Gerald "Jerry" Oliver Russell (born January 5, 1936 in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA; passed September 5, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA) was an American voice actor working for FUNimation Entertainment. He died early in the morning of September 5, 2013 due to pneumonia he contracted after an emergency abdominal surgery. He was 77. He was known for voicing Aroldo Eklund in Spice and Wolf II, Froi Tiedoll in D.Gray-Man, Kogan Iwamoto in Shigurui: Death Frenzy, Lamies in Shakugan no Shana III (Final), Ohji in Casshern Sins, Papa in Initial D: First Stage, Saburota Negishi in Princess Jellyfish, Mr. Cho in Witchblade, and Tim Marcoh in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
He was also known as Joe West.
Anime Voice Work
Anime - Dubbing
- Appleseed XIII - Poeas (ep10)
- BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad - Additional Voices
- Basilisk - Guard (ep23), Samurai (ep24), Additional Voices
- Birdy the Mighty: Decode - Sumida (ep3)
- Birdy the Mighty Decode:02 - Sumida
- Black Blood Brothers - Additional Voices
- Black Butler - Additional Voices
- Black Cat - Additional Voices
- Blassreiter - Additional Voices
- Burst Angel - Estrada (ep11), Governor Glenford, Additional Voices
- Case Closed - Detective Simpson (ep90), Ty Sherwood (ep93)
- Casshern Sins - Ohji
- D.Gray-Man - General Froi Tiedoll (eps37-51)
- Dance in the Vampire Bund - Juneau Dermailles (ep4)
- Darker than Black - Shao-Tang Wang (ep9)
- Deadman Wonderland - Additional Voices
- Desert Punk - Kazuo Koike (ep2)
- Dragonaut -The Resonance- - Kiril Jajaev
- Eden of the East - Additional Voices
- El Cazador de la Bruja - Old Man
- Fairy Tail - Lucky, Zekua Melon/Kemu Zaleon
- Fractale - Gramps Elder, Additional Voices
- Fullmetal Alchemist - Concerned Estate Guard (ep51)
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Tim Marcoh
- Ghost Hunt - Principal
- Glass Fleet - Pope Gorna (eps16-25)
- Guilty Crown - Major General Yan
- Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino - Domenico
- Hell Girl - Fukumoto (ep13), Security Guard (ep5)
- Hero Tales - Additional Voices
- Initial D: First Stage - Papa
- Initial D: Second Stage - Papa
- Jormungand - Chen Guoming
- Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine - Dr. Fritz Kaiser (ep10)
- Michiko & Hatchin - Jair (ep14)
- Mushi-Shi - Boss (ep23), Fisherman (ep5), Man (ep18), Villager (ep4)
- Oh! Edo Rocket - Heihachiro Oshio (ep3)
- One Piece - Center Baskerville, Crocus, Hocker (ep6), Mechao, Toto, Additional Voices
- Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - Judge (ep8B)
- Princess Jellyfish - Saburota Negishi
- RIN ~Daughters of Mnemosyne~ - Additional Voices
- Rideback - Additional Voices
- Romeo x Juliet - Tubal
- Samurai 7 - Additional Voices
- Sands of Destruction - Additional Voices
- Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings - Hōjō Ujimasa
- Sgt. Frog - Additional Voices
- Shakugan no Shana II (Second) - Lamies
- Shakugan no Shana III (Final) - Lamies
- Shangri-La - Old Man Camera
- Shigurui: Death Frenzy - Kogan Iwamoto
- Shiki - Oitarou
- Shin-chan - Doc, Additional Voices
- Speed Grapher - Seiji Ochiai, Additional Voices
- Spice and Wolf II - Aroldo Eklund
- Strike Witches - Grandfather Miyafuji (ep1)
- Strike Witches 2 - Additional Voices
- The Galaxy Railways - Kenderick (ep17)
- The Legend of the Legendary Heroes - Count Kriade (ep8), Gainel (ep5), Additional Voices
- The Sacred Blacksmith - Narrator, Additional Voices
- Trinity Blood - Demon (ep8), Detective (ep8)
- Witchblade - Mr. Cho
Anime Shorts - Dubbing
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 4-Koma Theater - Tim Marcoh
Movies - Dubbing
- Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker - Additional Voices
- Eden of the East: Paradise Lost - Former Prime Minister Eda
- Eden of the East: The King of Eden - Prime Minister Eda
- Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance - Additional Voices
- Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa - Arguing Veteran A, Josef's Drinking Buddy, Munich Driver
- Heaven's Lost Property The Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork - Additional Voices
- One Piece The Movie: Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates - Toto
- Trigun: Badlands Rumble - Additional Voices
- Vexille - Politician 3
- Wolf Children - Grandpa Nirasaki
OVA - Dubbing
- Baldr Force EXE - Old Man, Scientist (ep4)
- Burst Angel: Infinity - Governor Glenford
- Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar - Pope, Additional Voices
Web Anime - Dubbing
- Hetalia: World Series - Additional Voices
Trivia
- Number of VA titles on this wiki: (77)
- He was the acting teacher of fellow voice actor Barry Yandell.
- He founded the Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas.
- He was the father of Texan Senator Wendy Davis.