1978Nominee
Best Performance
One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
Tōru Ōhira
Actor
Tokyo, Japan
September 24, 1929
Biography
Toru Ohira is a longstanding Japanese actor & voice actor. He's well known for many of his Japanese dub performances, voicing characters such as Darth Vader & Boss Nass from Star Wars, Homer Simpson from The Simpsons, Fred Flintstone from the Flintstones, Pete & Julius from various Mickey Mouse works, the Joker in Batman (1989), Clark Kent/Superman in Adventures of Superman (1938), Jor-El in Superman (1978), Waternoose from Monsters, Inc., the Mayor of Halloween Town from The Nightmare Before Christmas, and the First Ancestor from Mulan. He's also appeared in many Tokusatsu works, being the narrator for multiple Super Sentei & Metal Hero series, and Chief Kurata in Spectreman.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1980Winner
Best Performance
Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy
1978Nominee
Best Performance
Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Career Highlights
2010Highlight
Best Performance
One Piece: Strong World Episode 0
2004Highlight
Best Performance
Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey
Video
One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book
Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo
Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey