| Masato Yamanouchi | |
| Native Name: | ja|山内 雅人 |
| Birthname: | Mikio Yamauchi (Japanese: 山内 幹雄) |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1929 |
| Birth Place: | Meguro, Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Place: | Meguro, Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation: | Voice actor, actor, narrator |
| Yearsactive: | 1945-2003 |
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, and dubbed films for actors including Tyrone Power and Montgomery Clift.
Yamanouchi was born Mikio Yamauchi (Japanese: 山内 幹雄) on April 3, 1929 in Tokyo.[1] He attended Shiba Junior High School, Waseda University School of Law, and Kamakura Academia's theatre program.[1] While at Waseda, he founded Jiyu Butai, a theatre troupe.
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] 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.[3] [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.
In 1975, he received the NHK Broadcasting Operation Director's Award and the Arts Festival Award for Excellence in the drama category.[1]
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] [5] He was survived by his widow, Yasuko.[5]
| Year | Title (in English) | Title (in Japanese) | Type | Role | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon | Japanese: わんぱく王子の大蛇退治 | Animated film | Wadatsumi; Kushinada-Hime's father | [6] | |
| 1964 | Akō Rōshi | Japanese: 赤穂浪士 | TV drama | Uesugi Tsunanori | [7] | |
| 1966 | Cyborg 009 | Japanese: サイボーグ・ゼロ・ゼロ・ナイン | Animated film | Black Ghost | [8] | |
| 1977 | Rascal the Raccoon | Japanese: あらいぐまラスカル | TV animation | Willard North | ||
| 1978 | Future Boy Conan | Japanese: 未来少年コナン | TV animation | Grandpa, Dr. Lao | ||
| 1979 | Lupin the 3rd Part II | Japanese: ルパン三世 | TV animation | Napoleon the Eleventh | ||
| 1983 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Japanese: 徳川 家康 | TV drama | |||
| 1994 | Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy | Japanese: 装甲騎兵ボトムズ 赫奕たる異端 | Viacheslav da Montewells | [9] | ||
| 1995 | Catnapped! | Japanese: とつぜん！猫の国 バニパルウィット | Animated drama | Master Sandada | ||
| Ghost in the Shell | Japanese: 攻殻機動隊 | Foreign Minister | [10] [11] | |||
| 1996 | The Vision of Escaflowne | Japanese: 天空のエスカフローネ | TV animation | Dornkirk | [12] | |
| 1998 | Silent Möbius | Japanese: サイレントメビウス | TV animation | Kōhō Yamigumo |
| Year | Title | Original actor | Role | Notes | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Suez | 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 | Matthew "Matt" Garth | ||||
| 1951 | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Tom Stevens | ||||
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Private Robert E. Lee "Prew" Prewitt | TV edition | |||
| Terminal Station | Giovanni Doria | TV edition | ||||
| Roman Holiday | Irving Radovich | 1972 Fuji TV edition | ||||
| 1955 | The Long Gray Line | Martin Maher | ||||
| Untamed | Paul van Riebeck | |||||
| 1956 | The Eddy Duchin Story | Eddy Duchin | ||||
| 1957 | Raintree County | John Wickliff Shawnessey | ||||
| Witness for the Prosecution | Leonard Vole | |||||
| 12 Angry Men | Juror #6 | 1974 NTV edition | ||||
| 1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Dr. Cukrowicz | ||||
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Rudolph Peterson | TV edition | |||
| The Misfits | Perce Howland | 1966 TV Asahi edition | ||||
| 1962 | ||||||
| 1966 | The Defector | Prof. James Bower | ||||
| 1970 | Cold Sweat | Katanga | 1979 NTV edition | [13] | ||
| 1972 | The Godfather | 1976 NTV edition | ||||
| 1973 | The Sting | FBI Agent Polk | [14] | |||
| 1974 | Earthquake | Lorne Greene | Sam Royce | 1986 TV Asahi edition | ||
| 1987 | Wall Street | Carl Fox | [15] | |||
| The Last Emperor | Chang | 1989 TV Asahi edition | ||||
| The Running Man | Damon Killian | 1990 TV Asahi edition | [16] | |||
| 1990 | The Exorcist III | Father Dyer | ||||
| 1991 | Dead Again | Franklyn Madson | [17] | |||
| Dr. Peter Silberman | ||||||
| 1995 | Braveheart | 1999 TV Asahi edition | ||||
| 1997 | 12 Angry Men | Juror #3 | [18] | |||
| Amistad | [19] | |||||
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | William Parrish | [20] | |||
| ? | The X-Files |