Akira Kume

Akira Kume
Born	February 8, 1924 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1947–present
Children	Daisaku Kume

Akira Kume (久米 明 Kume Akira, born February 8, 1924 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Filmography

Films

• The Insect Woman (1963) (Investigator)
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) (First Secretary Katsuzo Okumura)
• Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (1974) (Watabe)
• Fumō Chitai (1976) (Cabinet minister)
• Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) (Mayor of Tatsuno)
• The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) (Hyōgo)

Television dramas

• Key Hunter (1968) (Killer Ueno)
• Taiyō ni Hoero! (1978–1979) (Soda)
• Kinpachi-sensei (1981) (Ōyama)
• Shadow Warriors (1981) (Tokugawa Mitsukuni)
• Ōoka Echizen (1983) (Old man)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) (Katagiri Katsumoto)
• Chōshichirō Edo Nikki (1983) (Amemiya)
• Edo o Kiru (1987) (Matsudaira Izuminokami)
• Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (1995) (Ōkubo Tadatomo)

Stage

• Death of a Salesman
• The Lower Depths
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Tempest

Television animation

• Botchan (1980) (Narrator)
• In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992) (Narrator)
• Phoenix (2004) (Narrator)

Anime Films

• Cobra (1982) (Toporo)
• Crusher Joe (1983) (Dan)
• Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding (1999) (Shizuka's Papa)

Video games

• The Legend of Dragoon (1999) (Dewey)

Dubbing

Live-action

• Humphrey Bogart
  • Angels with Dirty Faces (Jim Frazier)
  • The Roaring Twenties (George Hally)
  • The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
  • Casablanca (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Rick Blaine)
  • Action in the North Atlantic (First Officer Joe Rossi)
  • Sahara (Sergeant Joe Gunn)
  • To Have and Have Not (Harry "Steve" Morgan)
  • The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe)
  • Key Largo (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Maj. Frank McCloud)
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Fred C. Dobbs)
  • The African Queen (Charlie Allnut)
  • The Barefoot Contessa (1966 TV Asahi and 1979 TV Tokyo editions) (Harry Dawes)
  • The Caine Mutiny (1979 Fuji TV edition) (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg)
  • Sabrina (Linus Larrabee)
  • The Desperate Hours (NHK edition (Glenn Griffin))
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1976 Fuji TV edition) (Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness))
• The Changeling (John Russell (George C. Scott))
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2008 NTV edition) (Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee))
• Cinema Paradiso (Alfredo (Philippe Noiret))
• Clash of the Titans (1985 TV Asahi edition) (Ammon (Burgess Meredith)
• Julia (1980 Fuji TV edition) (Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards))
• Sherlock Holmes (Mycroft Holmes (Charles Gray))
• Star Wars (1983 NTV edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness))

Animated Films

• Fun and Fancy Free (Pony Canyon edition (Edgar Bergen))
• The Little Mermaid (King Triton)
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Pony Canyon edition (Narrator))
• Song of the South (Pony Canyon edition (Uncle Remus))

Television Animation

• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (Pastmaster)

Honours

• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1992)
• Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1997)

External links

• Akira Kume at the Internet Movie Database
• Akira Kume at Anime News Network's encyclopedia