly Weapon. He also starred as Howie for two seasons on the 1988 syndicated television sitcom The Munsters Today which lasted three years until 1991. Howie was best friend of Marilyn Munster. Starting in 1993, Horvitz changed the focus of his career to voice acting, starting with the voice of Alpha 5 on the live-action series Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. From there, he expanded into several other particular voice roles on such animated shows as The Angry Beavers, Invader Zim, Kim Possible, Dave the Barbarian, Zatch Bell!, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Ben 10, Squirrel Boy and Shorty McShorts' Shorts as Dudley. After his stint as Alpha 5 ended, Horvitz went on to voice a few monsters in other Power Rangers series, and was also the voice of Alpha 7 in the ' episode "Forever Red". He also played the main character Raz in Psychonauts and Orthopox in Destroy All Humans!, Destroy All Humans! 2 and Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon in a voice that closely resembles that of Zim. He has voiced various NPCs in EverQuest 2. He voiced the Berserker Darklings in The Darkness, Bumble in Kinectimals and Kaos in '. Horvitz also voiced "Green Grapes" in the Fruit of the Loom commercials. He has also acted on stage, including in Jeffrey Hatcher's "Mrs. Mannerly" in Boston.

Personal life

Horvitz lives with his wife, playwright and screenwriter Kristen Lazarian, and their three sons. The couple's oldest was mentioned at an event promoting The Angry Beavers. He and Lazarian wrote an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy with the episode's storyboard artist C. H. Greenblatt, entitled "Keeper of the Reaper".

Filmography

Live-action