was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator.
As of 2019, with his role as the narrator of the NHK show Tsurube's Salute to Families, he was the world's oldest active voice actor.
Biography Kume was born in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan on February 8, 1924.
He graduated from Azabu Junior High School under their older school system and Tokyo University of Commerce, now known as Hitotsubashi University. Tadashi Nagai, the former president of Mitsui Home, was his classmate in junior high and college./06/04, 日経産業新聞 (in Japanese). People such as Masaru Hayami were his classmates in the university's preparatory program.「戦争末期から戦後初期の東京商科大学」(in Japanese).
After experiencing the end of World War II as a student soldier and returning to university, he was deeply moved by the Haiyuza Theatre Company's production of Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector and decided to found a drama research group. In 1947, he co-founded the "Budou no Kai" theater troupe with Junji Kinoshita, Yasue Yamamoto, and other people.
He was appointed lecturer at the College of Art, Nihon University in 1972, and professor at the same university in 1975. In 1992, he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon, and received the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette in 1997.「秋の叙勲 晴れの受章者520人 あふれる喜び、3氏に聞く」in『読売新聞』(in Japanese). November 3, 1997. Morning Edition.
In 2019, he officially retired from narration work and moved into a Tokyo nursing home.
Death Kume died from heart failure on April 23, 2020, at the age of 96.
Personal life He was the father of Daisaku Kume, who married Saki Kubota in 1985.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 . Christian Today. April 23, 2020.「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 . Daily Shincho of Shinchosha. September 18, 2020.89 週刊朝日 (Shukan Asahi) 156
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) Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan (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 Musashibō Benkei (1986) - Minamoto no Yorimasa 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 Botchan (1980) - Narrator In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992) - Narrator Phoenix (2004) - Narrator
Theatrical animation Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie (1982) - Professor Toporo Crusher Joe (1983) - Dan Penguin's Memory - Shiawase Monogatari (1985) - The Librarian Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding (short film) (1999) - Yoshio Minamoto (Shizuka's father)
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)) 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 SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (Pastmaster)
Honours Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (1992) Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1997)
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