Masato Yamanouchi

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]}

Masato Yamanouchi
Japanese: 山内 雅人
Born	Mikio Yamauchi (山内 幹雄) (1929-04-03)April 3, 1929 Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Died	April 7, 2003(2003-04-07) (aged 74) Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Voice actor, actor, narrator
Years active	1945-2003

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

Year	Title (in English)	Title (in Japanese)	Type	Role	Ref
1963	The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon	わんぱく王子の大蛇退治	Animated film	Wadatsumi; Kushinada-Hime's father	[7][8]
1964	Akō Rōshi	赤穂浪士	TV drama	Uesugi Tsunanori	[9]
1966	Cyborg 009	サイボーグ・ゼロ・ゼロ・ナイン	Animated film	Black Ghost	[10][8]
1977	Rascal the Raccoon	あらいぐまラスカル	TV animation	Willard North	[2]
1978	Future Boy Conan	未来少年コナン	TV animation	Grandpa, Dr. Lao	[1][2][8]
1979	Lupin the 3rd Part II	ルパン三世	TV animation	Napoleon 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 drama	Master 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 animation	Dornkirk	[3]
1998	Silent Möbius	サイレントメビウス	TV animation	Kōhō Yamigumo	[citation needed]

Dubbing roles

Year	Title	Original actor	Role	Notes	Ref
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" Prewitt	TV edition
	Terminal Station		Giovanni Doria	TV edition
	Roman Holiday	Eddie Albert	Irving Radovich	1972 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 #6	1974 NTV edition
1959	Suddenly, Last Summer	Montgomery Clift	Dr. Cukrowicz
1961	Judgment at Nuremberg		Rudolph Peterson	TV edition
	The Misfits		Perce Howland	1966 TV Asahi edition
1962	Freud: The Secret Passion		Sigmund Freud
1966	The Defector		Prof. James Bower
1970	Cold Sweat	Jean Topart	Katanga	1979 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 Royce	1986 TV Asahi edition
1987	Wall Street	Martin Sheen	Carl Fox		[15]
	The Last Emperor	Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa	Chang	1989 TV Asahi edition
	The Running Man	Richard Dawson	Damon Killian	1990 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

References

1. "山内 雅人" [Matsuo Yamauchi] (in Japanese). Kotobank. 2010. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
2. "＜訃報＞山内雅人さん７４歳＝声優草分け、俳優" [<Obituary News> Masato Yamauchi, 74 years old = Pioneer voice actor, actor] (in Japanese). Yahoo! Japan. 2003-04-08. Archived from the original on 2003-04-21.
3. "天空のエスカフローネ" [The Vision of Escaflowne] (in Japanese). Escaflowne. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
4. "会社概要" [Company profile] (in Japanese). Broadcast Educational Expression Center. Archived from the original on 2011-01-22.
5. "平成22年度 目白大学子ども学科 秋季公開講座" [2010 Mejiro University Department of Childhood Autumn Public Lecture] (in Japanese). Mejiro. 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-25.
6. "山内雅人氏死去 声優" [Voice actor Masato Yamanouchi dies] (in Japanese). 47 News. 2003-04-28. Archived from the original on 2014-02-28.
7. "わんぱく王子の大蛇退治" [The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon] (in Japanese). TOEI Animation. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
8. "山内雅人の映画作品" [Masato Yamanouchi's film works] (in Japanese). Movie Walker Press. 3 April 1999. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
9. "山内 雅人" [Masato Yamanouchi] (in Japanese). Edo Guide. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
10. "サイボーグ009" [Cyborg 009] (in Japanese). TOEI Animation. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
11. "装甲騎兵ボトムズ 赫奕たる異端" [Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy] (in Japanese). Sunrise World. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
12. "山内雅人" [Masato Yamauchi] (in Japanese). Excite Japan. 2021-03-09. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
13. "夜の訪問者［吹］水曜ロードショー版" [Night Visitor [Suki] Wednesday Roadshow Edition]. Star Channel (in Japanese). Retrieved November 30, 2021.
14. "スティング" [The Sting]. The Cinema (in Japanese). Retrieved February 12, 2023.
15. "ウォール街［吹］機内上映版" [Wall Street [Buki] In-flight screening version] (in Japanese). Star BS10. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
16. "バトルランナー パラマウント 思い出の復刻版 ブルーレイ" [Battle Runner Paramount Memories Reprint Edition Blu-ray]. Paramount (in Japanese). Retrieved December 4, 2021.
17. "愛と死の間で" [Dead Again]. NBCUniversal Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved April 30, 2019.
18. "１２人の怒れる男／評決の行方［吹］" [12 Angry Men/The Future of the Verdict [Blowout]]. Star Channel (in Japanese). Retrieved June 7, 2019.
19. "アミスタッド" [Amistad]. Star Channel. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
20. "ジョー・ブラックをよろしく" [Meet Joe Black]. Star Channel. Retrieved October 5, 2021.

External links

• Masato Yamanouchi at IMDb