Michael Ethan Rodgers (born: May 8, 1969) is a Scottish-born actor and voice actor. He is known for playing Mr. Conductor, Junior, a fun-loving young man who is the cousin of Mr. Conductor, in Thomas and the Magic Railroad,voicing Gabranth, an armored soldier who is part of an evil alliance, in the English dub of the 2006 Japanese video game Final Fantasy XII, and guest starring in various TV shows from the USA and/or Canada, including the shows NYPD Blue, NightMan, Bones, Legacy, CSI: Miami, and Killer Instinct, among others. In 1989, Michael moved to Los Angeles to start acting. Several years later, in 2009, he moved to Italy to start a film school there, and he still does this to this day.
Filmography[]
Film[]
The Dentist (1996)- Nervous Patient
Gia (1998)- Red Dress Photographer (Television film)
Sugar Town (1999)- Journalist
Escape Under Pressure (2000)- Rupp
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000)- Mr. Conductor Jr.
Metropolis (2001)- Nate (Television film/pilot)
Thank Heaven (2001)- Horace
Auto Focus (2002)- Richard Dawson
Kelpto (2003)- Sandy Hauser
The Bone Hunter (2003)- Aedgar
Red Rose (2004)- Robert Burns
What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)- Bruno
Stranded (2006)- Mark
Sinner (2007)- Stephen
The Good Italian (2015)- William
Television[]
NightMan (1997)- ??? (EP: "Whole Lotta Shaken'")
NYPD Blue (1998)- Eddie "The Fly" Golata (EP: "Twin Petes")
Legacy (1999)- ??? (EP: "Just Kissed")
Will and Grace (2000)- Charlie (EP: "Advise and Resent")
Mysterious Ways (2001)- Dr. Collins (EP: "Dead Dog Walking")
American Family (2002)- Cingean Flanigan (EPS: "The Journey: Parts 1 and 2")
Charmed! (2004)- First Mate Renzor (EP: "Chaaaarmed!")
American Dreams (2003-2004)- Collin (Various episodes)
Veronica Mars (2005)- Colin Nevin (EP: "Green-Eyed Monster")
The Triangle (2005/6)- Bruce Geller (3-part miniseries)
CSI: Miami (2006)- Keith Gifford (EP: "The Score")
Killer Instinct (2006)- Mace/Edward (EP: "Love Hurts")
Bones (2006)- Jesse Kane (Ep: "The Man on the Fairway")
Windfall (2006)- Pascal/Patrick (EPS: "The Myth of Moore" and "Urgent Care")
As The World Turns (2008)- Neil Stokes (Various episodes)
Leverage (2010)- Chapman (EP: "The Big Bang Job")
Penny on M.A.R.S (2018-present)- Bruce Gold (Various episodes)
Video Games and Voice Roles[]
The Matrix: Path of Neo (2005)- Doberman (voice)
Final Fantasy XII (2006)- Gabranth (voice, English dub)
Others[]
Michael has also starred in commercials for Apple IDVD (2001), Volkswagen Jetta (2001), Michelob Light (2002), and Head and Sholiders (2004). It is unknown if he starred in any other media outside his commercial appearances.
Popularity[]
Michael E. Rodgers is a decent actor, starring in many successful projects. Unfortunately, as of 2009, he is not that popular and well known in the USA, even though some people actually liked his performances.
Trivia[]
Thomas and the Magic Railroad and Penny on M.A.R.S are the only children's productions that Michael starred in. The rest of his appearances are in productions aimed at an older audience.
According to Britt Allcroft, the director of the Thomas movie, Michael has a great sense of humor, but it is unknown if his humor is dark or not, since we weren't able to hear his jokes off camera, although he improvised some of his lines/scenes in the movie, including the clever, but deleted "Sundae Surprise" scene, which was entirely improvised by Rodgers and wasn't included in any earlier script of the film. [1]
According to Michael E. Rodgers in a recent 2016 interview, he mentioned that he was very shy when he was very young. [2]
Some people thought the TV film Gia was his first film role, but it turns out that the 1996 horror film The Dentist was his first film role, as a minor character.
Michael can speak in Italian very well [3]