Tomohiro Nishimura (西村 智博, born on 2 February 1961 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō) is a Japanese musician and actor who provided voices from the Japanese version of Thomas & Friends.
He is best known for voicing Hector from "Heathcliff", Fred the Mutant from "Biker Mice from Mars", Basil Karlo/Clayface from "The Batman", Midvalley from "Trigun", Seaquant from "Hunter x Hunter", Dr. Wiseman and Professor Cozmo from "Pokémon", Howie Hardy and Hattori Kinzo from the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Takuo Shibuimaru and Matt/Mail Jeevas from "Death Note", and SL-Man from "Soreike! Anpanman".
Voices
Trivia
- He, alongside Tesshō Genda and Hidenari Ugaki, voiced Udaijin from "Soreike! Anpanman".
- Both he and Salty's Lighthouse voice actor Paul Dobson voiced Billy Kane from "Fatal Fury" in their respective languages.
- Both he and Miguel Ángel Ruiz voiced Matt/Mail Jeevas from "Death Note" in their respective languages.
- Arturo Mercado Jr., Rolando de Castro, Manuel Campuzano, Salvador Reyes, Hideo Ishikawa, Bruno Coronel, Kim Hasper, Mireya Mendoza, Nozomu Sasaki, Guillermo Coria, Wanja Gerick, Ernesto Lezama, Jorge Ornelas and Javier Olguín have also worked on "Death Note".
- He, Adriana Casas, Loukas Frangoulis, Piotr Bąk, Paul Disbergen, Mikołaj Klimek, Bartosz Martyna, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Dor Srugo, Mildred Barrera, Roberto Gutiérrez, Finn Poncin, Hinako Sasaki, Shinichirō Miki, Hisao Egawa, Javier Olguín, Kōichi Sakaguchi, Katsuji Mori, Susa Saukko, Janusz Wituch, Pasi Ruohonen, Dariusz Błażejewski, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Waldemar Barwiński, Junichi Kanemaru, Artur Pontek, Hiroshi Tsuchida, Krzysztof Szczerbiński, Josie Yee, Diana Pérez, Grzegorz Drojewski, Klaudiusz Kaufmann, Mayra Arellano, Sander de Heer, Hiroko Emori, Naomi Shindō, Justyna Bojczuk, Miłogost Reczek, Tsutomu Densaka, Bruno Coronel, Xóchitl Ugarte, Miguel Ángel Leal, Noriko Shitaya, Anna Gajewska, Gaby Ugarte, Hiro Nakajima, Roberto Mendiola, Chikara Osaka, Kan Tanaka, Yohei Nishina, Salvador Reyes, Yuri Shiratori, Bin Shimada, Ángel Amorós, Kenta Miyake, Keiko Toda, Octavio Rojas, Masaharu Satō, Trond Teigen, Kiyonobu Suzuki, Talya Barkay, Yehonatan Magon, Kumiko Higa, Nir Ron, Joanna Pach-Żbikowska, Scott Maurstad, Olga Kuznetsova, Jan Kulczycki, Moisés Iván Mora, Piotr Bajtlik, Hideki Takahashi, Alan Prieto, Beata Jankowska-Tzimas, Tetsu Inada, Nobutoshi Canna, Krystyna Kozanecka, Masayuki Omoro, Simen Sand, Gadi Levy, Paweł Szczesny, Erik Skjøld, Leonardo García, Dafnis Fernández, Adrian Perdjon, Gerardo García, Józef Mika, Lena Meieran, Manuel Campuzano, César Árias, Dulce Guerrero, Armando Coria, Salvador Serrano, Leyla Rangel, Samuel Harjanne, Cezary Kwieciński, Hikaru Midorikawa, Juha Paananen, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque, José Ángel Torres, Elise Langenoja, Jorge Ornelas, Markus Bäckman, Henri Piispanen, Arto Nieminen, Timo Kinzel, Katharina von Keller and Pauli Virta have all worked on “Pokémon”.
- He, alongside Hiroko Emori, Rainer Schmitt, Daiki Nakamura, Hideyuki Umezu, Dariusz Odija, Håkan Mohede, Herman López, 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 (again), Hidenari Ugaki, Gérard Boucaron, Kenji Utsumi, Naoki Tatsuta, Kiyonobu Suzuki and Oliver Rohrbeck, have all worked on the 1987 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series. There have also been other people that have worked 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 and Sukekiyo Kameyama (in the 2012 series)
- Hidenari Ugaki (again), Yohei Nishina, Jan-David Rönfeldt, Stig Krogstad, Samuel Harjanne, Tokuyoshi Kawashima, 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) (in the 2003 series).
- Helmut Krauss, Yehonatan Magon (again), Tokuyoshi Kawashima, Piotr Bajtlik, César Árias, Karina Altamirano, Pasi Ruohonen, Caspar Phillipson, (again) Alan Prieto, (again) Oliver Rohrbeck, Víctor Ugarte, Albert Cohen, Mireya Mendoza and Yigal Mizrachi (in the films).