Richard Nieskens

Richard Nieskens is an American actor and voice actor whose done work for Frontier Enterprises in Tokyo and working with Rick Thomas in Hong Kong.



Career
Nieskens was an English major in college. His work for the Panasonic Company brought Nieskens to Osaka twice on business. He would later travel to Tokyo for work, later being offered the position of creative director for a Tokyo ad agency.

Having previously worked as a DJ, Nieskens had a desire for further involvement in broadcasting, doing modeling and voice acting for his agency’s projects. His involvement in industry dubbing came in December of 1986, upon seeing a classified ad placed by William Ross in the Newspaper (a typical way of scouting English speakers in the Tokyo area for Frontier Enterprises by Ross). According to Nieskens, he was first cast in Ross’ next production, Dragon Ball Z (though given the time period and Frontier’s activies at the time, he was most likely referring to the first Dragon Ball movie). Nieskens would become a regular voice actor for Frontier during the four years he resided there, lending his voice to many works, including Albert Heinrich in Cyborg 009: The Legend of the Super Galaxy, Tatsuzo in the Tora-san films, Princess from the Moon and The Silk Road.

Nieskens would later move on to dubbing in Hong Kong, making a few exploratory trips beforehand. During his second trip, he was hired on the spot by the Chasen Company where he would work with Rick Thomas and Chris Hilton, dubbing bit parts for mainly Filipino and Indonesian action films. His stint with Chasen was relatively brief, only working for them from the fall to December of 1988 when he was hired by ATV to write and voice their on-air promos.

Nieskens would then go on to work as the writer and host of the weekly half-hour program Mild Seven Videography, which would air on Wednesdays, for which he would win a Silver Award at the Film & TV Festival in New York. Nieskens’ future work would bring him to many places including Barcelona, Spain and eventually back to Hong Kong, with much of his recent works primarily being for corporate videos.

Anime Films

 * Cyborg 009: The Legend of the Super Galaxy (1980) - Cyborg 004 (Albert Heinrich)
 * The Dagger of Kamui (1985) - Andō Shōzan & Narrator
 * Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986) (Frontier Dub; alleged)