, born , 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
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1988 || A Taxing Woman's Return || Kiyohara ||
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| 1989 || Violent Cop || Detective Tomosato ||
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| 1990 || Heaven and Earth || Takeda Nobushige ||
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| 1993 || A Touch of Fever || Yoriko's Father ||
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| 1996 || Oishinbo || Koizumi ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1998 || Pride || Akira Mutō ||
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| Ikinai || Noguchi ||
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| 2001 || Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack || SDF Officer ||
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| 2004 || Quill || Hiroshi Totsuka ||
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| 2006 || Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan || Minister of Defense Seigo Umezu ||
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| 2008 || Departures || Sonezaki ||
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| 2009 || Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky || City Council Member ||
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Television dramas
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1983 || Oshin || ||
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| 1984 || Sanga Moyu || ||
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| 1986 || Musashibō Benkei || Kajiwara Kagetoki ||
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| 1987 || Dokuganryū Masamune || Nihonmatsu Yoshitsugu ||
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| 1989 || Kasuga no Tsubone || Ōkubo Tadachika ||
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| 1998 || Shomuni || Kato ||
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| 2000 || Aoi || Ōkubo Tadachika ||
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| 2007 || The Family || Yasuda ||
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Television animation
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1980 || Time Patrol-Tai Otasukeman || Napoleon ||
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| 2001 || Lupin III: Alcatraz Connection || Assistant Inspector Terry Crown ||
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| 2002 || Detective Conan || Police Inspector Radish Redwood ||
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| 2003 || Requiem from the Darkness || Emon Shibamigi ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2004 || Astro Boy: Mighty Atom || Duke Red ||
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| Black Jack || Toranomon ||
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| 2007 || 'GeGeGe no Kitarō' || Vampire Elite Johnny || Fifth series
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| 2012-2013 || Space Brothers || Deneil Young ||
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Original video animation (OVA)
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1990-1991 || Record of Lodoss War || Emperor Beld ||
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| 1994-1996 || Legend of the Galactic Heroes || Heydrich Lang (second voice) ||
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| 1995 || Bio Hunter || Tabu ||
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| 1995-1998 || Giant Robo || Demon King of Chaos Fan Rui ||
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| 1999 || Harlock Saga || Wotan ||
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Theatrical animation
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 1979 || Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro || Count Cagliostro ||
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| 1982 || Arcadia of My Youth || Zeda ||
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| 1983 || Final Yamato || Lugal ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1985 || The Dagger of Kamui || Tenkai, Saigō Takamori ||
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| Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight || Saint Asgard || As "Gentarō Ishida
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| 1986 || Fist of the North Star || Narrator ||
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| 1988 || Akira || Colonel Shikishima ||
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| 1989 || Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland || Nightmare King ||
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| 1997 || Case Closed: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper || Teiji Moriya ||
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| 1998 || Crayon Shin-chan: Blitzkrieg! Pig's Hoof's Secret Mission || Mouse ||
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| 2001 || Metropolis || Duke Red ||
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| 2003 || One Piece: Dead End Adventure || Gasparde ||
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| 2006 || Brave Story || Bishop Daimon ||
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Tokusatsu
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| 1984 || Ultraman Story || Father of Ultra ||
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| 2003 || Kamen Rider 555 || Joji Soeno ||
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| 2007 || Juken Sentai Gekiranger || Kentaro Hisatsu ||
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Video games
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes
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| 2001 || Adventure of Tokyo Disney Sea ~Losing of Jewel's secret || rowspan="2" | King Triton||
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| 2002 || Kingdom Hearts ||
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| 2005 || Kingdom Hearts II || King Triton, Eeyore ||
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| 2008 || Dissidia: Final Fantasy || rowspan="2" | Exdeath||
