Japanese Columbo, RIP

石田太郎 (Taro Ishida), a Japanese actor who also did voice dubbing for many Japanese releases of Hollywood movies.  He was the “voice” of Gene Hackman in most of Hackman’s movies in Japan.  He was also the Japanese voice of the late Peter Falk’s TV detective character “Columbo“.

Mr. Ishida died this past weekend.

Taro Ishida, 1944 Mar 16 – 2013 Sept 21, R.I.P.