Hideyuki Umezu
Hideyuki Umezu (梅津秀行, Umezu Hideyuki born July 24, 1955 - May 17, 2024) was a Japanese voice actor. Some of his more notable anime and video games roles include Battle Rock and Growvine from Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos, Barry the Chopper from Full Metal Alchemist, Ian Vashti in Gundam 00, Vindel Mauser from the Super Robot Wars franchise and the narrator from Death Note. He also voiced characters in almost a dozen different installments of the Super Sentai franchise, including notable roles such as Sanyo in Juken Sentai Gekiranger.
In the world of dubbing, some of his roles include Pinky from both Animaniacs & Pinky & the Brain, Mad Mod from Teen Titans, Master Splinter and Krang from the TV Tokyo dub of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and again in the Mutant Turtles: Superman Legend OVAs, Dr. I.Q. High from Duck Dodgers, Artie Ziff from The Simpsons, Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams) from the Harry Potter films, Zazu from The Lion King, Mojo from the TV Tokyo dub of Saban's X-Men and the singing meteorite from that really good episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
