SPECIAL EPISODE: Tony Oliver Interview (Anime Central 2026)

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 Tony Oliver Interview (Anime Central 2026)

This week we sat down with Tony Oliver who was named to IMDB’s top 20 all time Anime Voice Actors list, began his career as an actor on stage and camera performing in several feature films and dozens of plays. He found success as a voice artist, lending his voice to one of the first Anime features to a receive wide US television release - "The Sea Prince and the Fire Child". His first foray into series television was as the voice of Rick Hunter in the groundbreaking anime series "Robotech". Following that he turned his attention to writing but continued his voice acting career. In 1988 he joined Saban Entertainment as a story editor where he wrote and co-produced an award-winning adaptation of "The Jungle Book". Tony was then tapped to help create a new kind of children's television show. The result was the mega hit, "The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers". He served as the development producer and head writer and also wrote the pilot, Co-Produced the series, directed the voice actors, played the voice of Saba, and produced and directed the Power Rangers live appearance at Universal Studios, which drew an estimated 50,000 people on a single day. 

After leaving Saban Entertainment, Tony continued to develop, produce, direct, and act in numerous Theatrical film, Television, Video Game, and Streaming Media projects including “Daigunder” for ABC Family/Disney; “Gurren Lagann” for the Sci Fi Channel, “Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers” which premiered on theatrical screens nationwide, and numerous video games including “BlazBlue: Continuum Shift”. “.hack//GU”, “Delta Force: Black Hawk Down”, “Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring”, “Dynasty Warriors”, “World of Warcraft”,”Basara 3” and “Bravely Default”. 

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