Takayuki Sugō

Takayuki Sugō
菅生 隆之
Born	(1952-08-01) August 1, 1952 (age 69) Iioka, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actor voice actor
Years active	1970–present
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)

Takayuki Sugō (菅生 隆之, Sugō Takayuki, born August 1, 1952) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He is widely noted for portraying paternal figures or mentors to protagonists in various anime and audio productions. He is also the famous official Japanese dubbing roles for Jean Reno, Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Harris and many more.

Filmography[]

Anime television series[]

1994

• Yu Yu Hakusho – Raizen

1996

• Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini – Jean Piere

1998

• Master Keaton – Leon Papas

1999

• Detective Conan – Yasuyuki Murakawa

2000

• Niea Under 7 – Nenji Yoshioka

2002

• Heat Guy J – J
• Princess Tutu – The Raven

2003

• Gad Guard – Drugef

2004

• Naruto – First Hokage: Hashirama Senju
• Samurai Champloo – Kagetoki Kariya
• Burst Angel – Leo Jinno
• Bleach – Zangetsu
• Monster – Dr. Gielen

2005

• Hell Girl – Wanyūdō
• Shakugan no Shana – Tenmoku Ikko
• Honey & Clover – Tokudaiji
• Full Metal Panic! – Mayer Amit
• Rockman.EXE Beast – Kunio Kurogane

2006

• Glass Fleet – Pope Goruna
• Hell Girl: Two Mirrors – Wanyūdō
• Buso Renkin – Captain
• Blood+ – Gray
• Yōkai Ningen Bem – Zojimofu

2007

• Hero Tales – Sōei
• D.Gray-man – Devon
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann – Narration, Simon (Ep. 27)
• Baccano! – Goose Parkins
• Bokurano: Ours – Hasegawa
• Detective Conan – Tatsuhito Funamoto
• Rocket Girls – Isao Nasuda

2008

• Gogol 13 – Duchess
• Hell Girl: Three Vessels – Wanyūdō
• Zettai Karen Children – Colonel J.D. Grisham
• Birdy the Mighty: Decode – Shōri Nakasugi
• Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk – Gramps
• Bihada Ichizoku – SMK
• Blade of the Immortal – Habaki Kagimura
• Lupin the Third: Sweet Lost Night – Gordon

2009

• Guin Saga – Urado
• Slayers Evolution-R – Shuryō
• Natsume's Book of Friends – Yōkai
• Birdy the Mighty: Decode 2 – Dax
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's – José
• Modern Magic Made Simple – Carl

2010

• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's – Old Aporia
• One Piece – Shiliew

2011

• Gintama – Doromizu Jirochō
• Gosick – Marquis Albert de Blois
• Shakugan no Shana – Tenmoku Ikko
• Natsume's Book of Friends – Yōkai

2012

• Zetman – Sayama
• Tari Tari – President
• Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero
• One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Adventure of Hand Island

2013

• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 – Jūzō Okita
• Gingitsune – Jicchan
• Kotoura-san – Gantetsu Ishiyama
• Samurai Flamenco – Daisuke Hazama

2014

• Naruto: Shippuden – First Hokage: Hashirama Senju
• Space Dandy – L'Delise (Ep. 18)
• Psycho-Pass 2 – Yohei Masuzaki (Ep. 7-9)
• Tokyo Ghoul – Yoshimura^[1]

2015

• Tokyo Ghoul √A – Yoshimura
• Aldnoah.Zero 2 – Rayregalia Vers Rayvers (Ep. 23)
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan – Andragoras III

2016

• Bungo Stray Dogs – Herman Melville

2017

• Hell Girl: The Fourth Twilight – Wanyūdo
• Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid – Tohru's father (ep. 7, 13)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS - Dr. Kogami
• Princess Principal – L (eps. 1 - 7, ), Narrator (ep. 1, 3)

2018

• Golden Kamuy – Nagakura Shinpachi

2019

• Carole & Tuesday – Schwartz^[2]
• Vinland Saga – Sweyn
• The Rising of the Shield Hero – High Priest Biscas T. Balmus

2020

• Dragon's Dogma – Dragon

2021

• Getter Robo Arc – Professor Saotome

Original video animation (OVA)[]

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (2000) – Fang Tchewling
• SaiKano: Another Love Song (2005) – Wada
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (2010) – Cardeas Vist
• Shiki (2010) – Iwao Maeda
• One Off (2012) – Motoyoshi

Theatrical animation[]

• 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1999) – Pietro
• Vexille (2007) – Captain Borg
• Berserk: Golden Age Arc II: The Battle for Doldrey (2012) – Boscone
• Uchū Senkan Yamato 2199: Hoshi-Meguru Hakobune (2014) – Jūzō Okita^[3]
• The Empire of Corpses (2015) – The One

Video games[]

• Onimusha 3: Demon Siege (2004) – Jacques Blanc
• Final Fantasy XII (2006) – Reddas
• Tales of Zestiria (2015) – Heldarf
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) – Baseplate
• Bleach: Brave Souls (2015) - Zangetsu, Yhwach
• Tokyo Xanadu (2015) – Sōsuke Kokonoe
• Nioh (2017) – Tenkai
• Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (2019) - Mihaly A. Shilage / Mister X
• Dance Dance Revolution A20 (2019) – Afro
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (2019) – Narrator

Television drama[]

• Taiyō ni Hoero! (1981, 82) (Murakami, Miura)
• Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000) (Konishi Yukinaga)
• Hell Girl (2006)

Tokusatsu[]

• Special Rescue Exceedraft (1992) - Eiichiro Sorihashi (actor) (ep. 35)
• Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (2013) – Hundred-Faced High Priest Chaos (eps. 1 - 7, 9 - 11, 14 - 18, 21 - 23, 25 - 30, 34 - 37, 40 - 42, 44 - 48)
  • Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music (2013) – Hundred-Faced High Priest Chaos
  • Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell Our Eternal Friends (2014) – Hundred-Faced High Priest Chaos
  • Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Returns: Hundred Years After (2014) – Thousand-Faced High Priest Gaos

Dubbing[]

Live-action[]

• Jean Reno
  • Léon: The Professional (1996 TV Asahi edition) – Léon
  • Godzilla – Philippe Roaché
  • The Crimson Rivers – Pierre Niemans
  • Just Visiting – Count Thibault of Malfete
  • Wasabi (2004 TV Tokyo edition) – Hubert Fiorentini
  • Rollerball (2005 TV Tokyo edition) – Alexi Petrovich
  • Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse – Pierre Niemans^[4]
  • L'Enquête Corse – Ange Leoni
  • Empire of the Wolves – Jean-Louis Schiffer
  • The Tiger and the Snow – Fuad
  • The Da Vinci Code – Bezu Fache
  • Flyboys – Capt. Thenault^[5]
  • The Pink Panther – Gendarme Gilbert Ponton^[6]
  • 22 Bullets – Charly Matteï
  • Armored – Quinn^[7]
  • The Pink Panther 2 – Gendarme Gilbert Ponton
  • Alex Cross – Giles Mercier
  • The Chef – Alexandre Vauclair^[8]
  • Jo – Joseph "Jo" St-Clair
  • The Squad – Serge Buren
  • Mes trésors – Patrick
  • The Adventurers – Detective Pierre Bissette^[9]
  • Cold Blood – Henry^[10]
• Tommy Lee Jones
  • Under Siege – William "Bill" Strannix^[11]
  • The Fugitive – Samuel Gerard
  • Heaven & Earth – Steve Butler
  • House of Cards – Jake Beerlander
  • Blown Away (1999 TV Asahi edition) – Ryan Gaerity
  • Blue Sky – Hank Marshall
  • The Client (1997 TV Asahi edition) – "Reverend" Roy Foltrigg
  • Batman Forever – Two-Face^[12]
  • Volcano – Mike Roark
  • Men in Black (2001 NTV edition) – Kevin Brown/Agent K
  • U.S. Marshals – Samuel Gerard
  • Double Jeopardy (2003 TV Asahi edition) – Travis Lehman
  • Space Cowboys (2004 NTV edition) – William "Hawk" Hawkins
  • Men in Black II (2005 TV Asahi edition) – Kevin Brown/Agent K
  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Pete Perkins
  • No Country for Old Men – Ed Tom Bell^[13]
  • Hope Springs – Arnold Soames^[14]
  • Lincoln – Thaddeus Stevens
  • Mechanic: Resurrection – Max Adams^[15]
  • Criminal – Dr. Micah Franks^[16]
  • Shock and Awe – Joe Galloway^[17]
  • Ad Astra – H. Clifford McBride^[18]
• Ed Harris
  • Needful Things – Sheriff Alan J. Pangborn
  • Cleaner – Eddie Lorenzo^[19]
  • Gone Baby Gone – Detective Sergeant Remy Bressant^[20]
  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets – Mitch Wilkinson^[21]
  • The Way Back – Mr. Smith
  • Man on a Ledge – David "Dave" Englander
  • Pain & Gain – Det. Ed Du Bois, III^[22]
  • Snowpiercer – Minister Wilford
  • Cymbeline – Cymbeline
  • Run All Night – Shawn Maguire^[23]
  • Mother! – man^[24]
  • Geostorm – U.S. Secretary of State Leonard Dekkom^[25]
  • Kodachrome – Benjamin Asher Ryder
• Hugo Weaving
  • The Lord of the Rings film trilogy – Elrond
  • V for Vendetta – V
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – Elrond
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – Elrond
• Jeff Bridges
  • The Big Lebowski (Blu-Ray edition) – Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski
  • Seventh Son – John Gregory
  • Kingsman: The Golden Circle – Champagne "Champ"
  • Bad Times at the El Royale – Father Daniel Flynn / Donald "Doc" O'Reilly^[26]
• 24 – Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida)
• 88 Minutes – Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino)^[27]
• The Admiral: Roaring Currents – Kurushima Michifusa (Ryu Seung-ryong)^[28]
• All Is True – William Shakespeare (Kenneth Branagh)^[29]
• The Amazing Spider-Man – George Stacy (Denis Leary)^[30]
• American Dreamz – President Joseph Staton (Dennis Quaid)^[31]
• And Then There Were None – General John MacArthur (Sam Neill)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain – the voice of Enzo (Kevin Costner)^[32]
• Assassin's Creed: Lineage – Rodrigo Borgia (Manuel Tadros)
• The A-Team – John "Hannibal" Smith (Liam Neeson)^[33]
• Avatar – Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang)^[34]
• Bad Company – Adrik Vas (Peter Stormare)^[35]
• Battle of the Sexes – Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman)^[36]
• Baywatch – The Mentor (David Hasselhoff)^[37]
• Below – Lieutenant Brice (Bruce Greenwood)^[38]
• Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich – General Emil F. Reinhardt (Stephen Lang)^[39]
• Black Dog – Jack Crews (Patrick Swayze)
• Black Dog (2002 NTV edition) – ATF Agent McClaren (Stephen Tobolowsky)
• Black Widow – Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt)^[40]
• Blood Diamond – Colonel Coetzee (Arnold Vosloo)^[41]
• Blue Bloods – Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck)
• The Body - Jaime Peña (José Coronado)
• The Bourne Identity – Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper)^[42]
• Boy Erased – Marshall Eamons (Russell Crowe)^[43]
• Better Call Saul – Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks)^[44]
• Chef – Riva (Dustin Hoffman)
• Clear and Present Danger – Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford)^[45]
• Concussion – Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin)^[46]
• The Contract – Frank Carden (Morgan Freeman)^[47]
• Daddy's Home 2 – Kurt Mayron (Mel Gibson)^[48]
• Dae Jang Geum – Jung-jong (Im Ho)
• Dead Again – Mike Church / Roman Strauss (Kenneth Branagh)^[49]
• Death Proof – Stuntman Mike McKay (Kurt Russell)^[50]
• Deep Rising (2000 TV Asahi edition) – John Finnegan (Treat Williams)
• Denial – Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson)^[51]
• Desperate Housewives – Karl Mayer (Richard Burgi)
• Divergent and The Divergent Series: Insurgent – Marcus Eaton (Ray Stevenson)^[52][53]
• Domino – Ed Moseby (Mickey Rourke)^[54]
• El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie – Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks)^[55]
• Elizabeth I – Earl of Leicester (Jeremy Irons)^[56]
• Escape from L.A. – Pipeline (Peter Fonda)^[57]
• Evolution – General Russell Woodman (Ted Levine)^[58]
• Evolution (2005 NTV edition) – Governor Lewis (Dan Aykroyd)^[59]
• The Exorcist: Director's Cut – Father Damien Karras (Jason Miller)^[60]
• F9 – Buddy (Michael Rooker)^[61]
• Finding Forrester – Crawford (F. Murray Abraham)^[62]
• Five Fingers – Ahmat (Laurence Fishburne)^[63]
• Flesh and Bone – Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid)^[64]
• The Glass House – Terrence Glass (Stellan Skarsgård)^[65]
• The Godfather Saga – Tom Hagan (Robert Duvall)
• Gods of Egypt – Ra (Geoffrey Rush)
• Grudge Match – Billy "The Kid" McDonnen (Robert De Niro)^[66]
• Hardwired – Hal (Michael Ironside)^[67]
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – Aberforth Dumbledore (Ciarán Hinds)^[68]
• The Hateful Eight – John Ruth (Kurt Russell)^[69]
• Here and Now – Greg Boatwright (Tim Robbins)^[70]
• I Love You Phillip Morris – Lindholm (Antoni Corone)^[71]
• The Incredible Hulk – Thunderbolt Ross (William Hurt)^[72]
• Iron Will – Harry Kingsley (Kevin Spacey)^[73]
• Joker – Thomas Wayne (Brett Cullen)^[74]
• Killers – Mr. Kornfeldt (Tom Selleck)^[75]
• The Kingdom – Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper)^[76]
• L.A. Confidential – Officer Wendell "Bud" White (Russell Crowe)^[77]
• Leonardo – Andrea del Verrocchio (Giancarlo Giannini)^[78]
• Lions for Lambs – Professor Stephen Malley (Robert Redford)^[79]
• The Matrix Reloaded (2006 Fuji TV edition) – Commander Lock (Harry Lennix)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2007 Fuji TV edition) – Commander Lock (Harry Lennix)
• Mercury Rising (2001 TV Asahi edition) – Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin)
• Merlin – Gaius (Anthony Head)
• Midway – William "Bull" Halsey (Dennis Quaid)^[80]
• Motherless Brooklyn – Frank Minna (Bruce Willis)^[81]
• Mr. Deeds – Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher)^[82]
• No Good Deed – Tyrone Abernathy (Stellan Skarsgård)^[83]
• Nurse Betty – Charlie (Morgan Freeman)^[84]
• October Sky – John Hickam (Chris Cooper)^[85]
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico – Billy Chambers (Mickey Rourke)^[86]
• Only You – Giovanni (Joaquim de Almeida)^[87]
• The Patriot – Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson)
• Patriot Games – Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford)^[88]
• Predator (1993 TV Asahi edition) – Dillon (Carl Weathers)
• Pulp Fiction – Captain Koons (Christopher Walken)
• The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – Guy Chambers (Richard Gere)^[89]
• Selma – Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson)^[90]
• Shaolin Soccer – Hung (Patrick Tse)
• Sliver – Jack Landsford (Tom Berenger)^[91]
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Gort (Ray Winstone)^[92]
• Sommersby – John "Jack" Sommersby (Richard Gere)^[93]
• Stealth – Captain George Cummings (Sam Shepard)^[94]
• Superman (2014 WOWOW edition) – Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman)^[95]
• Tin Cup – David Simms (Don Johnson)^[96]
• Transporter 3 – Leonid Tomilenko (Jeroen Krabbé)^[97]
• Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero – Roger Schechter (Jeffrey Combs)
• Unfaithful (2006 TV Asahi edition) – Edward Sumner (Richard Gere)^[98]
• Valkyrie – Friedrich Fromm (Tom Wilkinson)^[99]
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – Bretton James (Josh Brolin)^[100]
• War Horse – Ted Narracott (Peter Mullan)^[101]
• White House Farm – DS Stan Jones (Mark Addy)^[102]
• Your Honor – Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston)^[103]

Animation[]

• Capture the Flag – Frank Goldwing^[104]
• Incredibles 2 – Rick Dicker^[105]
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted – Vitaly
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack – Captain K'nuckles
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – Cranky Doodle Donkey
• Star Wars: Clone Wars – General Grievous
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Master Splinter
• The Lego Batman Movie – Alfred Pennyworth
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part – Alfred Pennyworth, Dolphin Clock^[106]
• The Wild – Kazar

References[]

External links[]

• Official agency profile (in Japanese)
• Takayuki Sugō at Ryu's Seiyuu Infos
• Takayuki Sugō at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Takayuki Sugō at IMDb
• Takayuki Sugō at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)