Nachi Nozawa

Nachi Nozawa (野沢 那智, Nozawa Nachi, January 13, 1938 – October 30, 2010) was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Tokyo. He was affiliated with Office PAC at the time of his death. His real name was Yasutomo Nozawa (野沢 那智, Nozawa Yasutomo). Nozawa was the official dub-over artist of Al Pacino and Alain Delon. Also he was known for voicing Giuliano Gemma, Robert Redford, Bruce Willis (Especially for John McClane in the Die Hard franchise), Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Walken, David McCallum (Especially for Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), C-3PO (in the Star Wars Trilogy) and Don Johnson (in the television series Nash Bridges). He was also the first dub-over voice of Willem Dafoe and James Woods in their early days. In the animation field, He was known as his roles in Cobra (as Cobra), Dororo (as Hyakkimaru), Gokū no Daibōken (as Sanzo), Sakura Wars series (as Oni-Ou) and the Hellsing (as Alexander Anderson). On October 30, 2010, at 3:36 P.M., Nozawa died at a Tokyo hospital of lung cancer. He was 72 years old at the time of his death. A year after his death, he was honored with a Special Merit Award in the 5th Seiyu Awards.