Kei Tomiyama

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Kei Tomiyama 富山敬

Birth name	Kunichika Tomiyama
Born	October 31, 1938 Anshan, Manchukuo
Died	September 25, 1995 (aged 56)
Occupation(s)	Seiyū

Kei Tomiyama (富山敬, Tomiyama Kei^?) (October 31, 1938 - September 25, 1995), born Kunichika Tomiyama (冨山邦親,, Tomiyama Kunichika^?), was a Japanese actor, seiyū, and narrator from Anshan. During his life, Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab.

Tomiyama is best known for his roles in Tiger Mask (Naoto Date/Tiger Mask), Space Battleship Yamato (Susumu Kodai), UFO Robo Grendizer (Duke Fleed/Daisuke Umon),the Time Bokan series (Narrator), GeGeGe no Kitaro 3rd Series (Nezumi-Otoko), Chibi Maruko-chan (Tomozō Sakura), and Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Yang Wen-li).

1 Life
2 Successors
3 Roles
- 3.1 Television animation
- 3.2 Dubbing roles
4 External links

[edit] Life

Tomiyama dropped out of Nihon University's art department. With his distinctively tender voice, Tomiyama would portray numerous kinds of roles during his career, ranging from heroic, comedic, young, and old. At 9:07 AM on September 25, 1995, Tomiyama suddenly died of pancreatic cancer in Shinjuku, Tokyo at the age of 56. In 2007, Tomiyama was posthumously awarded the Special Achievement Award of the first Seiyū Awards.

Tomiyama was a Scorpius, had a blood type of A, and enjoyed river fishing.

[edit] Successors

After Tomiyama's death, a number of seiyū took over his ongoing roles.

Takeshi Aono (Chibi Maruko-chan as Tomozō Sakura)
Nobuo Tobita (Chibi Maruko-chan as Shintarō Honami)
Tomohiro Nishimura (Soreike! Anpanman as SL Man)
Junpei Takiguchi (Time Bokan 2000 Kaitō Kiramekiman as the Narrator)
Toshihiko Nakajima (Time Bokan 2000 Kaitō Kiramekiman as Odatebuta)
Kōichi Yamadera (Space Battleship Yamato as Susumu Kodai, Idol Defense Force Hummingbird as President Yajima, Grendizer as Duke Fleed, Yatterman as the Narrator and Odatebuta)
Kenyū Horiuchi (Grendizer as Duke Fleed (Super Robot Wars))
Shinji Ogawa (Jurassic Park as Alan Grant (Sam Neill))
Yasunori Matsumoto (Bokan Desuyo as Ippatsuman and Odatebuta)
Hozumi Gōda (Legend of the Galactic Heroes as Yang Wen-li)
Shigeru Ushiyama (Batman: The Animated Series as Mad Hatter)
Yoshito Yasuhara (Agatha Christie's Poirot as Arthur Hastings (Hugh Fraser))
Kappei Yamaguchi (Looney Tunes as Bugs Bunny)
Chafūrin (Barbapapa as Barbapapa)
Naoki Tatsuta (Winnie-the-Pooh as Rabbit)
Tomokazu Seki (Area 88 as Micky Simon)

It should be noted that in Harlock Saga, in addition to replacing Tomiyama as Tochiro, Kōichi Yamadera also supplied the voice of Captain Harlock which up to that point was done by Makio Inoue who is still living.