Edward Davies Frierson (born November 22, 1959 in Sherman Oaks, California) is an American voice actor and stage actor who is also known as Christy Mathewson, Ted Richards, and Eric Frierson (only when misspelled in the credits — this was an original screw-up caused by language differences with the payroll company on a few anime projects in the 1980s — "Eddie" was "heard" as "Eric" in the Japanese translation and misspelled).
Eddie Frierson has been doing voicework for many anime series and movies since the 1980s, and has also been a voice actor for two of Saban Entertainment's most well-known shows - the Power Rangers franchise and VR Troopers. While during his tenure in the Saban shows, he only did voicework for one-shot characters in the earlier years, he was able to play a major role in 2001's Power Rangers: Time Force when he did the voice of the mad robot scientist Frax. After the PR franchise moved to New Zealand in 2003 (which laid off much of the PR crew, Frierson included), Frierson has continued to do voicework for various anime series such as .hack// and Robotech, as well as voicework in animated children's movies such as Curious George, Chicken Little, and The Wild. He has also done voicework for different video game franchises, such as the Ace Combat Zero and Medal of Honor series.
According to IMDB.com, Frierson was also once a contestant on the old TV game show, Tic Tac Dough, during the 1985-86 season. He has performed and his voice is heard in, literally, hundreds of television programs and feature films.
Frierson has also done significant theater work, most famously in his award-winning one-man show Matty: An Evening With Christy Mathewson (which was directed by fellow voice actor Kerrigan Mahan) about Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Christy Mathewson, which he has performed (and continues to perform &— see www.matty.org) across the country including Off-Broadway in New York for a long run and for which he won Drama-Logue Awards as both an actor and writer during the show's Los Angeles engagement. Frierson has also played such classical roles as Horatio in Mark Ringer's staging of Hamlet, Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Nevada Shakespeare in the Park, and Dapper in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist at the Globe Playhouse. He won a New England Drama Critic's award for his portrayal of the dim-witted Red Sox pitcher Tank in Steve Kluger's acclaimed nine-inning comedy, Bullpen, and also portrayed Streaker in the debut Kluger's award winning Cafe 50'S. In 2006 he originated the role of Tommy in the new musical, Wartime Romance by Marilyn Hackett.
