Nobuo Nakamura
Acting
Biography
Nobuo Nakamura (中村伸郎 Nakamura Nobuo, September 14, 1908–July 5, 1991 ) was a Japanese actor, who made notable appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu in the 1950s and 1960s. Perhaps his most famous roles were those of the callous deputy mayor in Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952), and the hairdresser's henpecked husband in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953). Nakamura is famous for many notable performances in theatre. In 1937, he founded the Bungakuza company along with Haruko Sugimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, and Masayuki Mori. Nakamura played Polonius in Hamlet, Herod in Wilde's Salome, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Serebryakov in Chekov's Uncle Vanya, and Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape. He also appeared in Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Cherry Orchard . In the 1950s and 1960s, he played major roles in Yukio Mishima's plays such as Rokumeikan, My Friend Hitler, and so on. In 1963, Nakamura left Bungakuza company and founded the NLT company with Mishima. His most famous and successful role is considered to be The Professor in Ionesco's The Lesson. He performed The Lesson for the first time in 1972 and had played The Professor every Friday night at a small theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo until 1983. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nobuo Nakamura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: September 14, 1908
Place of Birth: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Customer
as Old Gentleman
as Self
as Mikio Hamashima
as Watsuji
as 東貞蔵
as Hôan Tatara
as Harumatsu(春松検校)
as Japanese Ambassador
as Japanese Ambassador
as Fujieda (attorney at law)
as Koichi Kido
as Head of N-Bussan
as Fujikawa
as Fujikawa (Atlas Motors President)
as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido
as Father-in-Law
as Ryūtarō Ōsato
as Professor Kita
as Nobuo Tomioka
as Kazumasa Nagahara
as Dr. Suga
as Doctor Matakata
as Serizawa, executive
as Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director
as Shuzo Kawai
as Shunsho Kengyo
as Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa
as Kimura
as Wataru Kamogawa
as Honsha Buchô
as Shuzo Taguchi
as Jiro Takagi
as Legal Adviser
as Takeda
as Professor Sugimura
as Executive Watanabe
as Kuga
as Honsha Buchô
as Toshihiko Kawai
as Hishikawa Kao
as Prof. Tanaka
as Sakae Aiba
as Phantom samurai
as Doctor
as Seiji's father, Haruo
as Arakawa
as Psychologist
as Professor Koizumi
as Nomura, Chairman
as Kurazo Kaneko
as Deputy Mayor