Eric Meyers
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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.
Known for
Credits
Snatch (2000)
as Avi's Colleague
Entrapment (1999)
as Waverly Technician
1408 (2007)
as Man #1 at Bookstore
A Hologram for the King (2016)
as Eric Randall
Shanghai Knights (2003)
as Front Desk Clerk
Animal Farm (2026)
as Additional Voices (voice)
Dragon Rider (2020)
as Sulphurbreath (voice)
The Contract (2006)
as Truck Driver
Just Visiting (2001)
as Family Man
Control (2004)
as Store Manager
Eagle Power (2020)
as Self - Narrator
The Special Relationship (2010)
as American Journalist
Autopsy the last hours of Johnny Carson (—)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Space Station: We Have A Problem (2025)
as Narrator
Great Escape at Dunkirk (2018)
as Self - Narrator
Can Dogs Talk? (2025)
as Self - Narrator
The Haunted Pumpkin of Sleepy Hollow (2002)
as Nathaniel / Trucker / Mr. Van Tassel
Kīlauea: Hawaiʻi on Fire (2019)
as Self - Narrator
747: The Jumbo Revolution (2014)
as Narrator
Action Man: Robot ATAK (2004)
as Red Wolf (voice)
Decoding the Great Pyramid (2019)
as Narrator
Zorro: Return to the Future (2007)
as (voice)
The First Emperor (2006)
as Narrator
MegaQuake: The Hour That Shook Japan (2011)
as Narrator
Character Building (1995)
Actor
Alice in Wonderland: What's the Matter with Hatter? (2007)
as (voice)
World's Fastest Animal (2018)
as Narrator
Escape from a Nazi Death Camp (2014)
as narrator
The Nazi Gospels (2012)
as Narrator
China's Emperor of Evil (2016)
as Narrator
Body Armor Secrets of a Second Skin (2001)
Actor
The Great Polar Bear Feast (2015)
as Narrator
Raiders of the Jade Empire (2015)
as Narrator
Aerial Ireland (2017)
as Narrator
Rise of the Rockets (2019)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
House of Horrors: Kidnapped in Cleveland (—)
as Self - Narrator
Ace Discovery (2013)
as Jet / Bosley
Tornado Rampage (2011)
as narrator
Tornado Chasers (2000)
as Self - Narrator
Ultimate Cruise Ship (2017)
Actor
High Hitler (2004)
as Narrator (US release)