Gary Anthony Sturgis

Gary Anthony Sturgis
Sturges in February 2008
Born	Gary Anthony Sturgis (1966-11-03) November 3, 1966 (age 58) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Other names	Gary Sturgis
Occupations	Actor musician writer teacher entrepreneur
Years active	1986–present

Gary Anthony Sturgis is an American actor, musician, writer, teacher and entrepreneur, known for his role as Bar Patron and other characters in the television series America's Most Wanted, and for providing the voice of Ebon in the animated series Static Shock. He is also known by the rap moniker of Illuminati, having successfully promoted a few albums on iTunes.

Early life

Sturgis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is the second oldest son of four born to Abraham and Sarah Sturgis. He grew up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended McDonogh Senior High School where he played piccolo and served as drum major for the band. After writing an essay for a class assignment expressing his love and desire for acting, a teacher invited him to a table read for a play, and Sturgis was cast as the understudy; later going on to play the lead role of A Raisin in the Sun.

Career

Sturgis made his acting debut in the romantic thriller film The Big Easy (1986). He later starred in the film Blaze (1989) as Marquez' Son.^[1]

Sturgis later appeared as an antagonist in two of Tyler Perry's movies, Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) and Daddy's Little Girls (2007),^[1] as well as the movie Pride (2007), starring Terrence Howard, and co-stars in the independent feature directed by Cedric the Entertainer,^[2] Chicago Pulaski Jones. He landed television roles in his early career such as a recurring character by the name of Caz in the General Hospital spin-off, Port Charles, as well as smaller roles on The District, NYPD Blue, Malcolm and Eddie and Girlfriends.^[1]

In the mid-1990s, he began booking voice-over jobs in commercials and trailers. He served as the voice of the Monday night (and later Tuesday night) lineup on the now defunct UPN network, promoting such series as The Parkers, Moesha, Half & Half, Girlfriends, The Hughleys and many others. Simultaneously in 1997 and 1998, he was also the daily announcer for the late night talk show, VIBE, starring Chris Spencer and later, comedian Sinbad. Sturgis never had a contract for either job stating that he would just "keep coming everyday until they tell me to stop." This lasted for the duration of the network and the talk show respectively.^[3]

Sturgis appeared on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter in 2002 in celebration of his voice over efforts. In addition to promos for network television, he also did several Hollywood movie trailers such as Bones, The Wood, Crossroads, Two Can Play That Game and The Others.

Sturgis was interviewed by fashion editor Antoine Von Boozier exclusively for Floss Magazine^{[permanent dead link‍]}. The interview was published on March 7, 2016.

Sturgis played several animated roles landing himself in cartoons, feature films and in video games. A partial list includes, Static Shock, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, Batman Beyond, Batman: The Brave and the Bold and The Fairly OddParents: Wishology. Video game titles include Shout About Music, True Crime: New York City, Evil Dead, Spider-Man 2 and Red Faction. His role in Batman: The Brave and the Bold as the DC Comics anti-hero Bronze Tiger was also reprised in the PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS video game Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate. In February 2009, he worked on Blokhedz animated web series on Missiong.com and did the voice of Biskit, the leader of the biker gang Wild Dawgs.

