Reuben Langdon


Reuben Christopher Langdon is an American stuntman, motion-capture actor and voice actor. He has provided motion capture and voice for characters including but not limited to Dante in the Devil May Cry series, starting from ', Ken Masters since Street Fighter IV and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Chris Redfield in ', Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6. Through himself and his work with the motion capture studio Just Cause Productions, Reuben has been a part of the motion capture process for many games developed around the world, with recent projects being the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3.

Career

Langdon was born in Alaska and raised in Georgia.
Langdon began acting in Japan in B-Fighter Kabuto. Some action scenes from the show were reused in the US show Beetleborgs Metallix. Langdon moved to Hong Kong, where he continued to work on films.
He had a cameo role in Power Rangers Time Force in 2001 and performed a number of stunts in ' and '. Langdon has done stunts for television including ' and Dexter. Besides these, he has done stunts in movies such as The Medallion, Spider-Man 2, ', Night at the Museum 2, Ant-Man, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Avatar.
Langdon's sound performances are done mainly in Capcom video games. He first voiced Dante in Devil May Cry 3 and reprised the role in Devil May Cry 4, Devil May Cry 5 and Marvel vs. Capcom series. Langdon dubbed characters in the English Devil May Cry anime series. In addition, he voiced Ken Masters, the narrator of Street Fighter IV and .
For Devil May Cry 3, Devil May Cry 4, and Devil May Cry 5 Langdon also did the motion capture for certain scenes. During the development of Devil May Cry 3, Langdon found that doing the motion capture of Dante was difficult to the multiple moves the character makes. Langdon often discussed with the staff about Dante's characterization that was different from the original one as they wanted "a different spin." Eventually, Langdon decided to do his own rendition of Dante as he was confused with the staff's suggestions. In retrospective, Langdon finds Dante "the most difficult, frustrating and yet rewarding character" he has ever played and stated he grew attached with him. Langdon was told to make Devil May Cry 4s Dante similar to his Devil May Cry 3 persona albeit more mature. Despite the staff's concerns for the difficulties of such portrayal, Langdon had no issues after choosing Roy Focker from the anime series The Super Dimension Fortress Macross as his character model and noting he had almost the same age as Dante during production of the game. Langdon's performance as Dante in Devil May Cry 3 and Devil May Cry 4 received praise by GamesRadar for being the character's best voice actor noting that the two previous actors did not fit the character well.
He has also done stunt-work for the Uncharted series and The Last of Us where he played the character James, both games working opposite Nolan North.
While filming a documentary in Guatemala in February 2019, Langdon and Steve Copeland had their car fired on. The gunman then tried to break into the vehicle and opened fire again as the pair sped away.

Recognition

GamesRadar called Reuben Langdon Dante's best voice actor, noting that the two other actors did not fit the character well. Anime News Network agreed, saying that it made the character far more likable in the anime series despite flaws in its writing. IGN concurred, finding Langdon a better actor than Toshiyuki Morikawa due to his experience with the series.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotesSource
2008The MedallionHenchmanCredited as Reuben Christopher Langdon
2008Ninja CheerleadersSailorUncredited
2011The Green HornetCrackhead
2012Wreck-It RalphKen Masters Cameo
2015Ant-ManLab Guard
2017SleeplessPassenger

Animation

Video games