# Tarō Ishida

Tarō Ishida (石田 太郎, Ishida Tarō, March 16, 1944 – September 21, 2013), born Gentarō Ishida (石田 弦太郎, Ishida Gentarō), was a Japanese actor, voice actor and Shin Buddhist priest from the city of Kyoto. He was affiliated with Granpapa Production.

## Biography

Ishida was born in Kyoto, Japan on March 16, 1944, the son of actor Shigeki Ishida. He attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating. Ishida was also a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple Jōkei-ji at Kanazawa, Ishikawa.
He was married to actress Fusako Tachibana until her death in 2006.
Ishida died on September 21, 2013, from myocardial infarction.

## Filmography
### Films

* A Taxing Woman's Return (1988) – Kiyohara
* Violent Cop (1989) – Detective Tomosato
* Heaven and Earth (1990) – Takeda Nobushige
* A Touch of Fever (1993) – Yoriko's Father
* Oishinbo (1996) – Koizumi
* Pride (1998) – Akira Mutō
* Ikinai (1998) – Noguchi
* Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001) – SDF Officer
* Quill (2004) – Hiroshi Totsuka
* Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan (2006) – Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu
* Departures (2008) – Sonezaki
* Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009) – City Council Member

### Television dramas

* Oshin (1983)
* Sanga Moyu (1984)
* Musashibō Benkei (1986) – Kajiwara Kagetoki
* Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) – Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
* Kasuga no Tsubone (1989) – Ōkubo Tadachika
* Shomuni (1998) – Kato
* Aoi (2000) – Ōkubo Tadachika
* The Family (2007) – Yasuda

### Television animation

* Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – General Red
* Black Jack – Toranomon
* Detective Conan – Police Inspector Radish Redwood
* GeGeGe no Kitarō (fifth series) – Vampire Elite Johnny
* Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection – Assistant Inspector Terry Crown
* Requiem from the Darkness – Emon Shibamigi
* Space Brothers – Deneil Young
* Time Patrol-Tai Otasukeman – Napoleon

### 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

* Lupin III: 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 (2008) – Exdeath
* Kingdom Hearts (2002) – King Triton
* Kingdom Hearts II (2005) – King Triton, Eeyore
* Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy (2011) - Exdeath

### 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 (2000 Fuji TV edition) – Senator Kevin Keeley
** The Chamber – Sam Cayhall
** Extreme Measures – Dr. Lawrence Myrick
** Absolute Power – President Alan Richmond
** Enemy of the State (2003 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
* Anthony Hopkins
** The Silence of the Lambs (1995 TV Asahi edition) – Hannibal Lecter
** Hannibal – Hannibal Lecter
** Red Dragon (2006 TV Tokyo edition) – Hannibal Lecter
** The City of Your Final Destination – Adam Gund
* Peter Falk
** Columbo – Lt. Columbo (Season 8~)
** Undisputed – Mendy Ripstein
** Next – Irv
* 48 Hrs. (1985 Nippon TV edition, as "Gentarō Ishida") – Jack Cates (Nick Nolte)
* About Schmidt – Warren R. Schmidt (Jack Nicholson)
* Alien 3 (1998 TV Asahi edition) – Leonard Dillon (Charles S. Dutton)
* The Amityville Horror (1982 NTV edition) – George Lutz (James Brolin)
* Apocalypse Now – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
* Armour of God II: Operation Condor (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Adolf (Aldo Sambrell)
* Batman Begins – William Earle (Rutger Hauer)
* Batman Begins (2007 Nippon TV edition) – Carmine Falcone (Tom Wilkinson)
* Batman Returns (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin (Danny DeVito)
* Beginners – Hal Fields (Christopher Plummer)
* Ben-Hur (1979 Nippon TV edition) – Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston)
* Big Fish – Old Edward Bloom (Albert Finney)
* The Bridge on the River Kwai – Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa)
* Brokeback Mountain – Joe Aguirre (Randy Quaid)
* The Cannonball Run (1984 Fuji TV edition) – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam)
* Cannonball Run II – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing (Jack Elam)
* Cocoon – Walter (Brian Dennehy)
* Commando – Bennett (Vernon Wells)
* Conan the Barbarian (1985 Nippon TV edition) – Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones)
* Cop Land (2000 Nippon TV edition) – Ray Donlan (Harvey Keitel)
* Dances with Wolves – Kicking Bird (Graham Greene)
* The Departed – Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson)
* Die Hard 2 (1994 TV Asahi edition) – Trudeau (Fred Thompson)
* Die Hard with a Vengeance (1998 Fuji TV edition) – Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryggman)
* The Empire Strikes Back (1992 TV Asahi edition) – Darth Vader (James Earl Jones)
* ER – Richard Elliot (Armand Assante)
* Evolution (2005 NTV edition) – Brigadier General Russell Woodman (Ted Levine)
* First Blood (1985 NTV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions) – Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy)
* Godzilla (2001 NTV edition) – Mayor Ebert (Michael Lerner)
* Gone in 60 Seconds – Detective Roland Castlebeck (Delroy Lindo)
* Green Zone – Martin Brown (Brendan Gleeson)
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Doctor Parnassus (Christopher Plummer)
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1987 Nippon TV edition) – Mola Ram (Amrish Puri)
* K-9 (1993 TV Asahi edition) – Lyman (Kevin Tighe)
* Lawrence of Arabia (1981 TV Asahi edition) – Colonel Harry Brighton (Anthony Quayle)
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Treebeard (John Rhys-Davies)
* Men in Black (2001 Nippon TV edition) – Chief Zed (Rip Torn)
* Men in Black II (2005 TV Asahi edition) – Chief Zed (Rip Torn)
* The NeverEnding Story – Falkor, Gmork (Alan Oppenheimer)
* Project A – San (Dick Wei)
* The Punisher – Jake Berkowitz (Louis Gossett Jr.)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (1993 DVD edition) – René Belloq (Paul Freeman)
* The Raven – Captain Charles Hamilton (Brendan Gleeson)
* Robin Hood – Sir Walter Loxley (Max von Sydow)
* The Running Man (1989 Fuji TV edition) – Damon Killian (Richard Dawson)
* Saw series – Jigsaw (Tobin Bell)
* Scarface (1989 TV Asahi edition) – Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia)
* The Shining (1996 TV Tokyo edition) – Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson)
* Silent Hill: Revelation – Leonard Wolf (Malcolm McDowell)
* Sleuth – Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine)
* The Smurfs 2 – Victor Doyle (Brendan Gleeson)
* The Sting (1991 TV Asahi edition) – Lieutenant William Snyder (Charles Durning)
* This Boy's Life – Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro)

#### Animation

* The Book of Pooh – Eeyore
* Cars 2 – Mel Dorado
* 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