Hisashi Katsuta was a Japanese actor and voice actor.
13 Facts About Hisashi Katsuta
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Hisashi Katsuta is best known for his voice-over portrayal of Professor Ochanomizu in three anime adaptations of the Astro Boy franchise, and voiced Dr Hoshi in Astroganger, Professor Tobishima in Groizer X, and Shin'ichiro Izumi in Tosho Daimos.
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Hisashi Katsuta had been interested in film and theater since childhood, and he and his elder brother would often see films.
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Hisashi Katsuta graduated from the Kamakura Academia Faculty of Theatre in 1949.
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Hisashi Katsuta became a member of the Toho Drama Club in 1948, and was a member of the Tokyo Hoso Gekidan, Mori no Kai, Players Center, Tebura, Rindo Pro, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and Arts Vision.
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Hisashi Katsuta's voice acting career started in 1948 when he appeared in NHK's 1948 radio adaptation of the Shi Nai'an novel Water Margin, and he was contracted to the broadcaster in 1949 before being released in 1954.
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Hisashi Katsuta started dubbing work with the Japanese dub of The Buccaneers, a television drama produced in the United Kingdom in 1956.
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Hisashi Katsuta later cited Surfside 6 and The Beverly Hillbillies, both American live-action shows in the 1960s, as two of his most memorable dubbing works.
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In 1979, Hisashi Katsuta voiced the fictional depiction of King Louis XV of France in The Rose of Versailles and a fictional depiction of the Sengoku-era samurai Sanada Yukimura in Manga Sarutobi Sasuke.
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Hisashi Katsuta was taught by "veteran voice actors" and felt that he wanted to teach voice actors, and after being a lecturer in several voice acting schools, he started a voice acting class in April 1982, which in April 1987 would later become the Hisashi Katsuta Voice Acting Academy, where he would be dean.
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Hisashi Katsuta published Soshite seiyu ga hajimatta, an autobiography that feature thirty-two voice actors with a prominent impact on Japanese culture.
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Hisashi Katsuta was one of three winners of the Synergy Award at the 3rd Seiyu Awards on 7 March 2009.
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Hisashi Katsuta died of senility on 21 February 2020, at the age of 92 in a hospital in Ome, Tokyo; he was survived by his wife Katsumi.