Dean Erickson
Dean Erickson (born December 5, 1958, Maine) is an actor, writer, and the founder and CEO of Bionic Capital LLC, a registered investment advisory firm. He is best known for playing Gabriel Knight in The Beast Within and Eric, Daphne's love interest and Café Nervosa waiter, in Season 1 of Frasier.
Career
[edit]After graduating from Brown University, he worked on Wall Street as an options trader and risk arbitrageur.[1]
After six years he became an actor. He starred in several lesser Shakespearean productions and later guest starred in a few episodes of Frasier as a waiter called Eric who became a love interest for Daphne in the first season.
His best known role may be starring as Gabriel Knight in the award-winning[2] FMV video game The Beast Within. The role of Gabriel Knight was re-cast, since Jensen felt Tim Curry, who voiced Knight in Sins of the Fathers, did not look the part.[3] Dean Erickson took the part, and delivered a take on the character markedly different from Curry's. Erickson explained that "there was no way I was going to do Tim Curry, because... you know, Tim Curry is Tim Curry. He was a little more animated or maybe you could say over the top. What he was doing called for that. What I was doing called for something a little more down to earth and grounded".[3] He clarified that "[Curry] only voiced a character and, due to the nature of animation, voices often need to be more over-the-top, because they have to impart more of everything without the visual aspect of a real, live person on screen".[4] To prepare for the role, Erickson intensely studied films with Southern characters and voice tapes of Southern dialects in order to make his accent sound natural.[4] He enjoyed the role and later said that if the Gabriel Knight series had continued using live action FMV, he would have done more.[3]
He later turned his focus to writing. He has published a mystery novel, No One Laughs at a Dead Clown, under the name DC Erickson, and a self-help book, Choose Your Story, Choose Your Life.[5]
In 2010, he was elected to the Midcoast Maine Sports Hall of Fame.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Adventure Classic Gaming (2006). "Dean Erickson Interview". Retrieved September 11, 2016.
- ^ Staff (June 1996). "1996 Premiere Awards". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 143. Ziff-Davis Publishing C. pp. 55–67.
- ^ a b c Kollar, Phil (2012). "Hunting Shadows: The Rise and Fall of Gabriel Knight". Game Informer. No. 229. pp. 98–99.
- ^ a b "Dean Erickson - Interview - Adventure Classic Gaming - ACG - Adventure Games, Interactive Fiction Games - Reviews, Interviews, Features, Previews, Cheats, Galleries, Forums". www.adventureclassicgaming.com. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
- ^ Amazon (2022). "Dean Erickson Amazon page". Amazon. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
- ^ Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2010 Archived 2013-04-15 at archive.today
External links
[edit]- Official Website
- Dean Erickson at IMDb
- Dean Erickson profile(in Italian)
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