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Eric Meyers

Eric Meyers

Birthday: 1957-10-22 | Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA

Eric Meyers is an American actor, voice actor, and narrator, 5′ 6″ (168 cm) tall, originally from New York, now based in London. He graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Broadcasting (1977–1981), where he was general manager of the campus radio station, and began his career in radio at KSAN and KGO in San Francisco and KCRW and KABC in Los Angeles before transitioning to voiceover and acting in the 1990s. He has accumulated over 120 credits across film, television, animation, video games, and documentary narration, and his voice was sampled for Fatboy Slim's hit single "Slash Dot Dash." His most notable film credits include a role in Snatch (2000, directed by Guy Ritchie), a role in Entrapment (1999, with Sean Connery), a role in Shanghai Knights (2003, with Jackie Chan and OWen Wilson), David Pike in Woman in Gold (2015, with Helen Mirren), Eric Randall in A Hologram for the King (2016, with Tom Hanks), a Monster Puppeteer in Beau Is Afraid (2023, directed by Ari Aster), and a Key Club Member in Patrick Melrose (2018, with Benedict Cumberbatch). As a narrator he is best known for I Shouldn't Be Alive, NOVA (PBS), Animal Fight Night, and When Sharks Attack, and for narrating the South Park episode "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" (2012). In animation he voiced Henry the Lizard in Amazing Animals (Disney Channel, every episode), and in video games he has provided voices for Cyberpunk 2077 and Beyond a Steel Sky.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
2025
Can Dogs Talk?

as    Self - Narrator

2025
7 Bears

as    The Narrator / Puss in Boots (voice)

2021
Murderous History

as    Narrator

2020
Eagle Power

as    Self - Narrator

2019
Decoding the Great Pyramid

as    Narrator

2019
Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire

as    Self - Narrator

2019
Rise of the Rockets

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2018
World's Fastest Animal

as    Narrator

2018
Great Escape at Dunkirk

as    Self - Narrator

2017
Aerial Ireland

as    Narrator

2016
China's Emperor of Evil

as    Narrator

2015
The Great Polar Bear Feast

as    Narrator

2014
747: The Jumbo Revolution

as    Jack Waddell

2014
Autopsy: The Last Hours of...

as    Self - Narrator (voice)

2014
Escape from a Nazi Death Camp

as    narrator

2013
Ace Discovery

as    Jet / Bosley

2013
Mankind Decoded

as    Self - Narrator

2012
The Nazi Gospels

as    Narrator

2011
2011
Tornado Rampage

as    narrator

2008