was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator from KÃ
ÂtÃ
Â, Tokyo. Throughout his life, he was attached to TV Talent Center Tokyo, Yoshizawa Theatre School and then Mausu Promotion; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death. His real name, as well as his former stage name, was . He was best known for his roles in the Dragon Ball series (as Mister Satan and numerous other characters), the Gundam series (as Dozle Zabi and Bask Om), Ninja Scroll (as Gemma Himuro), Kinnikuman (as Robin Mask), Patlabor (as Hiromi Yamazaki), Star Fox (as General Pepper, Andross, and Pigma Dengar), Dead or Alive (as Bass Armstrong), Tekken (as Heihachi Mishima), and Soulcalibur (as Edge Master) â as well as his distinctive deep, booming voice.
Death
According to fellow voice actors, GÃ
Âri was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus a few years prior to his death and his vision was affected by retinal detachment as a result of the disease. He complained to coworkers, During an Anpanman recording session in late 2009, a depressed-sounding GÃ
Âri told his close friend and voice actor Kazuhiko Inoue, .
On January 17, 2010 at approximately 3:00 P.M., GÃ
Âri was found lying on his stomach with blood dripping from his wrists in the middle of a street in Nakano, Tokyo by a passerby, who then notified the police. Authorities from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Nakano station discovered a utility knife under his body as well as a suicide note (with the words and scrawled on it) addressed to his family in his pants pocket. GÃ
Âri's death was then ruled a suicide; he was three weeks short of his 58th birthday. His ongoing roles were replaced primarily by RyÃ
«zaburÃ
 Ã
Âtomo and the late UnshÃ
 Ishizuka.
Filmography
Television animation
1973
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
- Hokuto no Ken (Diamond (episode 3), Southern Cross executive (episode 21), Gertz (episode 33), Goerz (episode 33), Uighur the Warden (episodes 37-42), Cassandra prisoner (episode 43), Bull (episode 59), Daruka (episode 89)), Buzz Harn (114-116), Akashachi (123-138)
- ' (Robin Mask, Black Sumo)
- ' (Robin Mask)
- Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross (Claude Leon)
1985
1986
- ' (Umigame)
- Dragon Ball (Umigame, GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â, Colonel Yellow, Cymbal, Drum, Yaochun, InoshikachÃ
Â, Gora, Spectator, Additional Voices)
- ' (Moss the English Mastiff)
- ' (Robin Mask)
- ' (Robin Mask, Big Shinjo)
- KÃ
 Q ChÃ
Âji Ikkiman (Samson)
- Project A-ko (Mari)
- Saint Seiya (Heracles Seiza no Algethi)
1987
- ' (Umigame, Ghastel)
- Doraemon (Gian's Father)
1988
1989
- Dragon Ball Z (Umigame, GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â, King Enma, Mister Satan, King Cold, Vinegar, Porunga, Additional Voices)
- Dragon Quest (Dodonga)
- Jungle Book ShÃ
Ânen Mowgli (Hathi)
- Urotsukidoji (Chojin, Great Elder, Niki's Father)
- KidÃ
 Keisatsu Patlabor (Hiromi Yamazaki)
- Peter Pan no BÃ
Âken (Bill)
- ' (Goryu, Dinoking)
1990
1991
1992
1993
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
- ' (Marco Amoretti)
- ' (Vodka)
- Kinnikuman Nisei (Robin Mask (episodes 2âÂÂ4))
- ' (General Hotdog)
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2022
OVA
Theatrical animation
- Fist of the North Star (1986) (Uighur)
- ' (1988) (Umigame)
- ' (1989) (GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â)
- ' (1989) (Hiromi Yamazaki)
- ' (1990) (Misokattsun, Umigame)
- ' (1991) (Dorodabo)
- ' (1993) (GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â, Umigame)
- ' (1993) (Mister Satan)
- ' (1993) (Hiromi Yamazaki)
- ' (1994) (Mister Satan)
- ' (1994) (E. Honda)
- ' (1995)(Mister Satan)
- ' (1996) (Umigame)
- ' (2001) (Yokihiko Ã
Âta)
- ' (2002) (Hiromi Yamazaki)
- ' (2005) (Akuma)
- Redline (2010) (Gori-Rider) (Posthumous release)
Video games
- Star Gladiator () (Gamof Gohgry, Edward Bilstein)
- Red Earth () (Leo, Kongou, Valdoll)
- Star Fox 64 () (General Pepper, Andross, Pigma Dengar, various bosses)
- Tekken Tag Tournament () (Heihachi Mishima)
- Tekken Advance () (Heihachi Mishima)
- Pac-Man World 2 () (Spooky, Ghost Tree)
- Tekken 5 () (Heihachi Mishima)
- Capcom Fighting Evolution () (Leo)
- Death by Degrees () (Heihachi Mishima)
- ' () (Heihachi Mishima)
- Final Fantasy XII () (Gilgamesh)
- ' () (Tarkus)
- Tekken 7 () (Heihachi Mishima) (archive voice footage)
- ' (2004) (Colonel Orson Perrault)
- Ape Escape (series) (1999-2010) (Ukki Red)
- Baten Kaitos Origins (2006) (Wiseman)
- Daraku Tenshi â The Fallen Angels (1998) (Harry Ness)
- ' series (2002 - 2012) (Mister Satan)
- ' (2005) (Mister Satan, GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â)
- ' (2006) (Mister Satan, GyÃ
«-MaÃ
Â, Drum)
- ' (2007) (Mister Satan, King Cold)
- Drakengard (2003) (Manah, The Voice of God)
- Everybody's Golf 4 (2003) (Bronson)
- ' (2005) (Taira no Kiyomori)
- ' (2005) (Rikiozan)
- Jak II (Baron Praxis, Mog) (2003) (Japanese dub)
- The King of Fighters XII (2009) (Raiden)
- Kessen (2000) (Shimazu Yoshihiro)
- Quiz Magic Academy (2003) (Romanov)
- Sakura Wars (1996) (Yokihiko Ã
Âta)
- Shadow Hearts (2001) (Cardinal Albert Simon)
- ' (2004) (Cardinal Albert Simon)
- Shining Tears (2004) (Lazarus)
- Tales of Rebirth (2004) (Tohma)
- ' (2003) (Ganda)
- Time Crisis 4 (2006) (The Head of the V.S.S.E., First Lieutenant Jack Mathers)
- Wild Arms 5 (2006) (Elvis)
Narration
Tokusatsu
Television commercials
Dubbing roles
Live-action
Animation
References
External links