# Dean Erickson > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dean_Erickson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dean_Erickson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Erickson > Source revision: 1320348167 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American actor}} '''Dean Erickson''' (born December 5, 1958, [Maine](/source/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](/source/Gabriel_Knight) in ''[The Beast Within](/source/The_Beast_Within%3A_A_Gabriel_Knight_Mystery)'' and Eric, [Daphne](/source/Daphne_Moon)'s love interest and Café Nervosa waiter, in [Season 1](/source/Frasier_(season_1)) of ''[Frasier](/source/Frasier)''. == Career == After graduating from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University), he worked on [Wall Street](/source/Wall_Street) as an options trader and risk [arbitrage](/source/arbitrage)ur.{{cite web|author=Adventure Classic Gaming|year=2006|url=http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/206|title=Dean Erickson Interview|accessdate=September 11, 2016}} After six years he became an actor. He starred in several lesser [Shakespeare](/source/Shakespeare)an productions and later guest starred in a few episodes of ''[Frasier](/source/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](/source/Gabriel_Knight) in the award-winning{{cite magazine|author=Staff|title=1996 Premiere Awards|magazine=Computer Gaming World|volume=143|pages=55–67|date=June 1996|publisher=Ziff-Davis Publishing C.}} [FMV](/source/Interactive_film) video game ''[The Beast Within](/source/The_Beast_Within%3A_A_Gabriel_Knight_Mystery).'' The role of Gabriel Knight was re-cast, since Jensen felt [Tim Curry](/source/Tim_Curry), who voiced Knight in ''Sins of the Fathers'', did not look the part.{{cite magazine |last1=Kollar |first1=Phil |year=2012 |title=Hunting Shadows: The Rise and Fall of Gabriel Knight |magazine=[Game Informer](/source/Game_Informer) |issue=229 |pages=98–99 }} 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". 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".{{Cite web |title=Dean Erickson - Interview - Adventure Classic Gaming - ACG - Adventure Games, Interactive Fiction Games - Reviews, Interviews, Features, Previews, Cheats, Galleries, Forums |url=http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/index.php/site/interviews/206/ |access-date=2023-07-20 |website=www.adventureclassicgaming.com}} To prepare for the role, Erickson intensely studied films with [Southern](/source/Southern_United_States) characters and voice tapes of Southern dialects in order to make his accent sound natural. He enjoyed the role and later said that if the ''Gabriel Knight'' series had continued using live action FMV, he would have done more. 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''.{{cite web|author=Amazon|year=2022|url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dean-Erickson/author/B009H5FF36|title=Dean Erickson Amazon page|website=Amazon |accessdate=December 22, 2022}} In 2010, he was elected to the Midcoast Maine Sports Hall of Fame.[http://midcoastsportshalloffame.org/classof2010 Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130415080513/http://midcoastsportshalloffame.org/classof2010 |date=2013-04-15 }} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.deanerickson.com Official Website] *{{IMDb name|0259039}} *[http://www.rivelazioni.com/persone/Dean_Erickson/ Dean Erickson profile]{{in lang|it}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Erickson, Dean}} Category:1958 births Category:American male stage actors Category:American male television actors Category:American male video game actors Category:American male voice actors Category:Living people Category:Brown University alumni {{US-theat-actor-1950s-stub}} {{US-tv-actor-1950s-stub}} {{US-voice-actor-1950s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dean Erickson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Erickson) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Erickson?action=history)). 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