Joseph D. Kucan

Joseph David Kucan (often called Joe) was the lead video director in most Command & Conquer, best known for his role of Kane in Tiberium Universe games and the first Red Alert game.

Early career and role of Kane
Joe Kucan started acting at a very early age - at the age of 10, he began acting in a local community theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada. He finished Bonanza High School and later switched many companies, where he taught, directed, acted, designed, choreographed or was otherwise involved in numerous projects.

In 1994, Kucan joined Westwood Studios, and received the role of the lead casting and video director. Since Westwood didn't have a large budget at the time, they employed the game developers as actors in full motion videos. When making a placeholder video to test the compression methods, Westwood assigned Kucan to say a line in which he should imitate a villain character. That test video actually gave him the role of the charismatic leader of the Brotherhood of Nod, Kane.

During the years, many people asked Kucan how he got the role. He mostly answered with jokes (for example, that there was a special election in the United States of America, in which he mostly got votes from the western states). The only true version was elaborated at CommandCom 2009 in Cologne.