Kei Tomiyama


Kunichika Tomiyama, better known by his stage name Kei Tomiyama, was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Anshan, Manchukuo. He was also declared the Mel Blanc of Japanese voice acting. During his life, Tomiyama was affiliated with Aoni Production and Production Baobab.
Tomiyama is best known for his roles in Tiger Mask, Space Battleship Yamato, UFO Robo Grendizer, the Time Bokan series, GeGeGe no Kitaro 3rd Series, Chibi Maruko-chan, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

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 Seiyu Awards.

Successors

After Tomiyama's death, a number of voice actors took over his ongoing roles.
In the 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.

Filmography

Television animation

;1960s
;1970s
;1980s
;1990s

Live-action