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Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI (seiyuu)

小林清志

Family name (in kanji): 小林

Given name (in kanji): 清志

Date of birth: 1933-01-11

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Date of death: 2022-07-30

Skills & Abilities:

English / Japanese translation

Website:

Kiyoshi Kobayashi @ Haikyo (Japanese)

Non-anime roles:

Alex in "Tengai Makyo: Fuun Kabuki den!!" (VG) (Japanese)

Britz in "Everybody's Golf Portable 2" (VG) (Japanese)

Britz in "Everybody's Golf Portable" (VG) (Japanese)

Captain Phillip Laidlaw in "DeepStar Six" (Live-action movie) (Japanese)

Cortes in "Road to El Dorado" (animated movie) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Bike Ou CM featuring Lupin" (TV commercial) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Esso with Lupin" (Gas Station TV commercial) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: Lost Treasure Under the Sea" (VG) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: Lupin is Dead, Zenigata is in Love" (VG) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: The Greatest Brain Battle in History" (VG) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: The Legacy of Columbus's Inheritance" (VG) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: The Shooting" (VG) (Japanese)

Daisuke Jigen in "Lupin III: Treasure of the Sorcerer King" (VG) (Japanese)

Duke of Dreux-Soubise in "Arsène Lupin (2004 Film)" (live-action movie) (Japanese)

Grand Priest in "EVE: The Lost One" (VG) (Japanese)

Hugh Darrow in "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" (VG) (Japanese)

In-Game Narrator in "BS The Legend of Zelda" (VG/Satellaview add-on for Super Famicom) (Japanese)

Ishikawa in "Ghost in the Shell" (VG) (Japanese)

Jack Osborne in "Gorky Park" (Movie) (Japanese)

Jerry in "Totally Spies!" (animated TV series) (Japanese)

Jubei Yagyu in "Samurai Shodown II" (VG) (Japanese)

Jukai in "Dororo" (VG) (Japanese)

Junesei Takamine in "Fatal Frame aka Project Zero" (VG) (Japanese)

Kanbe Tadokoro in "Tenchu: Return from Darkness" (VG) (Japanese)

Maj. Paul Hackett in "Extreme Prejudice" (Live-action movie) (Japanese)

Narrator in "'Music in Amber' -vi-" (drama CD) (Japanese)

Narrator in "Dororo" (VG) (Japanese)

Narrator in "Tenchu 3" (VG) (Japanese)

Narrator in "Tenchu 4" (VG) (Japanese)

Narrator in "Tenchu Fatal Shadows" (VG) (Japanese)

Narrator in "Tenchu: Stealth Assassins" (VG) (Japanese)

Nava in "Balto II: Wolf Quest" (animated movie) (Japanese)

Odin in "World of Final Fantasy" (VG) (Japanese)

Pope in "Tales of the Tempest" (VG) (Japanese)

Rick Dicker in "The Incredibles" (animated movie) (Japanese)

Rintaro Kido in "Chojin Barom 1" (TV series)

Rogles in "Valis I" (VG) (Japanese)

Roscoe in "Oliver & Company" (animated movie) (Japanese)

Splinter in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1" (live-action movie) (Japanese)

Witch-king of Angmar in "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (live-action movie) (Japanese)

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In Memoriam (Dec 31, 2022)

Lupin III's Long-Time Daisuke Jigen Voice Actor Kiyoshi Kobayashi Passes Away at 89 (Aug 8, 2022)

Voice Actor Kiyoshi Kobayashi Retires as Lupin III's Jigen After 52 Years (Sep 6, 2021)

BEM: Become Human Film's Promo Video Recaps BEM Anime Series (Sep 24, 2020)

In This Corner of the World, Kemono Friends Win Tokyo Anime Award Festival's Top Prizes (Feb 21, 2018)

Directors Tsutomu Shibayama, Gisaburo Sugii, More Win TAAF's Lifetime Achievement Award (Jan 22, 2018)

Ryunosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi Win 11th Annual Seiyū Awards (Mar 18, 2017)

Some of the 11th Annual Seiyū Awards Winners Announced (Feb 21, 2017)

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Ninja Scroll (TV) as Yasubei (ep 9)
Ninku (TV) as Reiku
Ninpu Kamui Gaiden (TV) as Tanba celestial
Noir (TV) as Beltonie

; Bertonie (ep 17)
Okama Report (OAV) as Keiko
Ōkami Shōnen Ken (TV)
Paradox Dimensional Romanesque Samy - missing'99 (OAV) as Emperor of Demons
Patalliro! Stardust Project (movie) as Daimajin
(The) Perrine Story (TV) as Baron Puraga
Powered Armor Dorvack (TV) as Col. Yōichi Takagi
Pro Golfer Saru (special); Dragon
Pro Golfer Saru (TV) as Shark Killer
Queen Emeraldas (OAV) as Captain (eps 1-2)
Riki-Oh 2: Horobi no Ko (OAV) as Shinkichi Fukao
Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae (TV) as Hyouma Amado (ep 1); person (ep 28)
Sakura Taisen: Le Nouveau Paris (OAV) as Masamichi Kitaoji (ep 1)
Sekai Meisaku Dōwa: Mori wa Ikiteiru (movie) as January
Shin Kyojin no Hoshi (TV) as Michael Brown
Shin Kyojin no Hoshi II (TV) as Shinigami Gossmann
Shin Tetsujin 28 (TV 1980) as Beruda (ep 14)
Space Adventure Cobra (TV) as Crystal Bowie (eps 3-8)
Speed Racer (US live-action movie) as Mr. Togokahn
Speed Racer (TV); Mr. Black (eps 1-2)
Sword for Truth (OAV) as Narrator
Takoyaki Mant-Man (TV) as King Baobao
Tantei Shōnen Kageman (TV) as Narration
Tatakae!! Rāmenman (movie) as Heise Mowang (Black Devil)
Tenkū Senki Shurato (TV) as Brahma
Thunderbirds 2086 (TV) as Gerald Simpson
Tiger Mask (TV) as Black V; Mr. Kamikaze; The Michiganian
Touch: Cross Road - Kaze no Yukue (special) as Beaumont
Uchū Patrol Hopper (TV) as Squad Leader Dalton/Daruton Taichou
Violence Jack 2 (OAV) as Jack
Violence Jack 3 (OAV) as Dante
Warau Salesman (TV); Tomoo Komiya (ep 99)
Wild 7 (OAV) as Sekai
Winds of Change (movie)
Wrath of the Ninja - The Yotoden Movie as Gen'yusai
Yōkai Ningen Bem (TV) as Bem
Yotoden (OAV) as Genyusai Kogure (ep 1)
Yūsei Kamen (TV) as Robert

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