Masaru Ikeda

Masaru Ikeda
Born	(1942-09-27) September 27, 1942 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1963-present

Masaru Ikeda (池田 勝, Ikeda Masaru, born September 27, 1942) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He is a graduate of the Tokyo Metro Fifth Commerce Senior High School and is currently affiliated with the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. He is best known for his roles in Yatterman (as the Yatter Machines) and Sakura Taisen (as Ikki Yoneda).

Filmography

Television animation

1970s

• Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 (1977) (Head of the Police Station)
• Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) (General Revil, Clink)
• The Ultraman (1979) (Erek)

1980s

• Space Runaway Ideon (1980) (Abadede Gurimade)
• Fang of the Sun Dougram (1981) (Rick Boyd)
• Miss Machiko (1981) (Machiko's Grandfather)
• Combat Mecha Xabungle (1982) (Bigman)
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim (1984) (Daba Hassā)
• Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God (1985) (Ross Igor)
• Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (Jamitov Hymem (first voice))
• City Hunter (1987) (Gāranto)

1990s

• Tekkaman Blade (1992) (Bernard O' Toole)
• Mahōjin Guru Guru (1994) (Uruga the Thirteenth)
• Sakura Wars (1996) (Ikki Yoneda)

2000s

• Alcatraz Connection (2001) (Max)
• Pokémon (2001) (The Mysterious Thief Gorōna)
• Episode 0: First Contact (2002) (Crawford)
• Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004) (Oparusen)
• Monster (2004) (Director Udo Haineman)
• Phoenix The Great King Tenji (2004) (Emperor Tenji))
• Death Note (2006) (Koreyoshi Kitamura)
• Kirarin Revolution (2006) (Ginzō Higashiyama)
• Darker than Black (2007) (Huang)

2010s

• Night Raid 1931 (2010) (Jiro Minami)

OVA

• Armored Trooper Votoms: The Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition (????) (Rīman)
• Domain of Murder (????) (Kyusaku Kogure)
• Heavy Metal L-Gaim (????) (Hassā)
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan (????) (Valphreze)
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (????) (Borodin, Commodore Bei)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (????) (Noein Peter)
• Record of Lodoss War (????) (Elmer)
• Sakura Wars series (????) (Ikki Yoneda)

Theatrical animation

• Dokidoki! PreCure the Movie: Mana's Getting Married!!? The Dress of Hope Tied to the Future! (????) (Clarinet)
• Dougram: Documentary of the Fang of the Sun (????) (Rick Boyd)
• Hamu Hamu Hamu Princess of Vision (????) (King Hamu Ja)
• The Heroic Legend of Arslan (????) (Valphreze)
• Metropolis (????) (President Boone)
• Mobile Suit Gundam II: Soldiers of Sorrow (????) (Boraskyniv)
• Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space (????) (Dren)
• Oliver & Company (????) (Fagin)
• Sakura Wars: The Movie (????) (Ikki Yoneda)

Video games

• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (????) (Doctor Nefarious Tropy)
• Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (????) (Doctor Nefarious Tropy, Lo-Lo the Air Elemental)
• Crash Team Racing (????) (Doctor Nefarious Tropy)
• Sakura Wars series (????) (Ikki Yoneda)
• Suikoden V (????) (Logg, Wabon, Levi, Jidan Guisu)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series (????) (Colonel Irving Lambert)
• Xenosaga series (????) (Helmer)

Live action dubbing

• Morgan Freeman
  • Glory (Sergeant Major John Rawlins)
  • The Shawshank Redemption (Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding)
  • Seven (1998 Fuji TV edition) (Detective Lt. William Somerset)
  • Chain Reaction (Dr. Paul Shannon)
  • The Sum of All Fears (Fuji TV edition) (William Cabot)
  • Dreamcatcher (Colonel Abraham Kurtz)
  • Levity (Miles Evans)
  • An Unfinished Life (Mitch Bradley)
  • Batman Begins (Lucius Fox)
  • 10 Items or Less (Him)
  • The Dark Knight (Lucius Fox)
  • Dolphin Tale (Dr. Cameron McCarthy)
  • The Dark Knight Rises (Lucius Fox)
• Danny Glover
  • Witness (1990 TV Asahi edition) (James McFee)
  • Lethal Weapon (1997 TV Asahi edition) (Roger Murtaugh)
  • Bat*21 (Capt. Bartholomew 'Bird-Dog' Clark)
  • Lethal Weapon 2 (1993 TV Asahi edition) (Roger Murtaugh)
  • Predator 2 (1994 TV Asahi edition) (Lieutenant Mike Harrigan)
  • Lethal Weapon 3 (1995 TV Asahi edition) (Roger Murtaugh)
  • Angels in the Outfield (George Knox)
  • Operation Dumbo Drop (Captain Sam Cahill)
  • Lethal Weapon 4 (2003 TV Asahi edition) (Roger Murtaugh)
  • Saw (Detective David Tapp)
  • The Shaggy Dog (Ken Hollister)
  • Saw V (Detective David Tapp)
• Samuel L. Jackson
  • Die Hard with a Vengeance (Zeus Carver)
  • Fluke (Rumbo)
  • Kiss of Death (Detective Calvin Hart)
  • Deep Blue Sea (Russell Franklin)
  • Rules of Engagement (Col. Terry L. Childers)
  • The Caveman's Valentine (Romulus Ledbetter)
  • Changing Lanes (Doyle Gipson)
  • Home of the Brave (LTC William "Will" Marsh)
• A Time to Kill (Software version) (Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey))
• A View to a Kill (TBS edition) (Bob Conley (Manning Redwood))
• Brazil (Archibald “Harry” Tuttle (Robert De Niro))
• Crossbones (Blackbeard (John Malkovich))
• Deep Rising (Television edition) (Simon Canton (Anthony Heald))
• Die Hard (Eddie (Dennis Hayden))
• Die Hard 2 (Captain Carmine Lorenzo (Dennis Franz))
• Dragonheart (King Einon)
• Eraser (TV edition) (US Marshal Robert Deguerin (James Caan))
• The Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr)
• Guilty by Suspicion (David Merrill (Robert De Niro))
• Midnight Run (TV edition) (Jack Walsh)
• Monk (Charles Kroger)
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (Ebenezer Scrooge)
• Ransom (Agent Lonnie Hawkins (Delroy Lindo))
• Robocop (Clarence Boddicker) (Kurtwood Smith) (VHS edition by: Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan lnc.)
• Smoke (Cyrus Cole)
• Stuart Little (TV edition) (Smokey)
• Sweet November (Chaz Watley (Jason Isaacs))
• Terminal Velocity (Ben Pinkwater)
• Thunderball (TBS/TV edition) (Felix Leiter)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (TV edition) (Jack Wade (Joe Don Baker))
• The Expendables (General Garza)
• The Sopranos (Tony Soprano)
• The Untouchables (TV edition) (Al Capone (Robert De Niro))

Animated dubbing

• Aladdin and the King of Thieves (Cassim)
• Batman: The Animated Series (Mr. Freeze)
• Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero (Mr. Freeze)
• Batman Beyond (Mister Freeze)
• Cars (Sheriff)
• Cars 2 (Sheriff)
• PB&J Otter (Cap'n Crane)
• The New Batman Adventures (Mr. Freeze)

External links

• Office profile
• Masaru Ikeda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia