Jim French
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September 23, 1928[1] |
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December 20, 2017[1] |
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James Rowley "Jim" French was the voice actor for Father Grigori in Half-Life 2 and the Fisherman in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast.
Biography[edit]
French was mostly a radio personality and producer who had written and produced such shows as The Adventures of Harry Nile and The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series. As a voice actor, he also provided the voice of Bill in Left 4 Dead.
Along with Mary Kae Irvin, French was one of the voice actors from the Seattle area firm that Sierra and Valve used to cast the roles in the GoldSrc game Gunman Chronicles. Half-Life series writer Marc Laidlaw was present for the Gunman recording sessions wherein French played the scientist characters, and he liked his voice and performance enough that he wished to bring him back for a role in a Valve title, keeping him in mind years later when French was eventually cast as Father Grigori.[2] French was hesitant on taking the role as he was worried it would offend someone's religion, but Laidlaw assured him that he had respectfully made up a gnostic church just for the character. French had initially referred a friend of his who was said to have performed an imitation of Bela Lugosi.[3]
French died in December 2017 at the age of 89.[1]
Selected gameography[edit]
- Half-Life 2 (2004)
- Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (2005)
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jim French (1928 - 2017) on Legacy.com
- ↑ Marc Laidlaw on the Gunman Chronicles voice actors
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Tweet: "As soon as we came up with Grigori we wanted him to do it but he didn't want to because he was afraid it would offend someone's religion. I had to explain I had respectfully made up a gnostic church just for Grigori. First he sent us a friend who did a Bela Lugosi imitation." @marc_laidlaw (Marc Laidlaw) on Twitter (April 29, 2020) (archived)
External links[edit]
Jim French on Wikipedia
Jim French on IMDb
