TesshÅ Genda
Tesshō Genda (玄田 哲章 Genda Tesshō born May 20, 1948) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居 光雄 Yokoi Mitsuo). Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in City Hunter and Angel Heart, the original voice of Guile in many of the Street Fighter video games and anime, Agent Shu in Dragon Ball as well the titular villain of Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Kazumi Araiwa in Cooking Papa, the Nine tailed Fox Demon in Naruto, Dan Dastun in The Big O, Sourman in Dr. Slump, Taurus Aldebaran in Saint Seiya, the Younger Toguro Brother in Yu Yu Hakusho, Action Bastard in Shin Chan, The Punisher in the Marvel Anime films and the Impostor Captain Tennille in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, Batman in the DC Animated Universe and among other incarnations, Cable in the TV Tokyo dub of Saban's X-Men, the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in Looney Tunes, Kratos in the God of War series, Mace Windu in Star Wars, the slumbering dragon in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Good Cop/Bad Cop (but not Batman!) in The LEGO Movie. He's also the official Japanese dub over voices for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, Dan Aykroyd.
Roles
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
Scramble City
- Convoy
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers 2010
- Convoy
The Headmasters
The Transformers: The Movie
- Convoy
TF Telephone audio adventures: The Battlestars
The Transformers
- Convoy
DreamMix TV World Fighters video game
- Convoy
Super Link
Galaxy Force
- Primus
Kiss Players
- Convoy
Transformers (2007) movie
Revenge of the Fallen movie
- Optimus Prime
Animated
- Omega Supreme
- Generation 1 Optimus Prime (pre-title sequence gag for "TransWarped, Part 1")
Dark of the Moon movie
- Optimus Prime
Age of Extinction movie
- Optimus Prime
Q-Transformers: Mystery of Convoy Returns
Notes
- Because of his healthy background in ballet, one of his popular nicknames is "Pirouette Genda". *snicker*
- Genda played a parody of his Optimus Prime character (named "Ostimus Surprise") in episode 7 of the series Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. Seizō Katō, despite having retired from the role, played a parody of Megatron in that same episode.
