Gorō Naya, Japanese actor and director (d. 2013)
Gorō Naya (納谷悟朗, Naya Gorō, 17 November 1929 – 5 March 2013) was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He and his brother were two of seven children, and was a drop-out of the legal education division of Ritsumeikan University. He was connected to Theatre Echo, and was the older brother of actor and voice actor Rokurō Naya, as well as the husband of actress and voice actress Kachiko Hino.
Naya is best known for providing the voice of Inspector Koichi Zenigata in the Lupin III franchise and for dubbing over the voices of actors Clark Gable, Charlton Heston, John Cleese, Lee Van Cleef, Martin Landau and Robert Ryan in the Japanese-language editions of their films. He died on 5 March 2013, at age 83, due to chronic respiratory failure.
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