James McCaffrey, the voice of Max Payne, died Sunday at 65, TMZ reports. A consultant for McCaffrey advised the publication that the actor, who is understood for roles throughout Management and the Max Payne and Alan Wake franchises, died of a number of myeloma, and that he was surrounded by family and friends on the time of his demise.
“Certainly one of Dick Wolf’s proteges (Swift Justice), McCaffrey went on to a profitable 35 12 months profession in tv and movie,” McCaffrey’s consultant advised TMZ. “Skilled on the Actor’s Studio, he by no means misplaced his love for creating characters; nevertheless, his beauty usually pushed him towards main man roles.”
In further to his work in movie and tv, McCaffrey started voice appearing in video video games in 2001 because the title character in Treatment Leisure’s Max Payne, kicking off a relationship with the Finnish studio that lasted for greater than twenty years. He returned to the position for 2003’s Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, and once more in 2012 for Max Payne 3, which was developed by Rockstar Studios.
McCaffrey voiced Tom Zane and Alex Casey in 2010’s Alan Wake from Treatment, and reprised the position of Casey (Saga Anderson’s FBI associate) on this 12 months’s sequel, Alan Wake 2. Treatment additionally employed McCaffrey for 2019’s Management, by which he voiced Zachariah Trench, director of the Federal Bureau of Management. McCaffrey’s different online game credit embrace Halfway Austin’s Space 51 (2005) and Eden Video games’ Alone within the Darkish (2008).
Treatment is returning to Max Payne alongside Rockstar Video games with deliberate remakes of Max Payne and Max Payne 2, Treatment CEO Tero Virtala introduced in 2022. Treatment introduced in an October monetary report that the projects were ready for production. The corporate had not mentioned if McCaffrey was to be concerned.
The Max Payne titles are critically acclaimed motion video games, and McCaffrey’s voice-over work in them, and throughout the Treatment-verse, has cemented an enduring legacy.