Akira Kume Explained

Akira Kume
Native Name:	久米 明
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	1924 2, df=yes
Birth Place:	Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Death Place:	Tokyo, Japan
Years Active:	1947–2019
Height:	170 cm
Children:	Daisaku Kume

was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

He died on 23 April 2020 from heart failure.^[1]

Filmography

Films

• The Insect Woman (1963) - Investigator
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - First Secretary Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited)
• Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (1974) - Watabe
• Kinkanshoku (1975) - Prime Minister
• Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) - Mayor of Tatsuno
• Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari (1976) - Detective
• Fumō Chitai (1976) - Cabinet minister
• Female Teacher (1977) - Kamino / Schoolmaster
• Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta (1977)
• The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) - Hyōgo
• Dōran (1980) - Kinzo Mizoguchi
• Shag (1989)
• (1993) - Narrator
• Pipi to benai hotaru (1996) - Elder Stag

Television dramas

• Key Hunter (1968) - Killer Ueno
• Kunitori Monogatari (1973) - Akechi Mitsuyasu
• Taiyō ni Hoero! (1978–1979) - Soda
• Oretachi wa Tenshi da! (1979), Episode #1 - Funashima
• Kusa Moeru (1979) - Itō Sukechika
• Kinpachi-sensei (1981) - Ōyama
• Shadow Warriors (1981) - Tokugawa Mitsukuni
• Ōoka Echizen (1983) - Old man
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) - Katagiri Katsumoto
• Choshichiro Edo Nikki (1983) - Amemiya
• Edo o Kiru (1987) - Matsudaira Izuminokami
• Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (1995) - Ōkubo Tadatomo

Stage

• Death of a Salesman
• The Lower Depths
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Tempest

Television animation

• Doraemon (1979) - Mr. Minamoto/Shizuka's Papa
• Botchan (1980) - Narrator
• (1992) - Narrator
• Phoenix (2004) - Narrator

Theatrical animation

• (1982) - Professor Toporo
• Crusher Joe (1983) - Dan
• Penguin's Memory - Shiawase monogatari (1985) - The Librarian
• (short film) (1999) - Mr Minamoto/Shizuka's Papa

Video games

• The Legend of Dragoon (1999) - Dewey

Dubbing

Live-action

• Humphrey Bogart
  • Angels with Dirty Faces (Jim Frazier)
  • The Roaring Twenties (George Hally)
  • The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
  • Casablanca (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Rick Blaine)
  • Action in the North Atlantic (First Officer Joe Rossi)
  • Sahara (Sergeant Joe Gunn)
  • To Have and Have Not (Harry "Steve" Morgan)
  • The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe)
  • Key Largo (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Maj. Frank McCloud)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Fred C. Dobbs)
  • The African Queen (Charlie Allnut)
  • The Barefoot Contessa (1966 TV Asahi and 1979 TV Tokyo editions) (Harry Dawes)
  • The Caine Mutiny (1979 Fuji TV edition) (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg)
  • Sabrina (Linus Larrabee)
  • The Desperate Hours (NHK edition (Glenn Griffin))
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1976 Fuji TV edition) (Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness))
• The Changeling (John Russell (George C. Scott))
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2008 NTV edition) (Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee))^[2]
• Cinema Paradiso (Alfredo (Philippe Noiret))
• Clash of the Titans (1985 TV Asahi edition) (Ammon (Burgess Meredith))
• Julia (1980 Fuji TV edition) (Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards))
• The Last Emperor (1989 TV Asahi edition) (Chen Baochen (Victor Wong))
• Sherlock Holmes (Mycroft Holmes (Charles Gray))
• Star Wars (1983 NTV edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness))

Animated films

• Fun and Fancy Free (Pony Canyon edition (Edgar Bergen))
• The Little Mermaid (King Triton)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Pony Canyon edition (Narrator))
• Song of the South (Pony Canyon edition (Uncle Remus))

Television animation

• (Pastmaster)

Honours

• Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (1992)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1997)

Family

He was the father of Daisaku Kume, who married Saki Kubota in 1985.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Narrator/Voice Actor Akira Kume Passes Away Due to Heart Condition. 25 May 2023 .
2. Web site: チャーリーとチョコレート工場. November 29, 2021. Nippon Television. https://web.archive.org/web/20160401120914/https://kinro.jointv.jp/lineup/151113/. April 1, 2016.
3. https://www.christiantoday.co.jp/articles/27990/20200423/akira-kume-dies-at-96.htm 俳優・声優の久米明さん死去、義娘に教会音楽家の久米小百合さん
4. https://www.dailyshincho.jp/article/2020/09181100/?all=1 「異邦人」のヒットから40年　久保田早紀が久米小百合として音楽宣教師になった理由
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=9GY7AAAAIAAJ 89