Born on May 10, 1931, Ichirō Nagai was active as a seiyuu since the 1960s. He has voiced a wide variety of older male characters, goiung from the Evil Old Folks to the Dirty Old Man types, and has been known to use the Kansai Regional Accent.
Sadly, on January 27, 2014, Nagai succumed to a heart attack
, aged 83, much to the sadness of his fellow seiyuus. Rest in peace, may you...
Roles:
- Alphonse in Devilman
- Professor Amamori in Queen Millennia
- Dr. Amano in The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird
- Baseball Mask in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger (with a Role Reprise in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger the Movie: The Flying Ghost Ship)
- Buggler in Bomberman World
- Chan Chanko/006 in Cyborg 009 (1968 series)
- Cherry in Urusei Yatsura
- Chitoku Hoshi in Air
- Cid in Final Fantasy IV DS
- Dub voice of Costanza in Seinfeld
- Crux Dogatie in SD Gundam G Generation F and Super Robot Wars Alpha 2 (succeeded by Mugihito as of G Generation Spirits)
- D's Left Hand and Narrator in Vampire Hunter D
- Dawson in The Great Mouse Detective
- Dr. Daylon and Kanbe in the Tengai Makyou series
- Degwin Zabi, Narrator & numerous other roles in Mobile Suit Gundam
- Dub voice of Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies
- Flip in Maya the Bee
- General in Castle in the Sky
- General Hadias in Great Mazinger
- Gidan Nickerd in Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team
- Giuseppe in Wicked City
- Happosai in Ranma ½
- Heizaemon Kamikita and Geezzer in Zambot 3
- Isaac Netero in Hunter × Hunter (2011 series, succeeded by Banjo Ginga)
- Jigoro Inokuma in Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
- Jinpachi Nekota in Hajime no Ippo
- Jirokichi Suzuki in Case Closed
- Jodo in The Castle of Cagliostro
- Dub voice of Julius Levinson in Independence Day
- Dub voice of John Hammond in Jurassic Park
- Karin-sama and Tsuru Sennin in Dragon Ball
- Konaki Jijii in Gegege No Kitaro
- Larry Da Vinci in LittleBigPlanet 2
- Lucaim Nav in Phantasy Star Universe
- Lyas in Langrisser I
- Max Detweiler (Richard Haydn) in the videogram Japanese dub of The Sound of Music
- Mito in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Mysterious Voice/Narrator in Onimusha: Warlords
- Dr. Nanba in Pokémon
- Namihei Isono in Sazae-san
- The Narrator of the Record of Lodoss War OAV
- Philoctetes in Kingdom Hearts
- Dr. Reichwein in Monster
- Rusty in Home on the Range
- Rowlf the Dog in the Japanese dubs of The Muppet Show and Muppets from Space
- Dr. Sakezo Sado and Hikozaemon Tokugawa in Space Battleship Yamato
- Samos in Jak and Daxter
- Senbee's Grandfather in Doctor Slump
- Master Shafu in Juken Sentai Gekiranger (with a Role Reprise in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger)
- Slinky Dog in Toy Story
- Syam Vist in Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn
- Tanuki ("Raccoon") in the TMS anime adaptation of Botchan
- Tawashi in Astro Boy (1980 series)
- Dub voice of Wishbone in Rawhide
- Dub voice of Yoda in the Star Wars prequels
- Yosemite Sam in Looney Tunes
- Yourei Taisei in Inuyasha
- The owner of the Phantom Ramen Shop in Space Dandy, which may have been his final role.
