Taichirō Hirokawa

Taichirō Hirokawa (1960-2008) was a Japanese voice actor who spoke for the talking red crow in the short Creature SHop-effects film Red Crow and the Ghost Ship (dubbing over the on-set English dialogue by puppeteer Mak Wilson).

Hirokawa was a prominent anime voice, heard as Captain Future, Sherlock Holmes on Sherlock Hound, Mamoru Kodai on Space Battleship Yamamoto, and Snork in the Moomin adaptation. He was the Japanese voice of Tony Curtis, Roger Moore (including the James Bond films), and Eric Idle (including Monty Python projects. Hirokawa also dubbed Donald O'Connor in Singing in the Rain, Michael Caine in The Swarm, Rowan Atkinson in Bean, Adam West on Batman, John Astin on The Addams Family, and Captain Magenta on the puppet series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Cartoon dubbing included Superman on The New Adventures of Superman and Peter Perfect on Wacky Races.