Born on May 10, 1931, Ichirō Nagai was active as a voice actor since the 1960s. He has voiced a wide variety of older male characters, going from the Evil Old Folks to the Dirty Old Man types, and has been known to use a Kansai accent.
Sadly, on January 27, 2014, Nagai succumed to a heart attack
, aged 83, much to the sadness of his fellow actors. 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 ˝
- 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
- Matthew Cuthbert in the first Japanese dub of CBC's Anne of Green Gables; later Darrin'd by Koichi Chiba in the Fuji TV redub
- 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.
