, known by the stage name , was a Japanese actor. He was born in Kitazawa, Setagaya (now Kitazawa,
Setagaya
is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It is also the name of a neighborhood and administrative district within the ward. Its official bird is the azure-winged magpie, its flower is the fringed orchid, and its tree is the '' Ze ...
,
Tokyo
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), Ehara,
Tokyo Prefecture
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. He formerly belonged to Gekidan Haiyūza.
Biography
After dropping out of
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 ...
's department of theater, Takita debuted in 1953 as a second-grader training institute for Gekidan Haiyūza.
His synchronization included
Akiji Kobayashi
, sometimes credited as Shōji Kobayashi, was a Japanese actor. He attended Nihon University College of Art, but withdrew before completing his degree and joined the Haiyuza Theatre Company in 1949. He made his film debut with ''Satsujin Yogisha' ...
, Akio Satake, Toru Takeuchi,
Yoshio Tsuchiya
was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Toshio Matsumoto's surreal ''Bara No Soretsu'' (a.k.a. '' Funeral Parade of Roses'') and Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'' (as the firebrand farmer Rikichi) and '' Red Beard'', and Kihachi Okam ...
, Hisashi Yokomori, etc. Takita became popular in the TV drama ''Jiken Kisha'' who appeared from 1956 to 1964. In the period dramas such as ''
Mito Kōmon
is a Japanese ''jidaigeki'' or period drama that was on prime-time television from 1969 to 2011, making it the longest-running ''jidaigeki'' in Japanese television history. The title character is the historic Tokugawa Mitsukuni, former vice-' ...
'' and ''
The Unfettered Shogun
(Abarenbō Shōgun) was a Japanese television program on the TV Asahi network. Set in the eighteenth century, it showed fictitious events in the life of Yoshimune, the eighth Tokugawa ''shōgun''.
The program started in 1978 under the title '' ...
'', he often played villains, but in recent years there were many opportunities to play the role of good people. In addition, Takita was also active as a voice actor, voice of neurosurgeon Ben Casey of hero in overseas drama ''
Ben Casey
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'', and the films ''
Star Wars
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'', ''
Haunted Mansion
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*Haunted house, house or other structure inhabited by disembodied spirits
*Haunted attraction (simulated), a type of amusement attraction
Disney
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'', ''
Jaws'' and many hit the main characters and important characters' voices in hits.
Takita was diagnosed with ureter cancer in the summer of 2014 and had surgery. Takita's metastasis was discovered in April 2015. He died at a hospital in Naka Ward, Yokohama City on 3 May, the same year at 11:34 am, from cancer.
Takita was 84 when he died.
Filmography (acting)
TV dramas
Films
Stage
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Voice acting
Dubbing
Actors
;
Roy Scheider
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Films, dramas
Anime films
Radio dramas
Narration
References
External links
*
Yūsuke Takita– allcinema
Yūsuke Takita– Kinenote
*
Yūsuke Takita Movie WalkerYūsuke Takita - TV Drama Database
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Japanese male film actors
Japanese male stage actors
Japanese male television actors
Japanese male voice actors
Male actors from Tokyo
People from Setagaya
1930 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Japanese male actors
21st-century Japanese male actors