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.
Early life and education Yamanouchi was born Mikio Yamauchi () on April 3, 1929 in Tokyo. He attended Shiba Junior High School, Waseda University School of Law, and Kamakura Academia's theatre program. While at Waseda, he founded Jiyu Butai, a theatre troupe.
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. His early training for voice roles centered on dramatic reading, which he initially performed in coffee shops. 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. 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.
Death Yamanouchi died on April 7, 2003 in Meguro, the same Tokyo ward in which he was born, due to complications from lung cancer. He was survived by his widow, Yasuko.
Filmography Year Title (in English) Title (in Japanese) Type Role Ref 1963 The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon Animated film Wadatsumi; Kushinada-Hime's father 1964 Akō Rōshi TV drama Uesugi Tsunanori 1966 Cyborg 009 Animated film Black Ghost 1977 Rascal the Raccoon TV animation Willard North 1978 Future Boy Conan TV animation Grandpa, Dr. Lao 1979 Lupin the 3rd Part II TV animation Napoleon the Eleventh 1983 Tokugawa Ieyasu TV drama Ikoma Chikamasa 1994 Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy OVA Viacheslav da Montewells 1995 Catnapped! Animated drama Master Sandada Ghost in the Shell Foreign Minister 1996 The Vision of Escaflowne TV animation Dornkirk 1998 Silent Möbius TV animation Kōhō Yamigumo
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 1972 The Godfather Al Martino Johnny Fontane 1976 NTV edition 1973 The Sting Dana Elcar FBI Agent Polk 1974EarthquakeLorne GreeneSam Royce1986 TV Asahi edition 1987 Wall Street Martin Sheen Carl Fox The Last Emperor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Chang 1989 TV Asahi edition The Running Man Richard Dawson Damon Killian 1990 TV Asahi edition 1990 The Exorcist III Ed Flanders Father Dyer 1991 Dead Again Derek Jacobi Franklyn Madson 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 Amistad Anthony Hopkins John Quincy Adams 1998 Meet Joe Black William Parrish ? The X-Files William B. Davis Cigarette Smoking Man
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