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Osamu KOBAYASHI (seiyuu)

小林修

Family name (in kanji): 小林

Given name (in kanji): 修

Date of birth: 1934-11-22

Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Date of death: 2011-06-28

Height: 168 cm

Hobbies:

Golf

Skills & Abilities:

Sword fighting

Website:

Osamu Kobayashi @ Dojinsha (Japanese)

Non-anime roles:

Colonel Becter in "Silent Bomber" (VG) (Japanese)

Commissioner James Gordon in "Batman: The Animated Series" (TV) (Japanese)

Mad-Eye Moody in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (live-action movie) (Japanese)

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV in "Dune" (1984 live action movie) (Japanese)

Rex in "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" (animated film) (Japanese)

Stinky Pete in "Toy Story 2" (animated movie) (Japanese)

The Emperor in "Kingdom Hearts II" (VG) (Japanese)

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Cast in:
(The) Alps Story: My Annette (TV) as Pierre
Angel Links (TV) as Chenho Li
Animation Kikō Marco Polo no Bōken (TV); Imam (ep 15)
B't X (TV) as Chaos
Be Forever Yamato (movie) as Osamu Yamanami
Black Jack (TV) as Shiitake (Karte 05)
Blue Blink (TV)
Call of the Wild: Howl, Buck (special) as John Thornton
Cat's Eye (TV) as Jirou Daigo (ep 36)
City Hunter (TV); Boss (ep 44)
Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi o Yobu! Yūhi no Kasukabe Boys (movie 12) as Chris
Cromartie High School (TV) as Doctor (ep 8)
Crusher Joe: The Movie as Bard
Crying Freeman (live-action movie) as Detective Netah (voice)
D.Gray-man (TV) as Sofia's Father (eps 33-34)
Decision (TV)
Dirty Pair: Project Eden (movie) as Chief Manager
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Windmasters (movie 1-24) as Yack
ESPer Mami (TV) as Eisuke Ken (ep 94)
Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato (movie) as Zwordar
Final Yamato (movie) as Captain Mizutani
Future Robot Daltanious (TV) as Gascon (eps 23-47)
Future War Year 198X (movie) as Secretary of State Girard
Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior? (special) as Commander
Garaga (movie) as Beita Yang
God Mars (TV) as Giron
Golgo 13 (TV) as Doherty (ep 19)
GoShogun (movie) as Sabarath
GoShogun (TV) as Sabarath (Savalas)
(The) Gutsy Frog (TV) as Zenbei Takara (2nd)
Hokkyoku no Mūshika Miishika (movie) as Muu
Hyouge Mono (TV) as Fujitaka Hosokawa (eps 6, 11)
Itadakiman (TV)
Kaibutsu-kun: Demon no Ken (movie) as Count Goriki
Kaibutsu-kun: Kaibutsu Land e no Shōtai (movie) as Count Goriki
Karate Master (TV) as Rikidōzan (eps 29-30)
Kimba the White Lion (TV 1/1965) as Beast (ep 9)
Kyojin no Hoshi (TV) as Hanagata's Father
Lady Georgie (TV) as Carlton (ep 5)
(The) Legend of the Galactic Heroes (OAV) as Otto von Braunschweig
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: A Hundred Billion Stars, A Hundred Billion Lights (OAV) as Otto von Braunschweig
Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (movie) as Prince Braunshweig
Lupin III: Part II (TV) as Heruga (ep 119); Marukane (ep 90)
Lupin III: Part III (TV) as Gyaranko (ep 6)
Lupin III: Secret Files (OAV) as Goemon Ishikawa XIII (pilot 1)
Lupin the 3rd (TV) as old man (ep 12); Stern (ep 3)
Lupin the 3rd: The Hemingway Papers (special) as President Carlos
Mad Bull 34 (OAV) as Narrator (ep 1)
Maken Liner-0011 Henshin Seyo!! (movie) as Narrator
Marine Boy (TV)
Mars (OAV) as Cabinet Secretary
Marvelous Melmo (TV) as Company President (1971; ep 11)
Master Keaton (TV) as Stephane (ep 18)
Miyuki (TV); Kazuto Wakamatsu (Masato's father)
Money Wars - Nerawareta Waterfront Keikaku (OAV) as Vice-Director Gen Daimon
New Jungle Emperor, Go Ahead Leo! (TV) as Big Alligator (ep 17); Bungori (ep 17)
Noir (TV) as Salvatore (ep 8)
Nozomi in the Sun (TV) as Daijiro
Ogon Bat (TV) as Ogon Bat
Ōkami Shōnen Ken (TV)
Panzer World Galient (OAV) as Azbes (eps 1-2); Mardal (ep 3)
Panzer World Galient (TV) as Azbes
Phoenix 2772 - Space Firebird (movie) as Boone
Powered Armor Dorvack (TV) as Borg (ep 14)
Princess Knight (TV) as X
Roots Search (OAV) as Marcus
Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae (TV) as Tanabe (ep 30); Tanabe Yasunoshin
Shin Tetsujin 28 (TV 1980) as Branch; Calsico (ep 17)
Shuten Doji (OAV) as Yonen Majari (ep 2)
Silent Möbius: The Motion Picture 2 as combined apparition
Soreike! Anpanman (TV) as Mr. Cherohiki
Space Battleship Yamato (movie) as Domel
Space Battleship Yamato Resurrection (movie) as Blue Noah Captain
Speed Racer X (TV) as Mr. Borbore
Star Blazers (TV) as Domel
Star Blazers: The Bolar Wars (TV) as Hikojirō Dan
Star Blazers: The Comet Empire (TV) as Zwordar V
Swiss Family Robinson (TV) as Ernest Robinson (eps 10-50)
Tekkonkinkreet (movie) as Takaramachi citizen
Tensai Bakabon (TV)
Tetsujin 28-go FX (TV) as Dr. Branch
Ulysses 31 (French TV) as Ulysses (NHK)
Umi no Triton (TV)
Ziggy Soreyuke! R&R Band (movie) as Hugo Stronburg
Zillion (TV) as Bernstein; Chief / Narration
Zillion: Burning Night (OAV)

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