Brendan Edward Hunt is an actor who voiced Travis Miles, the host of Diamond City Radio, as well as Francis Perry in Fallout 4.
Career[]
Work on the Fallout series[]
When voice recording was underway for Fallout 4, Travis' writer, Brian Chapin, had a voice in his head for how the character would sound. Chapin found that many of the 20 or so auditions sent in for Travis were off the mark for how he envisioned the character. Chapin said that many of the auditions were like a "bad Jerry Lewis impersonation" or were too overly afraid in their delivery. Once Chapin heard one particular audition near the end of the list, five seconds into it, he knew that the actor had captured Travis perfectly. This was Brendan Hunt's audition, and he was quickly cast for the role. Hunt's performance made Travis one of Chapin's favorite characters to help bring to life.[1]
Other work[]
Although he was not as well known at the time of Fallout 4's release, Hunt later came to prominence for the role of Coach Beard on the hit TV series Ted Lasso, for which Hunt was also a co-creator.
Credits[]
Fallout series[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Fallout 4 | Travis Miles Francis Perry |
Other work[]
| Year | Title | Credited as/for |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Call of Duty: Finest Hour | Additional Voices |
| 2012-15 | Key & Peele | Whittling Pirate / Suspect / The Clown / Soccer Announcer / Various |
| 2013 | We're the Millers | Sketchy Dude |
| 2014 | Horrible Bosses 2 | Sex Addiction Group Member |
| 2014-16 | Austin & Ally | Spike Stevens |
| 2017 | Adam Ruins Everything | Instructor / Professor Loiacono |
| 2017 | Final Fantasy XV: Comrades | Additional Voices |
| 2019 | Bless This Mess | Additional Voices |
| 2020-present | Ted Lasso | Coach Beard |
References[]
- ↑ Writing the Worlds of Bethesda (reference starts at 1:05:33):
Brian Chapin: "I don't even have to think about this. It is 100%, it is Travis Miles from Fallout 4. So that was Emil's idea that he handed to me, and was like, 'Listen, we got, we need the radio DJ, and he has like, no self-confidence.' And I was like, 'I'm sorry, what?' And... so I spent a lot of time writing that, and then we got... at that point, y'know, that was when all of the characters were being - all of the voice recording was being done out in L.A., with a few notable exceptions. Present company included. And we would get auditions back, y'know, and it was this sort of secretive process where we weren't exactly telling people what they were auditioning for. I think somebody, maybe Mark Lampert, actually wrote up an entire separate thing for them to read that wasn't directly related. We got a list of like, 18-20 auditions back, then they would say 'Who do you want to go with?' And I was going through the list... and I was like three quarters of the way through, and nobody was getting it. It just... it was either like a bad Jerry Lewis impersonation, like 'Wo-hough!' Or just like overly afraid or whatever... And it was maybe like the second-to-last one, five seconds into it, 'that is the voice that I have heard in my head as I was writing it.' And that was Brendan Hunt, who everyone now knows and loves as Coach Beard in Ted Lasso. But it's those moments where I've been hearing something in my head as I write it, and somebody else can read it for the first time in the recording booth and it comes out exactly the way I'd heard it. Those moments are absolutely priceless and I love Travis for that."