Taro Ishida

Tarō Ishida (石田 太郎, Ishida Tarō, March 16, 1944 – September 21, 2013) was a Japanese actor and voice actor from the city of Kyoto.

Education

Ishida attended the Foreign Language Department (Spanish) of Sophia University, but quit without graduating.^[1]

Career

Ishida was a chief priest at the Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist temple Jōkei-ji at Kanazawa, Ishikawa.^[2] He was affiliated with Granpapa Production and his former stage name was Gentarō Ishida (石田 弦太郎, Ishida Gentarō).

Death

Ishida died on September 21, 2013 from myocardial infarction.^[3]

Filmography

Films

• A Taxing Woman's Return – Kiyohara
• Violent Cop – Detective Tomosato
• Heaven and Earth – Takeda Nobushige
• Oishinbo – Koizumi
• Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack – SDF Officer
• Quill – Hiroshi Totsuka
• Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan – Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu
• Departures – Sonezaki
• Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky – City Council Member

Television dramas

• Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) – Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu
• Shomuni (1998) – Kato
• Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000) – Ōkubo Tadachika
• Karei-naru Ichizoku (2007) – Yasuda

Television animation

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

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

Theater animation

• 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 – Exdeath
• Kingdom Hearts – King Triton
• Kingdom Hearts II – King Triton, Eeyore

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 (Fuji TV edition) – Senator Kevin Keeley
  • The Chamber – Sam Cayhall
  • Extreme Measures – Dr. Lawrence Myrick
  • Absolute Power – President Alan Richmond
  • Enemy of the State (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
• Peter Falk
  • Columbo – Lt. Columbo (Season 8~)
  • Undisputed – Mendy Ripstein
  • Next – Irv
• 48 Hrs. (Wednesday Road Show edition, as "Gentarō Ishida") – Jack Cates
• Alien 3 (TV Asahi edition) – Lenard Dillon
• Apocalypse Now – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
• Armour of God II: Operation Condor (Fuji TV edition) – Adolf
• Batman Begins (DVD and Nippon TV editions) – Carmine Falcone
• Batman Returns (TV edition) – Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin
• Ben-Hur (Old Nippon TV edition) – Ben-Hur
• Big Fish – Old Edward Bloom
• The Cannonball Run (Fuji TV edition) – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing
• Cannonball Run II – Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing
• Cocoon – Walter
• Commando – Bennett
• Conan the Barbarian (Nippon TV edition) – Thulsa Doom
• Cop Land (TV edition) – Ray Donlan
• Dances with Wolves – Kicking Bird
• Die Hard 2 (TV Asahi edition) – Trudeau
• Die Hard with a Vengeance (Fuji TV edition) – Inspector Walter Cobb
• ER – Richard Elliot
• Evolution – Brigadier General Russell Woodman
• First Blood (1985 Nippon TV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions) – Sheriff Will Teasle
• Godzilla (TV edition) – Mayor Ebert
• Gone in 60 Seconds – Detective Roland Castlebeck
• Hannibal (VHS and TV Tokyo edition) – Hannibal Lecter
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Nippon TV edition) – Mola Ram
• K-9 (TV edition) – Lyman
• Lawrence of Arabia (TV Asahi edition) – Auda ibu Tayi
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Treebeard
• Men in Black (Nippon TV edition) – Chief Zed
• Men in Black II (TV edition) – Chief Zed
• Project A – San
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Video and DVD edition) – Belloq
• Red Dragon (TV Tokyo edition) – Hannibal Lecter
• The Running Man (Fuji TV edition) – Damon Killian
• Saw series (DVD edition) – Jigsaw Killer
• The Shining (TV Tokyo edition) – Jack Torrance
• The Silence of the Lambs (TV Asahi edition) – Hannibal Lecter
• The Smurfs 2 – Victor Doyle
• The Empire Strikes Back (TV Asahi edition) – Darth Vader
• The Sting (Sunday Dub Theater edition) – Lieutenant William Snyder

Animation

• The Book of Pooh – Eeyore
• 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

References

External links

• Taro Ishida at the Internet Movie Database
• Tarō Ishida official profile
• Obituary - Japanese only
• Taro Ishida at Anime News Network's encyclopedia