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| Apocalypse Now || Colonel Walter E. Kurtz ||Marlon Brando || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1980 || The Empire Strikes Back || Darth Vader || James Earl Jones || 1992 TV Asahi edition ||
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| The Shining || Jack Torrance || Jack Nicholson || 1996 TV Tokyo edition ||
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| Superman II || Lex Luthor|| Gene Hackman || 1984 TV Asahi edition ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1981 || The Cannonball Run || Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing || Jack Elam || 1984 Fuji TV edition ||
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| Raiders of the Lost Ark || René Belloq || Paul Freeman || 1993 DVD edition ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1982 || Conan the Barbarian || Thulsa Doom || James Earl Jones || 1985 Nippon TV edition ||
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| 48 Hrs. || Jack Cates || Nick Nolte || 1985 Nippon TV edition, as "Gentarō Ishida ||
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| First Blood || Sheriff Will Teasle || Brian Dennehy || 1985 NTV, 1990 TBS and 1995 TV Asahi editions ||
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| rowspan="4" | 1983 || Cannonball Run II || Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing || Jack Elam || ||
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| Project A || San || Dick Wei || ||
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| Scarface || Frank Lopez || Robert Loggia || 1989 TV Asahi edition ||
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| Under Fire || Alex Grazier || Gene Hackman || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1984 || Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom || Mola Ram || Amrish Puri || 1987 Nippon TV edition ||
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| The NeverEnding Story || Falkor, Gmork|| Alan Oppenheimer || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1985 || Cocoon || Walter || Brian Dennehy || ||
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| Commando || Bennett || Vernon Wells || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1987 || The Running Man || Damon Killian || Richard Dawson || 1989 Fuji TV edition ||
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| No Way Out || Defense Secretary David Brice || rowspan="3" | Gene Hackman || TV Tokyo edition ||
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| 1988 || Mississippi Burning || Agent Rupert Anderson || 1992 TV Asahi edition ||
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| rowspan="4" | 1989 || The Package || Sgt. Johnny Gallagher || 1993 TBS edition ||
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| K-9 || Lyman || Kevin Tighe || 1993 TV Asahi edition ||
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| The Punisher || Jake Berkowitz || Louis Gossett Jr. || ||
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| Columbo || Lt. Columbo || Peter Falk || Season 8~ ||
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| rowspan="5" | 1990 || Dances with Wolves || Kicking Bird || Graham Greene || ||
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| Die Hard 2 || Trudeau || Fred Thompson || 1994 TV Asahi edition ||
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| Loose Cannons || MacArthur Stern || rowspan="4" | Gene Hackman || ||
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| Postcards from the Edge || Lowell Kolchek || ||
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| Narrow Margin || Robert Caulfield || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1991 || Class Action || Jedediah Tucker Ward || ||
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| Armour of God II: Operation Condor || Adolf || Aldo Sambrell || 1993 Fuji TV edition ||
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| The Silence of the Lambs || Hannibal Lecter || Anthony Hopkins || 1995 TV Asahi edition ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1992 || Alien 3 || Leonard Dillon || Charles S. Dutton || 1998 TV Asahi edition ||
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| Batman Returns || Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin || Danny DeVito || 1994 TV Asahi edition ||
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| Unforgiven || Little Bill Daggett || rowspan="2" | Gene Hackman || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1993 || Geronimo: An American Legend || Brig. Gen. George Crook || ||
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| This Boy's Life || Dwight Hansen || Robert De Niro || ||
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| 1994 || Wyatt Earp || Nicholas Earp || rowspan="3" | Gene Hackman || 1997 TV Tokyo edition ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1995 || Crimson Tide || Captain Frank Ramsey || ||
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| The Quick and the Dead || John Herod || ||
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| Die Hard with a Vengeance || Inspector Walter Cobb || Larry Bryggman || 1998 Fuji TV edition ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1996 || The Birdcage || Senator Kevin Keeley || rowspan="4" | Gene Hackman || 2000 Fuji TV edition ||
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| The Chamber || Sam Cayhall || ||
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| Extreme Measures || Dr. Lawrence Myrick || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 1997 || Absolute Power || President Alan Richmond || ||
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| Men in Black || Chief Zed || Rip Torn || 2001 Nippon TV edition ||
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| Cop Land || Ray Donlan || Harvey Keitel || 2000 Nippon TV edition ||
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| rowspan="2" | 1998 || Godzilla || Mayor Ebert || Michael Lerner || 2001 NTV edition ||
