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Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator
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Male
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17 November 1929(Hakodate, Japan)
Death:
5 March 2013(Chiba, Japan)
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Ritsumeikan University
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Gorō Naya (納谷悟朗, Naya Gorō, November 17, 1929 – March 5, 2013) was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He was a drop-out of the legal education division of Ritsumeikan University. He was connected to Theatre Echo. He was the older brother of actor and voice actor Rokurō Naya. He was the husband of actress and voice actress Kachiko Hino. He is best known for providing the voice of Inspector Kōichi Zenigata in the Lupin III franchise and for dubbing over the voices of actors Clark Gable, Charlton Heston and John Wayne in the Japanese-language editions of their films. He died on March 5, 2013, at age 83, due to chronic respiratory failure.
Live-action roles
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) — Kazuo Ōta
- Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost (2003) — Smart Brain Head