was a Japanese

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and

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from

Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. He was a

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

graduate. His real name was .

Voice roles

Anime

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(role unspecified) *

Doraemon (1973 anime) is a Japanese anime television series based on Fujiko F. Fujio's manga of the same name and is the first adaptation in the media franchise. The series, produced by Nippon TeleMovie Productions, originally aired in Japan on NNS from April 1 ...

(Nobisuke Nobi) * GeGeGe no Kitaro 1985 (Dracula) * Gekisou Rubenkaiser (narrator) * Genshi Shōnen Ryuu (Taka) * Hello! Sandybell (Kankan) *

Himitsu no Akko-chan is an early magical girl manga series written and illustrated by Fujio Akatsuka. The story centers around an elementary school girl who is gifted a magic mirror that allows her to transform into anything she chooses, and the misadventure ...

(Akko's father) * Kouya no Shōnen Isamu (Ned Wingate) *

Lady Oscar also known as ''Lady Oscar'' and ''La Rose de Versailles'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Margaret'' from 1972 to 1973, while a revival ...

(Count Mercy) *

Marine Boy ''Marine Boy'' was one of the first color anime to be shown in a dubbed form in the U.S., and later in Australia and the United Kingdom. It was originally produced in 1965 in Japan as by Minoru Adachi and animation company Japan Tele-Cart ...

(role unspecified) * Meiken Jolie (role unspecified) *

Ōgon Bat , known as Phantaman or Fantomas in various countries outside Japan, is a Japanese superhero created by Suzuki Ichiro and Takeo Nagamatsu in autumn of 1930 who originally debuted in a ''kamishibai'' (paper theater). Ōgon Bat is considered by so ...

(Dr. Yamatone) *

Sazae-san is a Japanese ''yonkoma'' manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the , on April 22, 1946. When the ''Asahi Shimbun'' wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for ...

(Norisuke Namino) * Seigi wo Aisuru Mono Gekko Kamen (role unspecified) *

Space Battleship Yamato is a Japanese science fiction anime series written by Yoshinobu Nishizaki, directed by manga artist Leiji Matsumoto, and produced by Academy Productions. The series aired in Yomiuri TV from October 6, 1974 to March 30, 1975, totaling u ...

(Genits, politician) * Space Oz no Bouken (Dr. Oz, Moji's father) * Wakakusa no Charlotte (Andre) * Yattodetaman (role unspecified) * Yūsha Raidīn (Ichiro Hibiki)

OVAs

Bubblegum Crash is a 1991 OVA anime series produced by Artmic and Artland. It is the sequel to the 1987 OVA series ''Bubblegum Crisis'', taking place a year after the series. The Knight Sabers seem to be finished, as each of its members except Nene Romano ...

(plant chief) *

Legend of the Galactic Heroes , sometimes abbreviated as ''LOTGH'', ''LOGH'', ''LGH'' or in Japanese (and also depicted as ''Heldensagen vom Kosmosinsel'' in the anime intro), is a series of Epic (genre), epic science fiction novels written by Yoshiki Tanak ...

(Schtaaden) * Mashin Eiyuden Wataru: Warinaki Toki no Monogatari (old man) * Sohryuden: Legend of the Dragon Kings (Forester)

Films

* Farewell Space Battleship Yamato (Goenitz, politician) * GeGeGe no Kitaro: The Great Yōkai War (role unspecified) * Golgo 13: The Professional (E. Young) * Lupin III: Mystery of Mamo (scientist) * Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (airman)

Tokusatsu

* Space Amoeba (Space

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) *

Kamen Rider The , also known as ''Masked Rider Series'' (until ''Kamen Rider Decade, Decade'' and except Thailand), is a Japanese superhero fiction, superhero media franchise consisting of tokusatsu television programs, films, manga, and anime, created by ...

( Arigabari, Sea-Dragon) * Inazuman (narrator) * Fireman (narrator) * Bouken Rockbat (narrator, Black

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Warujan) * Skyrider ( Komoljin, Haejigokujin, Elder Musasabader, Torikabuton) *

Kamen Rider Super-1 is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the seventh installment in the Kamen Rider Series. The series was broadcast on the Mainichi Broadcasting System from October 17, 1980, to October 3, 1981. The series production of Toei, ...

( Kamagirigan, Lonely

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Red Danger) * Chodenshi Bioman (narrator)

Dubbing

*'' The Blue Lagoon'' (1983 TBS edition) (Arthur Lestrange (

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)) *'' Goldfinger'' (1978 NTV edition) (

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(

Cec Linder Cecil Yekuthial Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. He was Jewish and managed to escape Poland before the Holocaust. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, ...

)) *''

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'' is a 1989 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, based on a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. It is the third installment in the Indiana Jone ...

'' (Marcus Brody (

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)) *''

Serpico ''Serpico'' is a 1973 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas, with the assistan ...

'' (1977 TV Asahi edition) (Jerry Berman ( Lewis J. Stadlen))

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murakoshi, Ichiro 1930 births 2007 deaths Male voice actors from Tokyo