Hidenari Ugaki (宇垣 秀成, Ugaki Hidenari, born July 25, 1963) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tokyo. He is currently attached to 81 Produce. He is best known for his roles in Mobile Fighter G Gundam (as Argo Gulskii), the TV Tokyo edition of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (as Donatello), the 2005 Doraemon series (as Kannari-san), and the Yakuza video game series (as Goro Majima).
Biography[]
A graduate of Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1984, he entered the Bungakuza Theatre Institute. He has a history of appearing in TV dramas as an actor, but has since shifted his focus to voice acting, including anime, games, dubbing, and narration.
His voice is soft, but anime fans know him for his macho, rough voice. He often plays middle-aged to elderly characters, appropriate for his age. He is active in a wide range of fields, including narrating commercials, providing audio commentary, and dubbing foreign films.
In the "Super Sentai Series," he often voices monsters, and after a guest appearance in "Denji Sentai Megaranger," he has become a regular villain voice actor. In "Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger," he played his first regular role as the Apostle of Infinity, Voffa.
In the Yakuza series, he plays the role of Goro Majima, but struggles with the Kansai dialect that Majima speaks. As a true Edokko, he is unable to speak well even after receiving dialect training, and he says with a hint of self-deprecation that Masayoshi Yokoyama, the scriptwriter and director, told him, "Let's go with the 'Majima dialect.'" He was a classmate of Takaya Kuroda, who plays Kiryu Kazuma in the same series.
His hobbies and special skills are skiing and swimming.
Dub Actors[]
| Actor | No. of Roles | Country |
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| Alex Hom | 2 | 
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| Ben Coates | 1 |
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| Justin Cook | 1 |
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| Chris Forbis | 1 |
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| Mark Hamill | 1 |
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| Kyle Hebert | 1 |
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| Francis Henry | 1 |
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| Vic Mignogna | 1 |
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| Paul St. Peter | 1 |
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| Shane Ray | 1 |
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| Phillip Wilburn | 1 |
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| Kent Williams | 1 |
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| Travis Willingham | 1 |
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| Jordan Woollen | 1 |
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Filmography[]
| Year | Character | Title | Dub Voice | Dub Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-1995 | Jorge Saotome (ep. 13) | Yu Yu Hakusho | Kent Williams | United States |
| Gaou | Phillip Wilburn | |||
| Makintaro | Shane Ray | |||
| Kirenjya | Chris Forbis | |||
| Okubo | Kyle Hebert | |||
| Touou | Travis Willingham | |||
| 1996 | Hendock | Garzey's Wing | Ben Coates | United States |
| 1997-2002 | Kaneyo's Servant (eps. 124, 175) |
Pokémon | Dan Green | United States |
| 2002-2006 | Ogata (ep. 151) |
Pokémon Advanced Generation | Craig Blair | United States |
| 2005 | Goro Majima | Yakuza | Mark Hamill | United States |
| 2006-2008 | Pierrot | D.Gray-man | Vic Mignogna | United States |
| 2018-2020 | Spec's Guard (ep. 1) | Baki | ¿? | United States |
| 2018-present | Huang Louis | Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These | Francis Henry (ep. 9) | United States |
| Jordan Woollen (eps. 32-33) | ||||
| 2022 | Arasaka Academy Director | Cyberpunk: Edgerunners | Paul St. Peter | United States |
| 2022 | Tryton du Diento (eps. 3, 5) | Skeleton Knight in Another World | Alex Hom | United States |
| 2022-present | Vandel Him Zenden (ep. 12) | Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs | Justin Cook | United States |
| 2023 | Tanishi (ep. 3) | Rurouni Kenshin | ¿? | United States |
| 2023 | Botaculli (eps. 4-5) | The Great Cleric | Alex Hom | United States |
External Links[]
- Hidenari Ugaki on the Anime News Network's encyclopedia.
- Hidenari Ugaki on AniList.
- Hidenari Ugaki on Behind The Voice Actors.