Taro Ishida

Tarō Ishida
Born	March 16, 1944 (1944-03-16) Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Other names	Gentarō Ishida
Occupation	Actor, seiyū

Tarō Ishida (石田 太郎 , Ishida Tarō) (March 16, 1944 - ) is a Japanese actor and seiyū from the city of Kyoto.

Education

Ishida attended Sophia University.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Ishida is a chief priest at a Buddhist temple in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.^{[citation needed]}

Ishida is affiliated with Granpapa Production and his former stage name is Gentarō Ishida (石田 弦太郎, Ishida Gentarō).

Roles

Television animation

• Alcatraz Connection (Assistant Inspector Terry Crown)
• Astro Boy (General Red)
• Black Jack (Toranomon)
• Detective Conan (Police Inspector Radish Redwood)
• GeGeGe no Kitarō (fifth series) (Vampire Elite Johnny)
• Requiem from the Darkness (Emon Shibamigi)
• Time Patrol-Tai Otasukeman (Napoleon)

OVA

• Giant Robo (Kon World Devil King Han Zui)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Heydrich Lang (second voice))
• Record of Lodoss War (Emperor Beld)

Theater animation

• Akira (The Colonel)
• Arcadia of My Youth (Zeda)
• Brave Story (Bishop Daimon)
• Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (Teiji Moriya)
• The Castle of Cagliostro (Count Cagliostro)
• Fist of the North Star (Narrator)
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Nightmare King)
• Metropolis (Duke Red)
• Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (as "Gentarō Ishida") (Saint Asgard)
• One Piece: Dead End Adventure (Gasparde)

Tokusatsu

• Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Kentaro Hisatsu)

Video games

• Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Exdeath)
• Kingdom Hearts (King Triton)
• Kingdom Hearts II (King Triton, Eeyore)

Dubbing roles

• Peter Falk
• Gene Hackman
• 48 Hrs. (Wednesday Road Show edition, as "Gentarō Ishida") (Jack Cates)
• Alien 3 (TV Asahi edition) (Lenard Dillon)
• Apocalypse Now (Colonel Walter E. Kurtz)
• Armour of God II: Operation Condor (Fuji TV edition) (Adolf)
• Batman Begins (DVD and Nippon TV editions) (Carmine Falcone)
• Batman Returns (TV edition) (Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin)
• Behind Enemy Lines (Admiral Leslie Reigart)
• Ben-Hur (Old Nippon TV edition) (Ben-Hur)
• Big Fish (Old Edward Bloom)
• The Cannonball Run (Fuji TV edition) (Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing)
• Cannonball Run II (Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing)
• Cocoon (Walter)
• Commando (Bennett)
• Conan the Barbarian (Nippon TV edition) (Thulsa Doom)
• Cop Land (TV edition) (Ray Donlan)
• Dances with Wolves (Kicking Bird)
• Die Hard 2 (TV Asahi edition) (Trudeau)
• Die Hard with a Vengeance (Fuji TV edition) (Inspector Walter Cobb)
• ER (Richard Elliot)
• Evolution (Brigadier General Russell Woodman)
• First Blood (1985 Nippon TV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions) (Sheriff Will Teasle)
• Godzilla (TV edition) (Mayor Ebert)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (Detective Roland Castlebeck)
• Hannibal (VHS and TV Tokyo edition) (Hannibal Lecter)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Nippon TV edition) (Mola Ram)
• K-9 (TV edition) (Lyman)
• Lawrence of Arabia (TV Asahi edition) (Auda ibu Tayi)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Treebeard)
• Men in Black (Nippon TV edition) (Chief Zed)
• Men in Black II (TV edition) (Chief Zed)
• Mississippi Burning (TV edition) (Agent Rupert Anderson)
• Project A (San)
• The Quick and the Dead (John Herod)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Video and DVD edition) (Belloq)
• Red Dragon (TV Tokyo edition) (Hannibal Lecter)
• The Running Man (Fuji TV edition) (Damon Killian)
• Saw series (DVD edition) (Jigsaw Killer)
• The Shining (TV Tokyo edition) (Jack Torrance)
• The Silence of the Lambs (TV Asahi edition) (Hannibal Lecter)
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (TV Asahi edition) (Darth Vader)
• The Sting (Sunday Dub Theater edition) (Lieutenant William Snyder)
• Unforgiven (Little Bill Daggett)

Animation

+Cats Don't Dance (Max)

• The Book of Pooh (Eeyore)
• The Fox and the Hound (Aduit Copper)
• The Little Mermaid (re-release edition) (King Triton)
• The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (King Triton)
• Oliver and Company (Sykes)
• Peter Pan (Buena Vista edition) (Indian Chief)
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (Eeyore)
• The Tigger Movie (Eeyore)
• Winnie-the-Pooh (Eeyore)

External links

• Tarō Ishida official profile
• Taro Ishida at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia