Redd Pepper

Richardson Green, known professionally as Redd Pepper, (born 23 June 1961) is a Barbadian-British voice actor and former train driver.

Redd Pepper
Born
Richardson Green

(1961-06-23) June 23, 1961
Barbados
EducationSedgehill School
Occupation
  • Voice actor
  • train driver
Years active1996–present

Pepper is notable for his work providing theatrical trailers for movies such as Amistad, The Blair Witch Project, Men in Black, and Boogie Nights. His vocal style is similar to that of Don LaFontaine.

Early life and career

Born Richardson Green in Barbados,[1] Pepper moved to London when he was very young with his six sisters and three brothers.[1] He attended Sedgehill School in Lewisham, southeast London.

His first job was at a McDonald's restaurant, after which he spent six months as a fireman, and then became a train driver on the London Underground.[1] He claims to have got bored very easily, and used to stop the train between stations, turn off the lights, and start talking on the loudspeaker system. "I used to say stuff like: 'This is your driver speaking... or is it?' in a really spooky voice."[1]

It was in 1996 that a television executive passenger on one of his trains offered him his card, and asked him to call him.[1] After providing numerous voiceovers for TV channels and adverts, he began doing movie trailers, with his first being Space Jam in 1996.[2] He also voiced Mike LeRoi/Shadow Man in the video game Shadow Man.

He came to prominence following his voice-over work for Armageddon and Independence Day,[3] when he was mistaken for Hollywood voice artist Don LaFontaine. Asked if he missed being a Tube driver, he responded: "Listen, I make £3,000 to £4,000 per movie trailer. What do you think?"[1]

Pepper is also a stage actor, having appeared in an Edinburgh Festival production of Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diaries. On 24 December 2010, he was on a celebrity version of BBC's Eggheads television show.

Redd is a supporter of English football club Aston Villa.

In October 2015, Pepper replaced Peter Dickson as the voiceover of British reality show The X Factor. However, he was only present as a voiceover at Judges' Houses, as Dickson announced his return on 30 October 2015.

In April 2017, Pepper served as announcer during Bradley Walsh's week of hosting The Nightly Show.

Filmography

Film trailers
Year Title Notes
1996 Independence Day UK dub
Space Jam
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Men in Black
Boogie Nights
1998 Armageddon
1999 The Blair Witch Project
2005 Are We There Yet?
2007 Are We Done Yet?
Mr. Bean's Holiday

Film
Year Title Role Notes
2004 Boo, Zino & the Snurks Bramph (voice) English dub
2005 Back to Gaya Bramph [4]
2019 Serenity Plymouth DJ (voice)

Television
Year Title Role Notes
2007 Deadline Himself 1 episode
2008 The Culture Show Himself 1 episode
2010 Celebrity Eggheads Himself
2011 The One Show 1 episode
2013 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 1 episode
Golden Joystick Awards: The Briefing Narrator
2014 How to be epic at everything Himself 1 episode
2014–2015 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway Himself 2 episodes
2015 The X Factor Announcer
2017 The Nightly Show Himself 5 episodes
2017–2019 Pointless Celebrities 2 episodes
2021 Big Fat Quiz of Everything Himself 1 episode
2021 Life Of A Teddy Bear Harriet Bear 1 episode
2021 Flamingo Fantasies Hamilton 28 episodes

Video games
Year Title Role Notes
1999 Shadow Man Mike/Shadow Man
2000 Imperium Galactica II: Alliances Additional voices
Blade Blade [4]
Gothic Drax
2001 Shadow Man: 2econd Coming Mike/Shadow Man
2002 Vietcong Additional voices
2004 Vietcong: Fist Alpha Additional voices
Vietcong: Purple Haze Additional voices
2017 Mass Effect: Andromeda Additional voices

See also

References
  1. Dom Joly (2007). "Sound of the Underground" (PDF). Deadline. pp. 8 & 9. Retrieved 4 August 2007.
  2. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4792011
  3. https://www.shadowandact.com/amp/meet-redd-pepper-the-iconic-voiceover-artist-behind-hollywoods-biggest-trailers
  4. "Redd Pepper - 2 Character Images". Behind The Voice Actors.
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