Gorō Naya

Gorō Naya
Born	November 17, 1929 (1929-11-17) (age 81) Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Actor, seiyū, narrator, theatre director
Years active	1951-present
Known for	Providing the voice of Inspector Kōichi Zenigata in the Lupin III franchise
Spouse	Kachiko Hino
Relatives	Rokurō Naya (younger brother)

Gorō Naya (納谷悟朗, Naya Gorō^?, born November 17, 1929) is a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He is a drop-out of the legal education division of Ritsumeikan University. He is connected to Theatre Echo. He is the older brother of actor and seiyū Rokurō Naya. He is the husband of actress and seiyū Kachiko Hino. He is best known for providing the voice of Inspector Kōichi Zenigata in the Lupin III franchise and for dubbing over the voices of actors Clark Gable, Charlton Heston and John Wayne in the Japanese-language editions of their films.

Notable voice roles

• Ghost Captain in Flying Phantom Ship
• Captain Juzo Okita in Space Battleship Yamato
• Leonard Dawson in Golgo 13
• Narrator in Casshan
• Merkatz in Legend of the Galactic Heroes
• Inspector Zenigata in Lupin III
• Lord Yupa in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• "Bosun" Kuramoto in Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
• Crocus in One Piece
• Ultraman Ace in series of same name
• Alien Emerald in Jumborg Ace
• The Great Leader in Kamen Rider series.
  • Narrator in Kamen Rider Amazon
  • Smart Brain Head in Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost

Dubbing roles

Film

• Charlton Heston
  • The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Asahi edition)
  • The Ten Commandments (Fuji TV edition)
  • The Big Country (TV Asahi edition)
  • Ben-Hur (1974 Fuji TV edition, 1981 TV Asahi edition)
  • 55 Days at Peking (Fuji TV edition)
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (TV Asahi edition)
  • Planet of the Apes (TBS edition, Fuji TV edition, LaserDisc edition)
  • Beneath the Planet of the Apes (TBS edition)
  • The Omega Man (TV Asahi edition)
  • Soylent Green (Fuji TV edition)
  • The Three Musketeers
  • The Four Musketeers
  • Earthquake (1981 TBS edition, 1986 TV Asahi edition)
  • Airport 1975 (Fuji TV edition)
  • Two-Minute Warning (1980 Nippon TV edition)
  • Midway (1979 TBS edition, 1981 Nippon TV edition, 1983 TV Asahi edition)
  • Gray Lady Down (TV Asahi edition)
  • Solar Crisis (1992 Nippon TV edition)
  • True Lies (Fuji TV edition, video edition)
  • In the Mouth of Madness
  • Any Given Sunday (Nippon TV edition)
  • Town & Country
  • Bowling for Columbine (2004 TV Tokyo edition)
• John Wayne
  • Stagecoach (1975 NET (now TV Asahi) edition)
  • She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (TV Asahi edition)
  • 3 Godfathers (TV Asahi edition)
  • The Searchers (1973 and 1979 TV Asahi editions)
  • Rio Bravo (1973 TV Asahi edition)
  • True Grit (TV Asahi edition)
  • Chisum (TV Asahi edition)
  • The Cowboys (TV Asahi edition)
  • Rooster Cogburn (TV Asahi edition)
  • The Shootist (TV Asahi edition)
• Clark Gable
  • The Misfits
  • Boom Town
  • Mogambo
• Batman (1992 TBS edition) (Carl Grissom)
• For a Few Dollars More (1973 TV Asahi edition) (Colonel Douglas Mortimer)
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Sarek)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Video and DVD edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Video and DVD edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Video and DVD edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
• "The Raccoons" (Schaeffer)

External links

• Gorō Naya at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Goro Naya at Theater Echo

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Name	Naya Goro
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Date of birth	November 17, 1929
Place of birth	Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan
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