Original Crash Bandicoot voice actor dies aged 60
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Brendan O’Brien voiced not just Crash Bandicoot but several of his villains in the Naughty Dog era of PlayStation 1 games.
Long time fans of the Crash Bandicoot games are in mourning at the moment, as they have recently learned of the death of one of its original voice actors, Brendan O’Brien.
Both of O’Brien’s parents were actors and he primarily worked for movies and TV shows, but he was perhaps best known for being the voice behind Crash Bandicoot.
He may never have spoken full sentences, but he provided all of Crash’s various yelps and screams (including the now memetic ‘woah!’) which many fans still remember dearly.
It wasn’t just Crash either. He did the voices of several of the series’ villains as well, including Tiny Tiger and N. Gin. He even voiced main antagonist Dr Cortex, at least for the first game.
Aside from the original trilogy of PlayStation 1 games, O’Brien worked on the kart racer Crash Team Racing, party game Crash Bash, and Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath Of Cortex (the first post-Naughty Dog mainline entry).
He took a hiatus from acting in 2004 but did pop up in an episode of Riverdale as a maths teacher in 2020.
His voice lines for Crash were re-used for a handful of Game Boy Advance games but he was eventually replaced by Jess Harnell in 2005, who voiced Crash for the next 14 years of games.
The current voice of Crash is Scott Whyte, who took over with Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time.
Film
Year Title Role Notes
1973 Honor Thy Father Child TV movie
1989 Hollywood Chaos Guido Luini Indie film
1995 Get Street Smart: A Kid's Guide to Stranger Dangers Capricorn's Dad (voice) Short film
1996 The Legend of Galgameth Heretic
1997 Casper: A Spirited Beginning Terrified Worker Direct-to-video
1998 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain Zed
1999 P.U.N.K.S. Repo Supervisor
2000 The Trial of Old Drum Brendan TV movie
Wild Grizzly Earl TV movie
2001 Race to Space Centrifuge Technician
2003 Grindhouse Father Holloway
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1991 Candid Camera Pincushion/Self 2 episodes
1992 The Amazing Live Sea-Monkeys Milkman / Award Presenter 2 episodes
1997 Spicy City Additional voices Episode: "Love Is a Download"
1997–1999 Todd MacFarlane's Spawn Additional voices 6 episodes
2020 Riverdale Math Teacher Episode: "Chapter Seventy-Four: Wicked Little Town"
2021 The Slowest Show Male Millionaire TV Mini-series
Episode: "Bowling Alley"; Final role
Video games
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Crash Bandicoot Crash Bandicoot, Doctor Neo Cortex, Doctor Nitrus Brio
1997 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Crash Bandicoot, Doctor Nitrus Brio, Doctor N. Gin, Komodo Moe, Tiny Tiger
1998 Crash Bandicoot: Warped Crash Bandicoot, Tiny Tiger, Doctor N. Gin
1999 Crash Team Racing Tiny Tiger, N. Gin, Pinstripe Potoroo
2000 Crash Bash Crash Bandicoot, Tiny Tiger, Doctor Nitrus Brio, Komodo Moe, Papu Papu
2001 Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Crash Bandicoot, Tiny Tiger
2002 Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure Crash Bandicoot Archive recordings
2003 Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced Crash Bandicoot, Fake Crash
2004 Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage Crash Bandicoot
2016 Uncharted 4: A Thief's End Crash Bandicoot
Crew work
Year Title Position Notes
1987 Keep on Crusin' Writer TV series
Contributing writer
1990 Guys Next-Door Writer TV series short
Contributing writer
1994 The Secret World of Alex Mack Drama coach, dialogue coach 4 episodes
1997 In Cold Sweat Writer Video
As Alex Smart
2000 Wild Grizzly Composer Television film
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