Hikojiro Matsumura

Hikijiro Matsumura (1927-2006) was a Japanese actor and voice artist who appeared in Big Bird in Japan as the grandfather of the family with whom Big Bird stays. For the NHK dub of The Dark Crystal, he dubbed the dying Mystic Master (urSu).
Matsumura acted on Japanese television beginning in 1960, often in historical dramas and crime series. One of his last on-camera roles was as a village elder in a 2002 episode of Ultraman Cosmos. Matsumara's voice was heard in a few anime projects, notably in Roujin Z as an elderly man whose computerized hospital bed turns into a battle robot. More active in dubbing overseas imports, he lent his voice to Max Von Sydow in The Exorcist and its sequel, Vincent Price in The Whales of August, Art Carney in Steel, Dooley Wilson as Sam in Casablanca, Claude Rains in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Jack Albertson in The Poseidon Adventure, Sam Jaffe in Ben-Hur, George Coulouris in Murder on the Orient Express, and guest stars on Columbo and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
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