William Peter Kametz (March 22, 1987 – June 9, 2022), better known as Billy Kametz, was an American voice actor based in California.
Biography[]
Kametz was an LA-based actor originally from Hershey, Pennsylvania. He came out to California to play Aladdin in the Aladdin Musical Spectacular in Disney's California Adventure for the final year of the show's 13-year run. Since then, he was fortunate to lend his voice to cartoons, anime, video games, and commercials. Kametz was most known for voicing characters such as Josuke Higashikata in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Naofumi in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Galo in Promare, Ferdinand von Aegir in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, White Blood Cell in Cells At Work!, Osomatsu in Mr. Osomatsu, Anai in Aggretsuko, Blue in Pokémon Masters, Naoto Kurogane in BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle, Aoba in Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nishikata in Teasing Master Takagi-san, Kyouya in Konosuba, Hakuno in Fate Extra, and Phil Coulson, Iron Lad, The Collector and Thor Noir in Marvel Avengers Academy.
On April 26, 2022, Kametz announced on his Twitter that he was battling stage 4 colon cancer. Because of this, he moved out of California back to his home state of Pennsylvania to be with his family. He was also putting his voice acting career on hold before his eventual death.
Kametz died on June 9, 2022 after a long battle with colon cancer.