Kinya Aikawa
- April 15, 2015
- 80 years
- lung cancer
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Full Biography
|Kinya Aikawa (愛川 欽也, Aikawa Kin'ya; June 25, 1934 – April 15, 2015), born Toshiaki Ikawa (井川 敏明, Ikawa Toshiaki), was a Japanese actor, tarento and voice actor. He was born in Tokyo and died in 2015 of lung cancer.
Filmography
Acting roles
Films
- Torakku Yarō series (1975-1979)
- The Battle of Port Arthur (1980)
- Edo Porn (1981)
Television
- Naruhodo! The World (host, 1981–1996)
Voice roles
Television
- Space Ace (1965), Yadokari
- Son-goku is Coming: Chapter of Ko-fu Dai-o (1966 special), Sagojo
- Jump Out! Batchiri (1966), Officer Chibisu, Roba
- Gokū no Daibōken (1967), Sagojo
- Speed Racer (1967), Ken'ichi Mifune / Racer X
- The Monster Kid (1968)
- Hakushon Daimaou (1969), Grandfather "And then"
- Inakappe Taishō (1970), Nyanko-sensei
- Vampiyan Kids (2001), Papa
Films
Dubbing
- Jack Lemmon
- The Apartment (C.C. Baxter)
- The Front Page (Hildy Johnson)
- Good Neighbor Sam (Sam Bissell)
- The Great Race (Professor Fate / Prince Hapnick)
- How to Murder Your Wife (Stanley Ford)
- Irma la Douce (Nestor Patou / Lord X)
- Mister Roberts (Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver)
- Some Like It Hot (Jerry - 'Daphne')
- Under the Yum Yum Tree (Hogan)
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army (Lt. Rip Crandall)
- Dr. Strangelove (1971 TV Asahi edition) (Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers))
- Singin' in the Rain (Donald Lockwood (Gene Kelly))
- Strangers on a Train (Guy Haines (Farley Granger))
Classic roles
- Tōkyō Megure Keishi, a 25-episode TV Series aired from April 14 to May 29, 1978, on TV Asahi. Although the series is based on a French series of Maigret mystery books by Georges Simenon and Aikawa is now primarily known as a voice actor, it is not a dubbed version of the French TV Series based on the books. Aikawa stars in person as Megure, a Japanese-born equivalent to the French Maigret, reinvented in a Japanese setting.
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- Wikipedia
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