# Akira Kume

Akira Kume (久米 明, Kume Akira, 8 February 1924 – 23 April 2020) was a Japanese actor and voice actor.
He died on 23 April 2020 from heart failure.

## 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
* 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
* Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding (short film) (1999) - Mr Minamoto/Shizuka's Papa

### 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)

## Family

He was the father of Daisaku Kume, who married Saki Kubota in 1985.