JUNPEI TAKIGUCHI - Japanese Anime Voice Actor

 

 

Uranai Baba from Dragon Ball

Japanese voice actor Junpei Takiguchi died of stomach cancer in Japan on August 29, 2011. He was 80.  He was born Kohei Takiguchi in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, on April 17, 1931. He was a leading voice actor from the early 1960s, working on such anime productions as "Goku no Daiboken" (1967), "Mazinger Z" (1972), "Gatchaman" (1973), "Time Bokan" (1975), "Treasure Island" (1978), "Unico: Black Cloud White Feather" (1979), "Lupin the 3rd" (1977), "The Ultraman" (1979), "Tomb of Dracula" (1980), "Fumoon" (1980), "Space Cruiser Yamato III" (1980), "Lucy of the Southern Rainbows" (1982), "Urusei Yatsura" (1982), "Don Dracula" (1982), "Cat's Eye" (1983), "Fist of the North Star" (1986), "Dragon Ball" as Uranai Baba, Saichourou and others from 1987, "Genji Tsushin Agedama", "One Piece" (2001) as Commodore Nelson, "Lupin III: Alcatraz Commection" (2001), "Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier" (2002), ".hack//Roots" (2006) as Phyllo, "Princess Resurrection" (2007), "D. Gray-Man" (2006) as Millennium Earl, and "Yatterman" (2008) as Dokurobee. He also narrated the railroad travel program "Burari Tochu Gesha no Tabi" fron 1992 to 2011.