Takeshi Watabe
Acting
Born March 21, 1936, Kochi, Japan
was a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He usually played villains and performed the voices for many anime characters and tokusatsu villains. He is most famous for voicing Kaminari in Doraemon. He took over the ongoing roles of Shingo Kanemoto after his death. Other major roles included Inspector Takao Arizuka in the You're Under Arrest franchise, Naoyuki Kamikurata in Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution, Colonel John Kowen in Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, and Director Yachio Tokugawa in Strawberry Eggs. He also wrote an instructional book about voice acting, Seiyū Naritai. Watabe was being treated for lung cancer when he died of pneumonia at the age of 74.
Filmography
- 2009Armored Trooper VOTOMS: Pailsen Files The Movie — Chief Nehalco
- 2007Lupin the 3rd: The Elusiveness of the Fog — Obitaki (voice)
- Monster — Detective (voice)
- 2003Aquarian Age: The Movie — Naoyuki Kamikurata (voice)
- Requiem from the Darkness — Yahei (voice)
- Aquarian Age: Sign for Evolution — Naoyuki Kamikurata (voice)
- Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi — Tarou Imamiya (voice)
- Naruto — Gamabunta (voice)
- 6 Angels — Donn Canyon
- 2001Case Closed: Countdown to Heaven — Iwamatsu Ooki (voice)
- Rune Soldier — Ila's Father (voice)
- Salaryman Kintaro — Genzo Oshima (voice)
- 2001Zone of the Enders: Idolo — Barrows (voice)
- Android Kikaider — Shadow Knight (voice)
- Amazing Nurse Nanako — Griffith (voice)
- 1999Seijuu Sentai Gingaman vs Megaranger — Battobas (voice)
- 1999You're Under Arrest: The Motion Picture — Takao Arizuka (voice)
- Cowboy Bebop — Chessmaster Hex (voice)
- Seijuu Sentai Gingaman — Batbass (voice)
- Denji Sentai Megaranger — Buta Nejire
- 1997Gekisou Sentai Carranger vs Ohranger — Bara Mobile
- Detective Conan — Sewa Takanori (voice)
- Gekisou Sentai Carranger — UU Wurin (voice)
- Midori no Makibaō — Horie
- 1996Sanctuary — Norimoto Isaoka
- You're Under Arrest! — Arizuka Takao (Voice)
- 1995Juukou B-Fighter: The Movie — Gaohm (voice)
- Ninja Sentai Kakuranger — Shuten-Doji Brothers (Older) (voice), Shuten-Doji Brothers (voice)
- 1994Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: The Movie — Younger Hitotsume-Kozou (Voice)
- The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA — Chris (voice)
- Black Jack — Coronel Estefan (voice)
- 1993Ocean Waves — Principle (voice)
- Macross II: Lovers Again — Balser
- 1992Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon — Colonel John Kowen (voice)
- Super Sentai Zyuranger — Bookback (voice)
- 1992Tottoi — Jack Land (voice)
- 1991Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green — Colonel Gillan (voice)
- 1991Mobile Suit Gundam F91 — Cosmo Eigesse (voice)
- 1991Super Mario World: Mario & Yoshi's Adventure Land — Bowser (voice)
- Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman — Amoebalgin (voice)
- 1990City Hunter: Bay City Wars — Gomez (voice)
- 1990Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku — Panbûkin (voice)
- Mad Bull 34 — Henry (ep 2)
- 1990Sword for Truth — Tenkai (voice)
- Dragon Quest: Legend of the Hero Abel — Baramos (voice)
- 1989Kousoku Sentai Turboranger: The Movie — Ragorn (voice)
- 1989Wrath of the Ninja: The Yotoden Movie — Fudo no Ryoma
- Choujuu Sentai Liveman — Earthquake Brain (voice), Space Brain (voice)
- 1988Fist of the North Star - TV Compilation 2 - Six Sacred Fists of Nanto! Rei, the Star of Justice — Kiba Daio (voice)
- Little Lord Fauntleroy — Earl of Dorincourt
- Kamen Rider Black — Creation King
- Super Android Metalder — God Neros (voice)
- 1987Super Android Metalder: The Movie — Emperor God Neros (voice)
- 1986Fist of the North Star — Kiba Daiō (voice)
- 1986Love City — Aroi
- 1986M.D. Geist — Golem (voice)
- Silver Fang: The Shooting Star Gin — Takeda Gohei
- 1986The Scarred Man — Nick (eps 4-5) (voice)
- Wounded Man — Nik
- Blue Comet SPT Layzner — Admiral Gresco
- Dengeki Sentai Changeman — Gyodai (voice)
- 1985Dengeki Sentai Changeman: Shuttle Base! The Critical Moment! — Gyodai (voice)
- 1985Dengeki Sentai Changeman: The Movie — Gyodai (voice)
- 1985Twinkle Nora Rock Me! — Tōchino (voice)
- Armored Trooper VOTOMS — Nehalco (voice)
- 1983Crusher Joe — Nero (Voice)
- Kagaku Sentai Dynaman — Ten-Tailed Emperor Aton (voice)
- 1983Kagaku Sentai Dynaman: The Movie — Emperor Aton (voice)
- Dai Sentai Goggle-V — Octopus Mozoo (voice), Monkey Mozoo (voice), Starfish Mozoo (voice), Baku Mozoo (voice), Gecko Mozoo (voice), Antlion Mozoo (voice), Hyena Mozoo (voice), Condor Mozoo (voice), Lion Mozoo (voice), Skunk Mozoo (voice), Boar Mozoo (voice), Cactus Mozoo (voice), Horned Owl Mozoo (voice), Crab Mozoo (voice), Cheetah Mozoo (voice), Walrus Mozoo (voice), Scorpion Mozoo (voice), Worker
- 1982Dai Sentai Goggle-V: The Movie — Mole Mozoo (voice)
- Space Sheriff Gavan — Shako Monster (voice)
- Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan — Lightning Monger (voice), Hungry Monger (voice), Sea Snake Monger (voice)
- 1980Denshi Sentai Denziman: The Movie — Denzi Computer
- Battle Fever J — Buffalo Monster (voice), Doguu Monster (voice), Snail Monster (voice), Dinosaur Monster (voice), Hyde Monster (voice), Ancient Fish Monster (voice)
- 1979Battle Fever J: The Movie — Buffalo Monster (voice)
- Goliath the Super Fighter — 皇帝ジゴクダー
- Gowappā Faibu Gōdamu — Emperor Yokokuda (voice)
- 1976Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Red Death Match — Warship Mask (voice)
- Himitsu Sentai Gorenger — Silver Heat Mask (voice), Poison Fang Mask (voice), Warship Mask (voice)
- Pinocchio: The Series — Doro
- Decision — (voice)
- Kamen Rider — Creation King (voice)
- Tomorrow's Joe — Gondou Goromaki (voice)