Akira Kume

Akira Kume (久米 明) was a Japanese actor and voice actor.

He died on 23 April 2020 from heart failure.

Films

 * The Insect Woman (1963) - Investigator
 * Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) - First Secretary Katsuzo Okumura (uncredited)
 * Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon (1974) - Watabe
 * Kinkanshoku (1975) - Prime Minister
 * Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset (1976) - Mayor of Tatsuno
 * Yojōhan seishun garasu-bari (1976) - Detective
 * Fumō Chitai (1976) - Cabinet minister
 * Female Teacher (1977) - Kamino / Schoolmaster
 * Kitamura Toukoku: Waga fuyu no uta (1977)
 * The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979) - Hyōgo
 * Dōran (1980) - Kinzo Mizoguchi
 * Shag (1989)
 * Graduation Journey: I Came from Japan (1993) - Narrator
 * Pipi to benai hotaru (1996) - Elder Stag

Television dramas

 * Key Hunter (1968) - Killer Ueno
 * Kunitori Monogatari (1973) - Akechi Mitsuyasu
 * Taiyō ni Hoero! (1978–1979) - Soda
 * Oretachi wa Tenshi da! (1979), Episode #1 - Funashima
 * Kusa Moeru (1979) - Itō Sukechika
 * Kinpachi-sensei (1981) - Ōyama
 * Shadow Warriors (1981) - Tokugawa Mitsukuni
 * Ōoka Echizen (1983) - Old man
 * Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983) - Katagiri Katsumoto
 * Choshichiro Edo Nikki (1983) - Amemiya
 * Edo o Kiru (1987) - Matsudaira Izuminokami
 * Hachidai Shōgun Yoshimune (1995) - Ōkubo Tadatomo

Stage

 * Death of a Salesman
 * The Lower Depths
 * The Merchant of Venice
 * The Tempest

Television animation

 * Botchan (1980) - Narrator
 * In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992) - Narrator
 * Phoenix (2004) - Narrator

Anime films

 * Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie (1982) - Professor Toporo
 * Crusher Joe (1983) - Dan
 * Penguin's Memory - Shiawase monogatari (1985) - The Librarian
 * Doraemon: Nobita's the Night Before a Wedding (1999) - Shizuka's Papa

Video games

 * The Legend of Dragoon (1999) - Dewey

Live-action

 * Humphrey Bogart
 * Angels with Dirty Faces (Jim Frazier)
 * The Roaring Twenties (George Hally)
 * The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
 * Casablanca (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Rick Blaine)
 * Action in the North Atlantic (First Officer Joe Rossi)
 * Sahara (Sergeant Joe Gunn)
 * To Have and Have Not (Harry "Steve" Morgan)
 * The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe)
 * Key Largo (1967 TV Asahi edition) (Maj. Frank McCloud)
 * The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Fred C. Dobbs)
 * The African Queen (Charlie Allnut)
 * The Barefoot Contessa (1966 TV Asahi and 1979 TV Tokyo editions) (Harry Dawes)
 * The Caine Mutiny (1979 Fuji TV edition) (Lt. Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg)
 * Sabrina (Linus Larrabee)
 * The Desperate Hours (NHK edition (Glenn Griffin))
 * The Bridge on the River Kwai (1976 Fuji TV edition) (Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness))
 * The Changeling (John Russell (George C. Scott))
 * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2008 NTV edition) (Dr. Wilbur Wonka (Christopher Lee))
 * Cinema Paradiso (Alfredo (Philippe Noiret))
 * Clash of the Titans (1985 TV Asahi edition) (Ammon (Burgess Meredith))
 * Julia (1980 Fuji TV edition) (Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards))
 * The Last Emperor (1989 TV Asahi edition) (Chen Baochen (Victor Wong))
 * Sherlock Holmes (Mycroft Holmes (Charles Gray))
 * Star Wars (1983 NTV edition) (Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness))

Animated films

 * Fun and Fancy Free (Pony Canyon edition (Edgar Bergen))
 * The Little Mermaid (King Triton)
 * The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Pony Canyon edition (Narrator))
 * Song of the South (Pony Canyon edition (Uncle Remus))

Television animation

 * SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (Pastmaster)

Honours

 * Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (1992)
 * Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1997)