Ryūsuke Ōbayashi

Japanese actor, narrator (b. 1946)

Actor
voice actor
narrator

Years active1966–presentAgent81 ProduceHeight171 cm (5 ft 7 in)

Ryūsuke Ōbayashi (大林隆介, Ōbayashi Ryūsuke, born March 13, 1946 in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. Some of his best known roles include Soun Tendo in Ranma ½ and Captain Kiichi Goto in Patlabor. He was formerly credited as Ryūnosuke Ōbayashi (大林　隆之介, Ōbayashi Ryūnosuke). He is employed by the talent management firm 81 Produce.

Filmography

Television animation

The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) (Exsedol Folmo)
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985) (Ben Wooder)
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (1986) (Rakan Dahkaran)
Patlabor (1989) (Captain Kiichi Gotō)
Ranma ½ (1989) (Sōun Tendō)
DNA² (1994) (Yokomori)
Macross 7 (1994) (Exsedol Folmo)
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (1996) (Principal Miura)
Rurouni Kenshin (1996) (Raijuta Isurugi)
Fancy Lala (1998) (Mystery Man)
Serial Experiments Lain (1998) (Yasuo Iwakura)
Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure (1999) (Ken Sanada)
To Heart (1999) (Gengoro Nagase)
Inuyasha (2001) (Daija (The False Water God))
Monster (2005) (Fritz Vardemann)
Hell Girl (2006) (Ryōsuke Sekine)
D.Gray-man (2008) (Malcolm C. Lvellie)
Hyouge Mono (2011) (Yamanoue Sōji)
WataMote (2013) (Narrator)
Buddy Complex (2014) (Alessandro Fermi)
Heavy Object (2015) (Flide)
Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2020) (Kaneki)

Original video animation (OVA)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1989) (Uranff)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1991) (Nilsson)
Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (1995) (Bif Standard)
Jungle de Ikou! (1997) (Fuyuhiko)

Theatrical animation

Techno Police 21C (1982) (Blader)
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984) (Exsedol 4970)
Patlabor: The Movie (1989) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002) (Captain Kiichi Goto)
Atagoal (2006) (Kara'agemaru)

Video games

Inuyasha (2001) (Daija)
Final Fantasy XII (2006) (Judge Ghis)
Macross Triangle Frontier (2011) (Exsedol Folmo)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (2012) (Takeo Kitagawa)

Drama CD

Soul Eater (2005) (Shinigami)

Dubbing

Live-action

The Amityville Horror (Chief of Police (Rich Komenich))
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil (Admiral Henry D (Glenn Morshower))
Black Book (General Käutner (Christian Berkel))
The Dark Knight (Gerard Stephens (Keith Szarabajka))
D-Tox (2006 TV Tokyo edition) (Jack Bennett (Stephen Lang))
From the Earth to the Moon (Alan Shepard (Ted Levine))^[1]
Happiest Season (Ted (Victor Garber))^[2]
Never Talk to Strangers (Cliff Raddison (Dennis Miller))^[3]
Restoration (King Charles II (Sam Neill))
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1975 NTV edition) (Richard Mays (James Fox))
The Unborn (Gordon Beldon (James Remar))^[4]