was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator who worked for Haikyo (Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society).
Kato was born in Tokyo. He was noted for his role as Megatron and Galvatron from the 1st Transformers series until '. He also did the ADR for Takeshi KatÃ
Â's character in Akira Kurosawa's Ran after the original actor had become injured.
He died of bladder cancer at a hospital in Itabashi, Tokyo on January 17, 2014 at age 86.
Filmography
Television animation
Original video animation (OVA)
Animated films
Video games
Live-action films
- Ran (1985) â Koyata Hatakeyama (voice)
- Dororo (2007)
- Pussy Soup (2008) â William Thomas Jefferson II (voice)
Live-action television
Tokusatsu
Dubbing roles
Live-action
- Breakheart Pass, Nathan (Ben Johnson)
- Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Captain Black
- Coming to America, Cleo McDowell (John Amos)
- Death Warrant, Hawkins (Robert Guillaume)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Shepherd James "Shep" Walker (James Garner)
- Dune, Gurney Halleck (Patrick Stewart)
- For Your Eyes Only, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Peter Marinker)
- The Godfather (1976 NTV edition), Jack Woltz (John Marley)
- Gorky Park, Major Pribluda (Rikki Fulton)
- Home Alone, Marley (Roberts Blossom)
- Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Charrington (Cyril Cusack)
- Parenthood (1994 TV Tokyo edition), Frank Buckman (Jason Robards)
- The Passage, The Gypsy (Christopher Lee)
- Predator (1993 TV Asahi edition), Major General Homer Philips (R. G. Armstrong)
- Raw Deal (1991 TV Asahi edition), FBI Agent Harry Shannon (Darren McGavin)
- Red Dawn, Colonel Strelnikov (William Smith)
- Seven (1999 TV Tokyo/2001 TV Asahi editions), Police Captain (R. Lee Ermey)
- ', Odo (René Auberjonois)
- Tron, Master Control Program (David Warner)
- Zombi 2 (1982 TBS edition), Dr. David Menard (Richard Johnson)
Animation
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