Taitem Kusunoki
Taitem Kusunoki (楠 大典 Kusunoki Taiten, born on March 18, 1967) is a Japanese voice actor who was born as Daisuke Fukuda (福田大典 Fukuda Daisuke). Some of his more notable roles include Ibiki Morino in Naruto, Harimao in Lupin III: Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure, Joseph Copeland in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Antonio Lopez/Rock Bison in Tiger & Bunny, and Professor Utonium in Powerpuff Girls Z. In video games, he is the voice of E-102 Gamma and E-123 Omega in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.
In the world of dubbing, Kusunoki has played Goliath in Disney's Gargoyles, Lt. Stone in G.I. Joe Extreme, Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, John Stewart/Green Lantern in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, Dengar in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Shocker in Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, the Lizard in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, and he's one of the official dub voices for both The Rock and Tyrese Gibson.
Roles
Car Robots
Micron Legend
Galaxy Force
Movie (2007)
Adventure
Notes
- Kusunoki has dubbed for Tyrese Gibson in numerous films, including Annapolis, Four Brothers, Flight of the Phoenix and 2 Fast 2 Furious. As fate would have it, though, he did NOT dub Gibson in the live-action Transformers film series. Jin Yamanoi got that job.
- Kusunoki has dubbed for The Rock in numerous films, including G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Get Smart, Faster and Walking Tall. And yet the job of playing Prime Cliffjumper went to Noriaki Sugiyama. He just can't win.
External links
- Kusunoki Taitem Official Site Go Taitem (Japanese)
- Taitem Kusunoki at the Anime News Network
- Kusunoki at Japanese Wikipedia
