Masato Yamanouchi

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Masato Yamanouchi
Japanese: 山内 雅人
Born
Mikio Yamauchi (山内 幹雄)

(1929-04-03)April 3, 1929
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
DiedApril 7, 2003(2003-04-07) (aged 74)
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s) Voice actor, actor, narrator
Years active1945-2003

Masato Yamanouchi (山内 雅人, Yamanouchi Masato, April 3, 1929, Tokyo – April 7, 2003, Tokyo) was a Japanese voice actor. Over the course of his 58-year career, he was reportedly in more than 20,000 works and dubbed more than 3,000 films. He voiced Grandpa in Future Boy Conan and Dornkirk in The Vision of Escaflowne , [1] [2] [3] and dubbed films for actors including Tyrone Power and Montgomery Clift.[ citation needed ]

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Early life and education

Yamanouchi was born Mikio Yamauchi (山内 幹雄) on April 3, 1929 in Tokyo. [1] He attended Shiba Junior High School,[ citation needed ] Waseda University School of Law, and Kamakura Academia's theatre program. [1] While at Waseda, he founded Jiyu Butai, a theatre troupe.[ citation needed ]

Career

In 1945, Yamanouchi joined the NHK Tokyo Broadcasting Company, where he hosted a radio show and debuted as a voice actor in Fuefuki Dōji as Kirino Kojiro. [2] [1] His early training for voice roles centered on dramatic reading, which he initially performed in coffee shops. [1] [4] In 1949, he and linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi started the Broadcast Expression Education Center, where they worked on preserving the Edo language. They began accepting students for dramatic reading, making them the first recitation school in Japan. [5] [6] [1] [4] The center was supported by the NHK's Cultural Fund. After leaving NHK in 1977, Yamanouchi worked for K Production, then became a freelancer.[ citation needed ]

In 1975, he received the NHK Broadcasting Operation Director's Award and the Arts Festival Award for Excellence in the drama category. [1]

Death

Yamanouchi died on April 7, 2003 in Meguro, the same Tokyo ward in which he was born, due to complications from lung cancer. [1] [2] [6] He was survived by his widow, Yasuko. [6]

Filmography

YearTitle (in English)Title (in Japanese)TypeRoleRef
1963 The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon わんぱく王子の大蛇退治Animated filmWadatsumi; Kushinada-Hime's father [7] [8]
1964 Akō Rōshi 赤穂浪士TV dramaUesugi Tsunanori [9]
1966 Cyborg 009 サイボーグ・ゼロ・ゼロ・ナインAnimated filmBlack Ghost [10] [8]
1977 Rascal the Raccoon あらいぐまラスカルTV animationWillard North [2]
1978 Future Boy Conan 未来少年コナンTV animationGrandpa, Dr. Lao [1] [2] [8]
1979 Lupin the 3rd Part II ルパン三世TV animationNapoleon the Eleventh[ citation needed ]
1983 Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川 家康TV drama Ikoma Chikamasa [ citation needed ]
1994 Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy 装甲騎兵ボトムズ 赫奕たる異端 OVA Viacheslav da Montewells [11]
1995 Catnapped! とつぜん！猫の国 バニパルウィットAnimated dramaMaster Sandada [8]
Ghost in the Shell 攻殻機動隊Foreign Minister [12] [8]
1996 The Vision of Escaflowne 天空のエスカフローネTV animationDornkirk [3]
1998 Silent Möbius サイレントメビウスTV animationKōhō Yamigumo[ citation needed ]

Dubbing roles

YearTitleOriginal actorRoleNotesRef
1938 Suez Tyrone Power Ferdinand de Lesseps
1940 The Mark of Zorro Don Diego Vega/Zorro
1941 Blood and Sand Juan Gallardo
1943 Crash Dive Lt. Ward Stewart
1948 Red River Montgomery Clift Matthew "Matt" Garth
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still Hugh Marlowe Tom Stevens
1953 From Here to Eternity Montgomery Clift Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" PrewittTV edition
Terminal Station Giovanni DoriaTV edition
Roman Holiday Eddie Albert Irving Radovich1972 Fuji TV edition
1955 The Long Gray Line Tyrone Power Martin Maher
Untamed Paul van Riebeck
1956 The Eddy Duchin Story Eddy Duchin
1957 Raintree County Montgomery Clift John Wickliff Shawnessey
Witness for the Prosecution Tyrone Power Leonard Vole
12 Angry Men Edward Binns Juror #61974 NTV edition
1959 Suddenly, Last Summer Montgomery Clift Dr. Cukrowicz
1961 Judgment at Nuremberg Rudolph PetersonTV edition
The Misfits Perce Howland1966 TV Asahi edition
1962 Freud: The Secret Passion Sigmund Freud
1966 The Defector Prof. James Bower
1970 Cold Sweat Jean Topart Katanga1979 NTV edition [13]
1972 The Godfather Al Martino Johnny Fontane 1976 NTV edition
1973 The Sting Dana Elcar FBI Agent Polk [14]
1974 Earthquake Lorne Greene Sam Royce1986 TV Asahi edition
1987 Wall Street Martin Sheen Carl Fox [15]
The Last Emperor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Chang1989 TV Asahi edition
The Running Man Richard Dawson Damon Killian1990 TV Asahi edition [16]
1990 The Exorcist III Ed Flanders Father Dyer
1991 Dead Again Derek Jacobi Franklyn Madson [17]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Earl Boen Dr. Peter Silberman
1995 Braveheart Patrick McGoohan Edward "Longshanks" I 1999 TV Asahi edition
1997 12 Angry Men George C. Scott Juror #3 [18]
Amistad Anthony Hopkins John Quincy Adams [19]
1998 Meet Joe Black William Parrish [20] [2]
 ? The X-Files William B. Davis Cigarette Smoking Man

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