Osamu Saka

Osamu Saka
Native name	阪 脩
Born	(1930-11-07) November 7, 1930 Osaka, Japan
Occupation	Actor, voice actor
Years active	1950s–present
Agent	Aoni Production

Osamu Saka (阪 脩, Saka Osamu, born November 7, 1930 in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese actor and voice actor who works for Aoni Production.

He is most known for the roles of Wheeljack in the Japanese dub of (The Transformers), as well as Chief Seitaro Sakaki (Patlabor), Dr. Jotaro Honma (Black Jack), and Daisuke Aramaki (Ghost in the Shell).

Filmography

Television animation

• Gigantor (1963) – Gavan
• Kamui the Ninja (1969) – Sukumi
• Space Battleship Yamato (1974) – Goer
• La Seine no Hoshi (1975) – Louis XVI
• The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) – Admiral Takashi Hayase
• Dragon Ball (1987) – Grandpa Son Gohan
• Little Women (1987) – Frederick March (Father)
• Patlabor (1989) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (1991) - Clevin/Craven
• Sailor Moon (1992) – Sakiko's Father (ep. 20), Old Man Owner (ep. 71), Edwards (ep. 108)
• In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997) – Aaron
• Ehrgeiz (1997) – Balzak
• Cardcaptor Sakura (1998) – Masaki Amamiya (Sakura's great-grandfather)
• Chance Pop Session (2001) – Sho Kaibara
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2001) – Daisuke Aramaki
• Black Jack (2006) – Dr. Jotaro Honma
• Skull Man (2007) – Gōzō Kuroshio
• Blade (2011) – Noah Van Hellsing
• Sword Art Online (2013) – Leviathan
• Knights of Sidonia (2014) – Shinsuke Tanba
• Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers (2014) – Charles Xavier / Professor X

Original video animation (OVA)

• Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1988) – Kaiser Friedrich IV
• Ariel (1989) – Dr. Kishida
• Record of Lodoss War (1990) – King Fahn
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (1991) – Marneri
• The Silent Service (1995) – Toshio Takegami
• Ninja Resurrection (1998) – Miyamoto Musashi
• Hellsing Ultimate 1 (2006) – Father Rinaldo
• My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ (2008) – John Smith

Theater animation

• The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) – British Delegate
• Patlabor: The Movie (1989) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights (1991) (Shinto Paddo)
• Porco Rosso (1992) – Sky Bandit
• Ninja Scroll (1993) – Masked Samurai
• Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) – Seitaro Sakaki
• Memories (1995) – Kamata
• Slayers The Motion Picture (1995) – Rowdy Gabriev
• Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas (1998) (Captain Colt)
• Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004) (Ichi/Hachi (old))
• Steamboy (2004) – The Admiral

Video games

• Lloyd in Anubis: Zone of Enders
• Bankotsu in the Dead or Alive series
• Zera in Grandia II
• Kanbei Kuroda in Kessen
• Gatse Becker in Policenauts
• Colonel Sergei Gurlukovich in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• Code Talker in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Dr. Dimitri Yuriev in Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse

Dubbing roles

Live-action

• John Cleese
  • A Fish Called Wanda – Archie Leach
  • Fierce Creatures – Rollo Lee
  • The Out-of-Towners – Mr. Mersault
  • The Pink Panther 2 – Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus
• Anthony Hopkins
  • Juggernaut (TBS edition) – Superintendent John McLeod
  • Freejack – Ian McCandless
  • Hearts in Atlantis – Ted Brautigan
• Richard Crenna
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux – Colonel Denton Walters
  • First Blood (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Colonel Sam Trautman
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Colonel Samuel Trautman
• 12 Angry Men (1974 NTV edition) – Juror #5 (Jack Klugman)
• Along Came a Spider – Alex Cros (Morgan Freeman)
• The American President – Senator Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss)
• Batman – Carl Grissom (Jack Palance)
• The Bodyguard – Bill Devaney (Bill Cobbs)
• Broken Arrow – Pritchett (Bob Gunton)
• City of Angels – Nathaniel Messinger (Dennis Franz)
• Commando (1989 TV Asashi edition) – Gen. Franklin Kirby (James Olson)
• Darkness – Albert Rua (Giancarlo Giannini)
• Die Hard (1990 TV Asashi edition) – Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi (James Shigeta)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman – Loren Bray (Orson Bean)
• Dynasty – Blake Carrington (John Forsythe)
• The Fifth Element (1999 NTV edition) – General Munro (Brion James)
• Home Alone (1998 TV Asashi edition) – Marley (Roberts Blossom)
• JFK (1994 TV Asashi edition) – Jack Martin (Jack Lemmon)
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – Sonny Seiler (Jack Thompson)
• Mimic – Manny (Giancarlo Giannini)
• Miss Congeniality – Stan Fields (William Shatner)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous – Stan Fields (William Shatner)
• Moby Dick (1984 TBS edition) – Starbuck (Leo Genn)
• Paper Moon – Floyd (Burton Gilliam)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes – Charles Rodman (John Lithgow)
• seaQuest DSV – Captain Nathan Hale Bridger (Roy Scheider)
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace – Sio Bibble (Oliver Ford Davies)
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones – Sio Bibble (Oliver Ford Davies)
• The Terminator (1987 TV Asashi edition) – Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1993 Fuji TV edition) – Dr. Silberman (Earl Boen)
• Wall Street – Lynch (James Karen)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – George (Richard Burton)
• X-Men – Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Ian McKellen)

Animation

• Atlantis: The Lost Empire – Preston B. Whitmore
• The Fox and the Hound – Chief
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero – Hawk
• Peter Pan – George Darling
• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron – Tiger Conklin
• The Transformers – G1, Wheeljack, Skyfire, Beachcomber, Swindle, Kup, Metroplex, Alpha Trion, and others
• The Transformers: The Movie – Kup and Ramjet

External links

• Osamu Saka at Anime News Network's encyclopedia