Videogames give actors a 2nd innings

You may know actor Keith David for starring opposite Kurt Russell in the 1982 horror film The Thing , or for his Tony Award-winning role in the 1992 production of Jelly's Last Jam .

Videogamers, however, will more likely recognize David for his role as the Arbiter, the deep-voiced alien "co-star" in Microsoft's best-selling Halo videogames.

"I'm not a big videogame player," David said. "But once I was on the set of a film and one of the grips came up to me and said 'I know you're the voice of the Arbiter, can I have your autograph?'"

Videogames have helped resuscitate the careers of many film and television actors, whose distinctive voices can make them a hot commodity in the game world even as their status in Hollywood fades. The surge in games using big-screen voice talent could even rewrite industry pay scales as actors angle for a bigger piece of the $18 billion US video-game market.


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