# Masato Yamanouchi

Masato Yamanouchi (山内 雅人, Yamanouchi Masato, April 3, 1929, Tokyo – April 7, 2003, Tokyo) 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 (山内 幹雄) 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 |
| 1963 | The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon | わんぱく王子の大蛇退治 | Animated film | Wadatsumi; Kushinada-Hime's father |
| 1964 | Akō Rōshi | 赤穂浪士 | TV drama | Uesugi Tsunanori |
| 1966 | Cyborg 009 | サイボーグ・ゼロ・ゼロ・ナイン | Animated film | Black Ghost |
| 1977 | Rascal the Raccoon | あらいぐまラスカル | TV animation | Willard North |
| 1978 | Future Boy Conan | 未来少年コナン | TV animation | Grandpa, Dr. Lao |
| 1979 | Lupin the 3rd Part II | ルパン三世 | TV animation | Napoleon the Eleventh |
| 1983 | Tokugawa Ieyasu | 徳川 家康 | TV drama | Ikoma Chikamasa |
| 1994 | Armored Trooper Votoms: Brilliantly Shining Heresy | 装甲騎兵ボトムズ 赫奕たる異端 | OVA | Viacheslav da Montewells |
| 1995 | Catnapped! | とつぜん！猫の国 バニパルウィット | Animated drama | Master Sandada |
| 1995 | Ghost in the Shell | 攻殻機動隊 | Animated drama | Foreign Minister |
| 1996 | The Vision of Escaflowne | 天空のエスカフローネ | TV animation | Dornkirk |
| 1998 | Silent Möbius | サイレントメビウス | TV animation | Kōhō Yamigumo |

### Dubbing roles

| Year | Title | Original actor | Role | Notes |
| 1938 | Suez | Tyrone Power | Ferdinand de Lesseps | |
| 1940 | The Mark of Zorro | Tyrone Power | Don Diego Vega/Zorro | |
| 1941 | Blood and Sand | Tyrone Power | Juan Gallardo | |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Tyrone Power | 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 |
| 1953 | Terminal Station | Montgomery Clift | Giovanni Doria | TV edition |
| 1953 | Roman Holiday | Eddie Albert | Irving Radovich | 1972 Fuji TV edition |
| 1955 | The Long Gray Line | Tyrone Power | Martin Maher | |
| 1955 | Untamed | Tyrone Power | Paul van Riebeck | |
| 1956 | The Eddy Duchin Story | Tyrone Power | Eddy Duchin | |
| 1957 | Raintree County | Montgomery Clift | John Wickliff Shawnessey | |
| 1957 | Witness for the Prosecution | Tyrone Power | Leonard Vole | |
| 1957 | 12 Angry Men | Edward Binns | Juror #6 | 1974 NTV edition |
| 1959 | Suddenly, Last Summer | Montgomery Clift | Dr. Cukrowicz | |
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | Montgomery Clift | Rudolph Peterson | TV edition |
| 1961 | The Misfits | Montgomery Clift | Perce Howland | 1966 TV Asahi edition |
| 1962 | Freud: The Secret Passion | Montgomery Clift | Sigmund Freud | |
| 1966 | The Defector | Montgomery Clift | 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 | |
| 1974 | Earthquake | Lorne Greene | Sam Royce | 1986 TV Asahi edition |
| 1987 | Wall Street | Martin Sheen | Carl Fox | |
| 1987 | The Last Emperor | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Chang | 1989 TV Asahi edition |
| 1987 | 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 | |
| 1991 | 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 | |
| 1997 | Amistad | Anthony Hopkins | John Quincy Adams | |
| 1998 | Meet Joe Black | Anthony Hopkins | William Parrish | |
| ? | The X-Files | William B. Davis | Cigarette Smoking Man | |