Clifford Harrington (June 18, 1932 – August 9, 2013) was a Tokyo-based American voice actor who primarily did dubbing work for Frontier Enterprises.
Clifford Harrington | |
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| Born | June 18, 1932 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| Died | August 9, 2013 (aged 81) Kyushu, Japan |
| Occupation | Voice actor |
| Years active | 1962–2013 |
| Spouse | Tomoko Harrington |
Biography
editBorn in Seattle, Washington on June 18, 1932, military life eventually brought Harrington to Japan where he would end up teaching English for 35 years. Beyond that, Harrington would become involved in the entertainment industry. He is perhaps best known for his brief appearance as Al in King Kong vs. Godzilla, and by happenstance ended up dubbing the voice of the helicopter pilot he sat next to (in the Japanese version).[1]
Harrington dubbed many films via William Ross and Frontier Enterprises, spending countless hours in recording studios working with Japanese technicians. He even worked as cinematographer on Robert Dunham's independent film Time Travelers. Harrington was close friends with Ross, and as such, he had more scope to negotiate his roles and work schedule. According to Richard Nieskens, Harrington eventually began to show up less and less around the late 1980s and early 1990s, having grown bored of the process after so many decades.[2]
The country afforded Harrington the chance to use his college journalism training as a writer and photographer to meet and interview movie stars and other celebrities who came to Tokyo from other countries, including the likes of Mel Gibson, Muhammad Ali, Charlton Heston, and Robert Mitchum.[3]
Harrington married his wife Tomoko in 1988, and moved to Kyushu in 2011 to be closer to his wife's aging parents. Harrington fell ill sometime in early 2013, and never recovered. He died in Kyushu on August 9, 2013, at the age of 81.
Filmography
editDubbing
editAnime
edit- Choppy & the Princess (1967–1968) – Choppy
Anime films
edit- Lupin the 3rd: The Mystery of Mamo (1978) – Dan Dunn (1979 Toho/Frontier dub)
- Cyborg 009: The Legend of the Super Galaxy (1980) – Professor Isaac Gilmore
- Voltus 5 (1980) – Mark Gordon, Commander Robinson, and narrator
- Arcadia of My Youth (1982) – Zoll
- The Dagger of Kamui (1985) – Taroza, and Iga Chief
Video games
edit- Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (1991) – Mayor Grady[4]
References
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Content in this article was copied from Cliff Harrington at Dubbing Wikia, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.
- ^ Brett (November 11, 2013). "Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker: CLIFFORD V. HARRINGTON: 1932–2013". Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ "PUTTING WORDS IN THEIR MOUTHS! Dick Nieskens Talks Dubbing!". Vantage Point Interviews. May 17, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ Harrington, Cliff (2010). "Forty Stories of Japan" (PDF). Fine Line Press.
- ^ "Cliff Harrington (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved June 26, 2019. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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External links
edit- Cliff Harrington at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Cliff Harrington at IMDb
- https://www.jef.or.jp/journal/pdf/237th_Special_Article_05.pdf
- http://www.finelinepress.co.nz/harrington.html
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