Eric Meyers
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 22, 1957 (age 69)
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
House of Horrors: Kidnapped in Cleveland
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Autopsy the last hours of Johnny Carson
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Animal Farm
Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)
Space Station: We Have A Problem
Movie · as Narrator
Can Dogs Talk?
Movie · as Self - Narrator
7 Bears
TV · as The Narrator / Puss in Boots (voice) · 10 eps
Murderous History
TV · as Narrator · 6 eps
Dragon Rider
Movie · as Sulphurbreath (voice)
Eagle Power
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Rise of the Rockets
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Decoding the Great Pyramid
Movie · as Narrator
Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire
Movie · as Self - Narrator
World's Fastest Animal
Movie · as Narrator
Great Escape at Dunkirk
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Patrick Melrose
TV · as Key Club Member · 1 ep
Ultimate Cruise Ship
Movie
Aerial Ireland
Movie · as Narrator
China's Emperor of Evil
Movie · as Narrator
A Hologram for the King
Movie · as Eric Randall
The Great Polar Bear Feast
Movie · as Narrator
Raiders of the Jade Empire
Movie · as Narrator
747: The Jumbo Revolution
Movie · as Jack Waddell, Narrator
Escape from a Nazi Death Camp
Movie · as narrator
Autopsy: The Last Hours of...
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 181 eps
East Meets West: The Birth Of Civilization
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Fleming
TV · as Colonel William Stephenson · 4 eps
Ace Discovery
Movie · as Jet / Bosley
Mankind Decoded
TV · as Self - Narrator · 12 eps
The Nazi Gospels
Movie · as Narrator
Ultimate Warfare
TV · 10 eps
Tornado Rampage
Movie · as narrator
MegaQuake: The Hour That Shook Japan
Movie · as Narrator
The Special Relationship
Movie · as American Journalist
Dork Hunters From Outer Space
TV · as Eddie · 36 eps
Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter?
Movie · as (voice)
1408
Movie · as Man #1 at Bookstore
Zorro: Return to the Future
Movie · as (voice)
The Contract
Movie · as Truck Driver
The First Emperor
Movie · as Narrator
Control
Movie · as Store Manager
Action Man: Robot ATAK
Movie · as Red Wolf (voice)
High Hitler
Movie · as Narrator (US release)
Shanghai Knights
Movie · as Front Desk Clerk
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow
Movie · as Nathaniel / Trucker / Mr. Van Tassel
Body Armor Secrets of a Second Skin
Movie
Just Visiting
Movie · as Family Man
Tornado Chasers
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Snatch
Movie · as Avi's Colleague
Entrapment
Movie · as Waverly Technician
Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
TV · as Finnigan (voice) · 1 ep
Character Building
Movie
NOVA
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps