Takeshi Kusaka

Takeshi Kusaka
Born	(1931-02-24)February 24, 1931 Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Died	May 15, 2017(2017-05-15) (aged 86) Spain
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1954–2017

Takeshi Kusaka (日下 武史, Kusaka Takeshi, February 24, 1931 – May 15, 2017) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Toshima, Tokyo. He was the founder of the Shiki Theatre Company. He remarried with actress Fujiko Kimura in 2010.

Roles

Live action films

• Assassination (1964) (Narahara Shigeru)
• Honoo to onna (Flame and Women) (1967)
• The Petrified Forest (1973)
• Fumō chitai (1976) (Koide)
• Tempo suikō-den (1976)
• Antarctica (1983) (Hokkaidō University professor)
• Deaths in Tokimeki (1984)
• Those Swell Yakuza (1988)
• Teito Taisen (1989) (Fumimaro Konoe)
• Noh Mask Murders (1991)
• Mr. Moonlight (1991)
• Maadadayo (1993) (Doctor Kobayashi)
• Kaettekite Kogarashi Monjiro (1993)
• Shin sarariiman senka (1997)
• Mars Sweet Home (2000)

Live action television

• Ōedo Sōsamō (Narrator)
• Ōoku (1983 series) (Ryūkō)

Anime television

• Ginga Eiyū Densetsu (Document voiceover (episode 56))

Theater

• The Cherry Orchard
• Hamlet
• The Merchant of Venice
• Alderle or a saint
• Antigone
• Troy war will not happen
• Orphe and Yuriddis
• lark
• Understand and accumulate!
• who's life？
• Equus
• Sluice
• Hikarigoke
• Yuriddis
• Ondine
• A man who sells memories
• Rokumeikan
• Anne of Green Gables
• beauty and the beast
• Devil and God’'

Theatrical animation

• Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (Vega)
• Twilight of the Cockroaches

Dubbing roles

Live action

• 99 and 44/100% Dead (Harry Crown)
• Amadeus (Antonio Salieri)
• Avalon (Game Master)
• The Cassandra Crossing (Doctor Jonathan Chamberlain)
• Columbo (Robert Conrad)
• Hannibal (TV Asahi edition) (Hannibal Lecter)
• Les Misérables (Inspector Javert)
• Sitting Bull (Major Robert Parrish)
• The Thief of Paris (Georges Randal)
• The Untouchables (Eliot Ness)

Animation

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Judge Claude Frollo (speaking voice))
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (Dr. Harley Street)

Honors

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1996)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2002)
• Art Festival Award- Incentive award
• Arts Reward - Minister of Education Award
• Kinokuniya Theater Award

External links

• Profile