Yasuo Yamada

Biography

Yasuo Yamada was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator born in Tokyo, Japan, who left his studies at Waseda University to pursue the performing arts. He gained international recognition for voicing Arsène Lupin III in the Lupin the Third series from 1971 to 1995, a role that cemented his legacy as a master of Japanese voice acting. Yamada also provided voices for notable foreign actors, including Clint Eastwood and Jean-Paul Belmondo. He passed away at 62 due to a brain hemorrhage in 1995.