In October 2008, Sturgis began working as a staff writer for Tyler Perry Studios on the series Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Meet the Browns, both on TBS. This would mark his first professional writing job. His first credited episode of Tyler Perry's House of Payne aired on December 16, 2008. Outside of acting, he works as a musician, writer, teacher and entrepreneur.^[1]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	The Big Easy	Car vandel #1
1989	Blaze	Marquez' Son
1994	Virtuosity	Officer at Video Store
1995	Tornado Run	Pilot
1997	Volcano	Homeless Man in Park	Uncredited
2001	Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase	The Phantom Virus	Voice, direct-to-video[4]
2005	The Crib	Rapping Mike	Short film
2005	Diary of a Mad Black Woman	Jamison Milton Jackson
2007	Daddy's Little Girls	Joe
	Pride	Franklin
2009	The Adventure of Umbweki	Pretty Tony
2010	A Gang Land Love Story	Paul Revere
2011	Joshua Tree	Darryl
2011	Dance Fu	Daddy J
2012	Battlefield America	Eric Smith Sr.
	The Devil Is My Witness	Larcen	Short film
	Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Part 1	Silk	Voice, direct-to-video[4]
2013	Day of Redemption	Daryl
2014	Justice League: War	Teammate #2	Voice, direct-to-video[4]
2015	Lucky Girl	Darnell Riggins Sr.
2016	Dirty	Detective Bishop
	Hav Faith	Xavier Dunbar
2017	CainAbel	Adam
	Busted	Nathan
2018	We Belong Together	Jefferson
	The Stuff	Sonny
	Everything That Glitters	Carl Robinson
	Ole Bryce	Malcolm Wyatt
2020	The Regiment

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988–1989	America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back	Bar Patron, Lee Nell Carter's victim, Leroy Carter	TV documentary series; 3 episodes
1996	High Society	Paramedic	Episode: "Alice Doesn't Pump Here Anymore"
	NYPD Blue	Larry Blueford	Episode: "Yes, We Have No Cannolis"
1997	Chicago Sons	Waiter	Episode: "A Foursome Is Not Necessarily a Good Thing"
	Malcolm & Eddie	Richard	Episode: "The Commercial"
	High Incident	Unknown role	Episode: "Excessive Force"
1997	Extreme Ghostbusters	Roland	Voice, episode: "Darkness at Noon: Part 1"; uncredited
2000–2004	Static Shock	Ivan Evans / Ebon, Duke	Voice, 10 episodes[4]
2000–2001	Batman Beyond	Kobra Driver, Howard Reubens, Punk	3 episodes[4]
2001	The District	Henry G. Charters, Officer Cory Willis	2 episodes
2003	Port Charles	Caz	11 episodes
2005	Teen Titans	Gordanian, Trogaar	Voice, episode: "Go"[4]
2006	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Gow	Voice, episode: "Zuko Alone"[4]
2008	Girlfriends	Contractor	Episode: "Adapt to Adopt"
2008–2009	K-9 Cops	Narrator	Voice, 16 episodes
2009	Meet the Browns	Teddy, Theodore	Episode: "Meet the Dangerous and the Deadline" Also writer
	House of Payne	Mr. Orlando	Episode: "Slightly Payneful Truth" Also writer
	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Bronze Tiger	Voice, episode: "Return of the Fearsome Fangs!"[4]
	The Fairly OddParents	Lead Eliminator, Destructinator, Huginator	Voice, episode: "Wishology"[4]
2012	The Soul Man	Parishioner	Episode: "Lost in the Move"
2012–2013	Hot in Cleveland	Officer Davenport, Cop	2 episodes
2014	Beware the Batman	Guard	Voice, episode: "Attraction"[4]
2015	Will to Love	John Hawkins	Television film
2016	The Sin Within	James Morris	4 episodes
2018	5th Ward	Blue	6 episodes
2019	The Probe	Nard	Television film
2020	Pole Magic	Terrance Coleman

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
1994	Corpse Killer	Fleming
2001	Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase	Phantom Virus
2002	Spider-Man	Kraven the Hunter, Dr. Rue
	Red Faction 2	Lars Repta
2003	Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick
2004	Spider-Man 2	Luke Cage, additional voices
2005	True Crime: New York City		Credited as Gary Sturgis	[5]
2013	Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate	Bronze Tiger

Web

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Blokhedz	Biskit	Animated web series on Missiong.com

References

1. Gary Sturgis: The Sweet Sound of Success, lastheplace.com. August 19, 2007.
2. Hollywood Reporter, March 12, 2008.
3. Inland Valley Voice, "Sounds Like A Good Career", August 22, 2002, page 2.
4. "Gary Sturgis (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved September 14, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
5. Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:29:39 in, VOICE TALENT.

External links

• Gary Anthony Sturgis at IMDb