Ryūsuke Ōbayashi

Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (大林 隆介, Ōbayashi Ryūsuke, born March 13, 1946 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor. Some of his best known roles include Soun Tendo in Ranma ½ and Captain Kiichi Goto in Patlabor. He was formerly credited as Ryūnosuke Ōbayashi (大林　隆之介, Ōbayashi Ryūnosuke), and his real name is Shōchi Ōbayashi (大林　昌一, Ōbayashi Shōichi). He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce.

Filmography

Television animation

• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) (Exsedol Folmo)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (Ben Wooder)
• Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986) (Rakan Dahkaran)
• Patlabor (1989) (Captain Kiichi Gotō)
• Ranma ½ (1989) (Sōun Tendō)
• DNA² (1994) (Yokomori)
• Macross 7 (1994) (Exsedol Folmo)
• Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (1996) (Principal Miura)
• Rurouni Kenshin (1996) (Raijuta Isurugi)
• Fancy Lala (1998) (Mystery Man)
• Serial Experiments Lain (1998) (Yasuo Iwakura)
• Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (1999) (Ken Sanada)
• To Heart (1999) (Gengoro Nagase)
• InuYasha (2001) (Daija (The False Water God))
• Monster (2005) (Fritz Vardemann)
• Hell Girl (2006) (Ryōsuke Sekine)
• D.Gray-man (2008) (Malcolm C. Lvellie)
• Hyouge Mono (2011) (Yamanoue Sōji)
• WataMote (2013) (Narrator)
• Buddy Complex (2014) (Alessandro Fermi)

Original video animation (OVA)

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1989) (Uranff)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (Nilsson)
• Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (1995) (Bif Standard)
• Jungle de Ikou! (1997) (Fuyuhiko)

Theatrical animation

• Techno Police 21C (1982) (Blader)
• Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) (Exsedol 4970)
• Patlabor: The Movie (1989) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
• Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
• WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
• Atagoal (2006) (Kara'agemaru)

Video games

• Final Fantasy XII (2006) (Judge Ghis)
• Macross Triangle Frontier (2011) (Exsedol Folmo)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (2012) (Takeo Kitagawa)

Drama CD

• Soul Eater (2005) (Shinigami)

Dubbing

Live-action

• The Amityville Horror (Chief of Police (Rich Komenich))
• Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (Admiral Henry D (Glenn Morshower))
• Black Book (General Käutner (Christian Berkel))
• D-Tox (2006 TV Tokyo edition) (Jack Bennett (Stephen Lang))
• Restoration (King Charles II (Sam Neill))
• Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1975 NTV edition) (Richard Mays (James Fox))
• The Unborn (Gordon Beldon (James Remar))

Animation

• The Animatrix (Client)
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Xun You, Zhang Zhao, Han Sui, and Huang Zhong)

References

External links

• (in Japanese) 81 Produce
• Ryūsuke Ōbayashi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia