Kei Tomiyama

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Kei Tomiyama
Born Kunichika Tomiyama
October 31, 1938
Anshan, Fengtian, Manchukuo
Died September 25, 1995(1995-09-25) (aged 56)
Shinjuku, Tokyo
Occupation Actor, voice actor, narrator
Years active 1965 - 1995

Kunichika Tomiyama (冨山 邦親 Tomiyama Kunichika, October 31, 1938 - September 25, 1995), better known by his stage name Kei Tomiyama (富山 敬 Tomiyama Kei), was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Anshan, Manchukuo. During his life, Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab.

Tomiyama is best known for his roles in Tiger Mask (Naoto Date/Tiger Mask), Space Battleship Yamato (Susumu Kodai), UFO Robo Grendizer (Duke Fleed/Daisuke Umon),the Time Bokan series (Narrator), GeGeGe no Kitaro 3rd Series (Nezumi-Otoko), Chibi Maruko-chan (Tomozō Sakura), and Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Yang Wenli).

Life

Tomiyama dropped out of Nihon University's art department. With his distinctively tender voice, Tomiyama would portray numerous kinds of roles during his career, ranging from heroic, comedic, young, and old. At 9:07 AM on September 25, 1995, Tomiyama suddenly died of pancreatic cancer in Shinjuku, Tokyo at the age of 56. In 2007, Tomiyama was posthumously awarded the Special Achievement Award of the first Seiyu Awards.

Successors

After Tomiyama's death, a number of voice actors took over his ongoing roles.

In the Harlock Saga, in addition to replacing Tomiyama as Tochiro, Kōichi Yamadera also supplied the voice of Captain Harlock which up to that point was done by Makio Inoue who is still living.

Roles

Major roles in bold

Television animation

OVA

Theater animation

  • All Dogs Go To Heaven Charlie B. Barken
  • Golgo 13 (Robert Dawson)
  • Yellow Submarine (Ringo Starr)

Dubbing roles

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