Mike Shapiro

[DrkBlueXG]

Mike Shapiro, who is known for voicing Barney and The G-man in HL2, has his own (albeit, boring and bland) website that shows off his voice talents for commercials, tv cartoons and characters, etc.
You can find his website here. Mike Shapiro's Official Website
This isn't meant to be of any use but it's just a little tidbit for those that like to know stuff about the making of games/movies.

 

[MoFo]

i find it fascinating how barney and the G man is the same voice actor... they really don't sound alike!

 

[Sir_Shunt]

Thats the power of a good actor ^^

 

[MoFo]

i saw another website of him though, about his composer-work and stuff... it had a bio on him, and it mentioned his voice acting for Valve software too... and it didn't look like this site at all

 

[el Chi]

All hail King Shapiro! Hip hip - HUZZAH. Hip hip HUZZAH!

 

[Steve]

Dude! One of the samples contains a spot for one of my local malls! Sweet!

 

[MoFo]

listening to the ''character_reads'' soundclip... great stuff!

i think he mentioned HL2 or HL1 in there somewhere... ''and it jumps at you, and it's all 3d, and you smack it, and it goes flying all the way in the back there..''

 

[MoFo]

also, you can hear the likeliness of barney and a little bit of gman in some of the voices in the narrator clip...

 

[doomed - uk]

Edit: Oops, I'm just repeating stuff.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

i find it fascinating how barney and the G man is the same voice actor... they really don't sound alike!

That's usually what it takes to be a voice actor, and yet I never stop to be amazed over what some people can do with their voices.

 

[DrkBlueXG]

Barney IS the G-man!
Conspiracy theorists around the gaming world unite! lol j/k

 

[Zento]

Someone email him about HL2 expansions!

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

He looks like Barney kind of.

I think Valve's been modelling the characters after the voice actors. Almost all of them look like their actors (Mossman, Eli, Alyx, and now Barney)

http://www.mikeshapiro.com/images/Headshot.jpg

 

[DoctorGordon3]

He looks like Barney kind of.

I think Valve's been modelling the characters after the voice actors. Almost all of them look like their actors (Mossman, Eli, Alyx, and now Barney)

http://www.mikeshapiro.com/images/Headshot.jpg

Yes...only not.