John Rafter Lee

John Rafter Lee
Born	Birmingham, England
Occupations	Actor voice actor narrator playwright producer

John Rafter Lee is a British actor, voice actor, audiobook narrator, playwright and producer.

Biography

Lee was born in England with Irish ancestry. His father worked as a carpenter and other men in his family were blacksmiths, brick layers and plumbers. Lee himself has worked in agriculture picking fruit, which he considers much more difficult than voice acting.

Career

Lee has narrated hundreds of audiobooks. "His trademark rich, smooth voice with its hint of a growl turns the word into a seduction", according to AudioFile. He has won numerous Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards, and he was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile in 2009.

In film, he portrayed the mysterious Trevor Goodchild in Peter Chung's Æon Flux. Other voice credits include Meier Link in both Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust and Vampire Hunter D, Pavlo Zaitsev in episode 16 of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Jason Wynn in HBO's Spawn animated series, and Aristotle in Reign: The Conqueror. John also had a role as a voice actor playing Cid Bunansa in the video game Final Fantasy XII.

Lee was also the producer and screenwriter for the 2001 film Breathing Hard, in which he played the character John Duggan. His Æon Flux co-star Denise Poirier plays his wife Carol.

He has written the plays Blood and Milk, Hitler's Head, Passchendaele, Clean Souls and Frankincense. He has adapted into English Schiller's Don Carlos, Racine's Britannicus and Grabbe's Jest, Satire, Irony and Deeper Significance. Passchendaele received its first production at the New York Fringe Festival in August 2010.

His latest film, which he wrote and co-produced, is Forfeit, which received its premier at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. He is currently writing a film to be shot in his hometown, Birmingham, England.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Bugsy Malone	Benny Lee
1986	Comrades	Juggler
1988	Rikky and Pete	High Ranking Officer
1992	Small Kill	Hit Man
1993	Hammers Over the Anvil	Charles McAlister
1998	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2	Jason Wynn	Voice
1999	Todd McFarlane's Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle	Jason Wynn
1999	George Lucas in Love	Ranter	Short
1999	Princess Mononoke		Voice
2000	Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust	Meier Link	Voice
2001	Breathing Hard	John Duggan	Also writer and producer
2003	Jules Verne & Walt Disney: Explorers of Imagination	Narrator	Documentary
2007	Forfeit	—	Writer and producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Æon Flux	Trevor Goodchild	Voice, 10 episodes
1996	Mercury	Jim Mulvaney	Unknown episodes
1997–1999	Todd McFarlane's Spawn	Jason Wynn	Voice, 17 episodes
2000	Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki	Azusa Jurai	Voice, Episode: "Here Comes Jurai"
2003	Reign: The Conqueror	Aristotle	Voice, 4 episodes
2003	Ninja Scroll: The Series	Renya Yagyu	Voice
2003–2004	Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex	Kusunoki, Zaitsef, Security Guard, Yaku Humimari (voices)	Voice, 4 episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Vampire Hunter D	Meier Link
2000	Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption
2006	Final Fantasy XII	Cid Bunansa

External links

• Official website
• John Rafter Lee at IMDb