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Richard Steven Horvitz, also known as Richard Wood, is an American voice actor and comedian best known best known for his roles in animation such as Daggett in The Angry Beavers, Billy in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Grey Matter in Ben 10, Zim in Invader Zim, Bumble in Kinectimals, Kaos in the Skylanders video game series, Moxxie in Helluva Boss, and Razputin Aquato in the video game Psychonauts.

In Power Rangers, he voiced Alpha 5, Alpha 4, Alpha 7, Alpha 8 and Alpha 9.

Filmography[]

Richard also voiced Alpha 4 in Wild West Rangers, Datascammer in Power Rangers in Space, Smogger in Lightspeed Rescue, Mantamobile in Power Rangers: Time Force and Alpha 7 in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode "Forever Red".

Personal Life[]

  • Horvitz is married to playwright and screenwriter Kristen Lazarian. They have three sons.

Notes[]

  • Richard spells out the first part of Alpha 5's catchphrase as "ai" (like the Japanese word for love) when he does autographs for fans; when asked to do his voice he often says "Ai yi yi, Zordon, the Power Rangers are in trouble!".[1]
  • The Wedding is Richard's favorite Power Rangers episode because Alpha turns evil after being consumed by his jealousy and resentment of the Rangers; it's also described by him as the best one of the whole series because Alpha gets more screentime.
  • Richard enjoyed working on Alpha's Magical Christmas despite its infamy with the PR fanbase.
  • At Richard Steven Horvitz's question-and-answer panel at the 2014 EvilCon, Richard stated that Alpha 6 was a robot that "bugged the heck out of [him]" (see his article for the reason why) and that he doesn't understand how an Alpha robot can go from "ai yi yi" to "yo yo yo" and be voiced by a person of the opposite gender.[2] However, Richard does not mention Alpha 6's "reinstalled speech board" scene in In Space (in which he is voiced by Wendee Lee) nor Alpha 6's return in Overdrive, in which he is voiced by Campbell Cooley. He also has never explained why Saban chose to have Alpha 5 leave for Eltar, presumably to protect the little robot.

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