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| Enemy of the State || Edward "Brill" Lyle || rowspan="2" | Gene Hackman || 2003 Fuji TV edition ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2000 || Under Suspicion || Henry Hearst || ||
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| Gone in 60 Seconds || Detective Roland Castlebeck || Delroy Lindo || ||
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| rowspan="5" | 2001 || Evolution || Brigadier General Russell Woodman || Ted Levine || 2005 NTV edition ||
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| Behind Enemy Lines || Admiral Leslie McMahon Reigart || rowspan="3" | Gene Hackman || ||
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| Heist || Joe Moore || ||
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| The Royal Tenenbaums || Royal Tenenbaum || ||
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| Hannibal || rowspan="2" | Hannibal Lecter || rowspan="2" | Anthony Hopkins || ||
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| rowspan="5" | 2002 || Red Dragon || 2006 TV Tokyo edition ||
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| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers || Treebeard || John Rhys-Davies || ||
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| Men in Black II || Chief Zed || Rip Torn || 2005 TV Asahi edition ||
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| Undisputed || Mendy Ripstein || Peter Falk || ||
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| About Schmidt || Warren R. Schmidt || Jack Nicholson || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2003 || Runaway Jury || Rankin Fitch || Gene Hackman || ||
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| Big Fish || Old Edward Bloom || Albert Finney || ||
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| 2004 || Saw || rowspan="2" | Jigsaw || rowspan="2" | Tobin Bell || ||
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| rowspan="4" | 2005 || Saw II || ||
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| rowspan="2" | Batman Begins || William Earle || Rutger Hauer || ||
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| Carmine Falcone || Tom Wilkinson || 2007 Nippon TV edition ||
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| Brokeback Mountain || Joe Aguirre || Randy Quaid || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 2006 || The Departed || Frank Costello || Jack Nicholson || ||
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| ER || Richard Elliot || Armand Assante || ||
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| Saw III || rowspan="2" | Jigsaw || rowspan="2" | Tobin Bell || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 2007 || Saw IV || ||
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| Next || Irv || Peter Falk || ||
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| Sleuth || Andrew Wyke || Michael Caine || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2009 || The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus || Doctor Parnassus || Christopher Plummer || ||
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| The City of Your Final Destination || Adam Gund || Anthony Hopkins || ||
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| rowspan="3" | 2010 || Beginners || Hal Fields || Christopher Plummer || ||
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| Green Zone || Martin Brown || Brendan Gleeson || ||
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| Robin Hood || Sir Walter Loxley || Max von Sydow || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2012 || Silent Hill: Revelation || Leonard Wolf || Malcolm McDowell || ||
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| The Raven || Captain Charles Hamilton || rowspan="2" | Brendan Gleeson || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2013 || The Smurfs 2 || Victor Doyle || ||
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| Red 2 || Ivan Simanov || Brian Cox || ||
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Animation
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! Original Year !! Title !! Role !! Original actor !! class="unsortable" | Notes !! class="unsortable" | Refs
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| 1953 || Peter Pan || Indian Chief || Candy Candido || Buena Vista edition ||
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| 1981 || The Fox and the Hound || Adult Copper || Kurt Russell || ||
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| 1988 || Oliver and Company || Bill Sykes|| Robert Loggia|| ||
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| 1989 || The Little Mermaid || King Triton|| Kenneth Mars || Re-release edition ||
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| 1997 || Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin || Eeyore || Peter Cullen || ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2000 || The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea || King Triton || Kenneth Mars || ||
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| The Tigger Movie || rowspan="2" | Eeyore || rowspan="2" | Peter Cullen || ||
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| 2001-2003 || The Book of Pooh || ||
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| 2004 || Shark Tale || Don Feinberg || Peter Falk || ||
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| 2011 || Cars 2 || Mel Dorado || Patrick Walker || ||
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| 2013 || Planes || Skipper Riley || Stacy Keach || ||
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Japanese voiceover
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! Opening Year !! Title !! Role !! class="unsortable" | Notes !! class="unsortable" | Refs
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| 1983 || Peter Pan's Flight || Indian Chief || ||
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| 2000 || Pooh's Hunny Hunt || Eeyore || ||
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References
External links
<!-- *Tarō Ishida official profile
- Obituary - Japanese only -->