Kazuo Kumakura

Birth: January 30, 1927

Death: October 12, 2015

Age: 88

Gender: Male

Hometown: Azabu (today's Minato), Tokyo, Japan

Years Active: 1951 ~ 2015

From 1957, he became the Japanese voice of Alfred Hitchcock in Nippon TV's TV broadcasts of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and from 1989, he played the voice of Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot.

He died of rectal cancer on October 12, 2015, at a hospital in Tokyo, at the age of 88.