Hideyuki Umezu (born July 24th, 1955) is a Japanese voice actor who provides voices for the Japanese version of Thomas and Friends.
He is best known for voicing Yukinojyo from "Tenchi Muyo", Arthur Weasly from the "Harry Potter" films, Splinter from the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoon, Book-sensei from "Soreike! Anpanman", Zazu from "The Lion King", and Pinky from "Animaniacs".
Voices
- Skarloey (ninth season onwards)
- Quarry Worker (Signals Crossed)
Trivia
- Both he and Herman López voiced Krang from the 1987 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series in their respective languages.
- Hiroko Emori, Rainer Schmitt, Daiki Nakamura, Dariusz Odija, Håkan Mohede, Achim Schülke, Reinder van der Naalt, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Toshiharu Sakurai, Jorge Santos, Marion von Stengel, Masayuki Omoro, Simcha Barbiro, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Bin Shimada, Talya Barkay, Hidenari Ugaki, Gérard Boucaron, Kenji Utsumi, Naoki Tatsuta, Kiyonobu Suzuki and Oliver Rohrbeck also worked on the 1987 version of the series. There have also been several other people that have worked on other parts of the franchise:
- Alan Prieto, Yehonatan Magon, Javier Olguín, José Gilberto Vilchis, Ricardo Bautista, Tim Kreuer, Jorge Badillo, Mia Kadosh, Idzi Dutkiewicz, Józef Pawłowski, Gadi Levy, Tzvika Shwartzberg, Shōto Kashii, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Talya Barkay ("again") and Sukekiyo Kameyama ("the 2012 version").
- Hidenari Ugaki (again), Yohei Nishina, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Stig Krogstad, Samuel Harjanne, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Tomohiro Nishimura, Kiyonobu Suzuki, Kunihiro Kawamoto, Denis Bespalyy, Ryūji Nakagi, Saar Badishi, Daisuke Gōri, Takafumi Kawakami, Tzvika Shwartzberg, Shōto Kashii, Santiago Ziesmer, Kenji Utsumi and Dariusz Odija ("again") ("the 2003 version").
- Helmut Krauss, Yehonatan Magon ("again"), Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Piotr Bajtlik, César Árias, Karina Altamirano, Pasi Ruohonen, Caspar Phillipson, ("again") Alan Prieto and ("again") Oliver Rohrbeck ("the films").
- Hiroko Emori, Rainer Schmitt, Daiki Nakamura, Dariusz Odija, Håkan Mohede, Achim Schülke, Reinder van der Naalt, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, Toshiharu Sakurai, Jorge Santos, Marion von Stengel, Masayuki Omoro, Simcha Barbiro, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Bin Shimada, Talya Barkay, Hidenari Ugaki, Gérard Boucaron, Kenji Utsumi, Naoki Tatsuta, Kiyonobu Suzuki and Oliver Rohrbeck also worked on the 1987 version of the series. There have also been several other people that have worked on other parts of the franchise:
- He voiced one of Mushibakinman's clones from Anpanman, the same character Kenji Utsumi voiced from the series.
- He is one of the few voice actors to appear in both Thomas and TUGS, in which he voices Zak, Burke, and Puffa.
- Both he and Jarosław Boberek both voiced Zeke in "Ice age" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Santiago Ziesmer voiced Huy from "The Prince of Egypt" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Reinder van der Naalt voiced Pinky from "Animaniacs" in their respective languages.
- He, along with Kōzō Shioya and Masashi Ebara, voiced characters together in "Animaniacs".
- He worked alongside Hirohiko Kakegawa, Rokurō Naya, and Tesshō Genda on "The Swan Princess II: Escape from Castle Mountain".
- He worked alongside Kumiko Higa, Daiki Nakamura, Kenta Miyake, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Tetsu Inada, Shinichirō Miki, Satoshi Katougi, Yasuhiko Kawazu, Junko Noda, and Yūsuke Numata on "MegaMan NT Warrior: Axess".
- Both he and Shingo Fujimori voiced characters together from "Hotel Transylvania".