Taro Ishida

Tarō Ishida
Native name	石田 太郎
Born	Gentarō Ishida March 16, 1944 Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Died	September 21, 2013 (aged 69) Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Cause of death	Myocardial infarction
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1960–2013
Religion	Hongan-ji-ha Jōdo Shinshū
Spouse(s)	Fusako Tachibana
Website	Granpapa

Tarō Ishida (石田 太郎 Ishida Tarō, March 16, 1944 – September 21, 2013) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from the city of Kyoto.

Education

Ishida attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating.^[1]

Career

Ishida was a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple Jōkei-ji at Kanazawa, Ishikawa.^[2] He was affiliated with Granpapa Production and his former stage name was Gentarō Ishida (石田 弦太郎 Ishida Gentarō).

Death

Ishida died on September 21, 2013 from myocardial infarction.^[3]

Filmography

Films

• A Taxing Woman's Return – Kiyohara
• Violent Cop – Detective Tomosato
• Heaven and Earth – Takeda Nobushige
• Oishinbo – Koizumi
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack – SDF Officer
• Quill – Hiroshi Totsuka
• Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan – Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu
• Departures – Sonezaki
• Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky – City Council Member

Television dramas

• Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) – Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
• Shomuni (1998) – Kato
• Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000) – Ōkubo Tadachika
• Karei-naru Ichizoku (2007) – Yasuda

Television animation

• Alcatraz Connection – Assistant Inspector Terry Crown
• Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – 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
• Space Brothers – Deneil Young

Original video animation (OVA)

• Bio Hunter (Tabu)
• Giant Robo – Demon King of Chaos Fan Rui
• Harlock Saga – Wotan)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes – Heydrich Lang (second voice)
• Record of Lodoss War – Emperor Beld

Theatrical animation

• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) – Count Cagliostro
• Arcadia of My Youth (1982) – Zeda
• Final Yamato (1983) – Lugal
• The Dagger of Kamui (1985) – Tenkai, Saigō Takamori
• Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight (as "Gentarō Ishida") (1985) – Saint Asgard
• Fist of the North Star (1986) – Narrator
• Akira (1988) – Colonel Shikishima
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) – Nightmare King
• Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper (1997) – Teiji Moriya
• Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission (1998) – Mouse
• Metropolis (2001) – Duke Red
• One Piece: Dead End Adventure (2003) – Gasparde
• Brave Story (2006) – Bishop Daimon

Tokusatsu

• Kamen Rider 555 – Joji Soeno
• Juken Sentai Gekiranger – Kentaro Hisatsu
• Ultraman Story – Father of Ultra

Video games

• Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea ~Losing of Jewel's secret – King Triton
• Dissidia: Final Fantasy – Exdeath
• Kingdom Hearts – King Triton
• Kingdom Hearts II – King Triton, Eeyore

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• Gene Hackman
  • The Domino Principle – Roy Tucker
  • Superman II (1984 TV Asahi edition) – Lex Luthor
  • Under Fire – Alex Grazier
  • No Way Out (TV Tokyo edition) – Defense Secretary David Brice
  • Mississippi Burning (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Agent Rupert Anderson
  • The Package (1993 TBS edition) – Sgt. Johnny Gallagher
  • Loose Cannons – MacArthur Stern
  • Postcards from the Edge – Lowell Kolchek
  • Narrow Margin – Robert Caulfield
  • Class Action – Jedediah Tucker Ward
  • Unforgiven – Little Bill Daggett
  • Geronimo: An American Legend – Brig. Gen. George Crook
  • Wyatt Earp (1997 TV Tokyo edition) – Nicholas Earp
  • Crimson Tide – Captain Frank Ramsey
  • The Quick and the Dead – John Herod
  • The Birdcage (Fuji TV edition) – Senator Kevin Keeley
  • The Chamber – Sam Cayhall
  • Extreme Measures – Dr. Lawrence Myrick
  • Absolute Power – President Alan Richmond
  • Enemy of the State (Fuji TV edition) – Edward "Brill" Lyle
  • Under Suspicion – Henry Hearst
  • Behind Enemy Lines – Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart
  • Heist – Joe Moore
  • The Royal Tenenbaums – Royal Tenenbaum
  • Runaway Jury – Rankin Fitch
• Peter Falk
  • Columbo – Lt. Columbo (Season 8~)
  • Undisputed – Mendy Ripstein
  • Next – Irv
• 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
• 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
• Project A – San
• 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
• The Smurfs 2 – Victor Doyle
• The Empire Strikes Back (TV Asahi edition) – Darth Vader
• The Sting (Sunday Dub Theater edition) – Lieutenant William Snyder

Animation

• The Book of Pooh – Eeyore
• The Fox and the Hound – Adult 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
• Planes – Skipper Riley
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin – Eeyore
• Shark Tale – Don Feinberg
• The Tigger Movie – Eeyore
• Winnie-the-Pooh – Eeyore

Japanese voiceover

• Peter Pan's Flight – Indian Chief
• Pooh's Hunny Hunt – Eeyore

References

1. 石田太郎さん急死…草なぎ剛ショック！ドラマ収録中に急変 (in Japanese). www.sponichi.co.jp. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
2. http://www.quexpo.com/htdocs/mt/archives/000102.html
3. Taro Ishida's obituary (Japanese)

External links

• Taro Ishida at the Internet Movie Database
• Tarō Ishida official profile
• Obituary - Japanese only
• Taro Ishida at Anime News Network's encyclopedia