TesshÅ Genda
Tesshō Genda (玄田 哲章 Genda Tesshō) is a Japanese voice actor. He was born in Okayama, Japan on May 20, 1948, as Mitsuo Yokoi (横居 光雄 Yokoi Mitsuo).
Some of his most famous roles include Umibōzu in City Hunter and Angel Heart, Guile in many of the Street Fighter video games and anime, Shu in Dragon Ball, Dan Dastun in The Big O, Suppaman in Dr. Slump, the Younger Toguro Brother in Yu Yu Hakusho and Action Bastard in Shin Chan.
In terms of dubbing, some of his roles include Tigger in Winnie the Pooh, almost every Batman since the Animated Series, Cable in the TV Tokyo dub of Saban's X-Men, the current voice for Foghorn Leghorn in Looney Tunes, Basil in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and Bad Cop (but not Batman!) in The LEGO Movie. He's also the official Japanese dub-voice for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Seagal and, uh, Dan Aykroyd.
Roles
Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers
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
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.
