Lanny Broyles

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Lanny Broyles
Born
Lanny Marshall Broyles

(1949-02-25) February 25, 1949 (age 75)
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • choreographer
Years active1970s-1990s

Lanny Marshall Broyles (born February 25, 1949) is a Tokyo-based American voice actor and choreographer.

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Career

A graduate of the University of Southern California with a major in "Speech", "Theater" and "English Literature", Broyles appeared in supporting roles in various early 1980s films; most notably Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars .

Wishing to live in a foreign country, Broyles moved to Japan in the 1980s, where he did dubbing work for Frontier Enterprises. He currently works as an English-teacher at the Waseda College of International Language Vocational School. [1]

Filmography

Dubbing

Anime films

Video games

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References

  1. "Waseda College of International Languages / Professor (Lanny Broyles)". shingakunet.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 6, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  2. "Lanny Broyles (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Archived from the original on June 26, 2019. Retrieved June 26, 2019. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)