Osamu Saka

Osamu Saka
Native name	阪 脩
Born	November 7, 1930 Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1950s–present
Agent	Aoni Production

Osamu Saka (阪 脩 Saka Osamu, born November 7, 1930 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese actor and voice actor who works for Aoni Production.

Filmography

Television animation

• Gigantor (1963) – Gavan
• Kamui the Ninja (1969) – Sukumi
• Space Battleship Yamato (1974) – Goer
• La Seine no Hoshi (1975) – Louis XVI
• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) – Admiral Takashi Hayase
• Dragon Ball (1987) – Grandpa Son Gohan
• Little Women (1987) – Frederick March (Father)
• Patlabor (1989) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (1991) - Clevin/Craven
• Sailor Moon (1992) – Sakiko's Father (ep. 20), Old Man Owner (ep. 71), Edwards (ep. 108)
• In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997) – Aaron
• Ehrgeiz (1997) – Balzak
• Cardcaptor Sakura (1998) – Masaki Amamiya (Sakura's great-grandfather)
• Chance Pop Session (2001) – Sho Kaibara
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2001) – Daisuke Aramaki
• Black Jack (2006) – Dr. Jotaro Honma
• Skull Man (2007) – Gōzō Kuroshio
• Blade (2011) – Noah Van Hellsing
• Sword Art Online (2013) – Leviathan
• Knights of Sidonia (2014) – Shinsuke Tanba
• Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014) – Charles Xavier / Professor X

Original video animation (OVA)

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988) – Kaiser Friedrich IV
• Ariel (1989) – Dr. Kishida
• Record of Lodoss War (1990) – King Fahn
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) – Marneri
• The Silent Service (1995) – Toshio Takegami
• Ninja Resurrection (1998) – Miyamoto Musashi
• Hellsing Ultimate 1 (2006) – Father Rinaldo
• My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ (2008) – John Smith

Theatrical animation

• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) – British Delegate
• Patlabor: The Movie (1989) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights (1991) (Shinto Paddo)
• Porco Rosso (1992) – Sky Bandit
• Ninja Scroll (1993) – Masked Samurai
• Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Memories (1995) – Kamata
• Slayers The Motion Picture (1995) – Rowdy Gabriev
• Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas (1998) (Captain Colt)
• Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004) (Ichi/Hachi (old))
• Steamboy (2004) – The Admiral

Video games

• Lloyd in Anubis: Zone of Enders
• Bankotsu in the Dead or Alive series
• Zera in Grandia II
• Kanbei Kuroda in Kessen
• Gatse Becker in Policenauts
• Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Code Talker in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Dr. Dimitri Yuriev in Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• John Cleese
  • A Fish Called Wanda – Archie Leach
  • Fierce Creatures – Rollo Lee
  • The Out-of-Towners – Mr. Mersault
  • The Pink Panther 2 – Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
• Anthony Hopkins
  • Juggernaut (TBS edition) – Superintendent John McLeod
  • Freejack – Ian McCandless
  • Hearts in Atlantis – Ted Brautigan
• Richard Crenna
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux – Colonel Denton Walters
  • First Blood (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Colonel Sam Trautman
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Colonel Samuel Trautman
• 12 Angry Men (1974 NTV edition) – Juror #5 (Jack Klugman)
• Along Came a Spider – Alex Cros (Morgan Freeman)
• The American President – Senator Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss)
• Batman – Carl Grissom (Jack Palance)
• The Bodyguard – Bill Devaney (Bill Cobbs)
• Broken Arrow – Pritchett (Bob Gunton)
• City of Angels – Nathaniel Messinger (Dennis Franz)
• Commando (1989 TV Asashi edition) – Gen. Franklin Kirby (James Olson)
• Darkness – Albert Rua (Giancarlo Giannini)
• Die Hard (1990 TV Asashi edition) – Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi (James Shigeta)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman – Loren Bray (Orson Bean)
• Dynasty – Blake Carrington (John Forsythe)
• The Fifth Element (1999 NTV edition) – General Munro (Brion James)
• Home Alone (1998 TV Asashi edition) – Marley (Roberts Blossom)
• JFK (1994 TV Asashi edition) – Jack Martin (Jack Lemmon)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Sonny Seiler (Jack Thompson)
• Mimic – Manny (Giancarlo Giannini)
• Miss Congeniality – Stan Fields (William Shatner)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous – Stan Fields (William Shatner)
• Moby Dick (1984 TBS edition) – Starbuck (Leo Genn)
• Paper Moon – Floyd (Burton Gilliam)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Charles Rodman (John Lithgow)
• seaQuest DSV – Captain Nathan Hale Bridger (Roy Scheider)
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Sio Bibble (Oliver Ford Davies)
• Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones – Sio Bibble (Oliver Ford Davies)
• The Terminator (1987 TV Asashi edition) – Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen)
• Wall Street – Lynch (James Karen)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – George (Richard Burton)
• X-Men – Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Ian McKellen)

Animation

• Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Preston B. Whitmore
• Batman: The Animated Series - Daniel Mockridge
• The Fox and the Hound – Chief
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero – Hawk
• Peter Pan – George Darling
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron – Tiger Conklin
• The Transformers – G1, Wheeljack, Skyfire, Beachcomber, Swindle, Kup, Metroplex, Alpha Trion, and others
• The Transformers: The Movie – Kup and Ramjet

References

External links

• Osamu Saka at Anime News Network's encyclopedia