Kazuhiro Yamaji (born June 4, 1954 in Mie, Japan) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Mie Prefecture affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company. He's very versatile when it comes to playing roles in every medium such as acting in film, television and theater and voice acting and dubbing anime, foreign films and video games.
He is also the dub actor of several Hollywood actors such as Jason Statham, Hugh Jackman, Sean Penn, Russell Crowe, Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz.
On January 22nd 2020, it was announced that he married Romi Park, despite being 18 years older.
His notable anime roles:
- Dr. Abullah in Pluto
- Batutta in How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
- Bel in Doki Doki Pretty Cure
- Bernard Symons in High Card
- Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
- Endurph in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
- Eugen (anime-only, but eventually replaced Keiji Fujiwara as of July 2020 when the latter died of cancer) and Guzaletha (game) in Granblue Fantasy (reprised his role as Eugen in Granblue Fantasy Versus, Versus: Rising and Granblue Fantasy: Relink)
- Gildo Tesoro and Senor Pink in One Piece
- Guy Valery Abeille in BBK/BRNK
- Henry Henderson in SPY×FAMILY
- Hit in Dragon Ball Super
- Inatika Akitani in The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer
- Iozan in The Boy and the Beast
- Jin Taejin in The God Of Highschool
- John Grizzly in Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective
- Josef in Unicorn Overlord
- Jouji Saiga in Psycho-Pass
- Kazuya Mishima in Tekken: The Motion Picture
- Kenny Ackerman in Attack on Titan
- Kurama in Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory
- Michihisa Kanou in Call of the Night
- Old Man in Kokkoku
- Oyassan in Blame!
- Piedmon in Digimon Ghost Game
- Rao in Sand Land
- Chairman Rose in Pokémon: Twilight Wings
- Rozan Shinoyama in Dead Mount Death Play
- Saburota Todo (old) in Blue Exorcist
- Sasaki Kojiro in Record of Ragnarok
- Silverfang in One-Punch Man
- Sylvestro Brega in Altair: A Record of Battles
- Uranus Hankai in Gintama
- Vincent Vanetti in 91 Days
- Willibald Joachim von Merkatz in Legend of the Galactic Heroes: The New Thesis, replacing Unshō Ishizuka after the latter's passing in mid 2018.
- Master Yamaji in Ninja Kamui.
- Yatsuhiro Kazanari in Symphogear
His notable video game roles:
- Argo in NieR Re[in]carnation
- Cid Highwind in Kingdom Hearts II and Dirge of Cerberus Final Fantasy VII (and all other Final Fantasy-related media onwards)
- Cliff in Death Stranding
- G in Street Fighter V
- Gabriel Rorke in Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Gatov in Dragalia Lost
- Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Soulcalibur VI
- Glover in Jump Force
- Grimson Balta in Ys X: Nordics
- Gustav Heydrich in #COMPASS
- Dr. Huesca in Master Detective Archives: Rain Code
- Jack Baker in Resident Evil 7
- Makoto Date in Like a Dragon
- Nathan Dawkins (Willem Dafoe) in Beyond: Two Souls
- Oelde Leonis in War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius
- Pollux in God of War: Ascension
- Raymond "T-Bone" Kenny in Watch_Dogs
- Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander XI in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Sylvestre Lesage in Final Fantasy XVI
- Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori in Fate/Grand Order
- The professor a.k.a. Akiharu Minase in Digimon Survive
- Cid Highwind in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
His notable live-action roles:
- Kei Karasuma in Kamen Rider Blade
- Ankokuji Ekei in Gunshi Kanbei
- Emperor Yodon in Mashin Sentai Kiramager
- Goma Rosalia in Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger
His notable dubbing roles:
- Bane (Tom Hardy) in The Dark Knight Rises
- Charlie Jones and his Other World counterpart in Coraline
- Darth Maul in Star Wars
- Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) in Farewell My Concubine
- Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) in The Fast and the Furious
- Jareth (David Bowie) in Labyrinth
- Logan/Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in X-Men Film Series
- The Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) in Doctor Who
- Pitch Black (Jude Law) in Rise of the Guardians
- Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) in Captain America and Avengers End Game
- Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) in Watchmen