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