Nobuo Nakamura

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.

Known For

Dr. Suga

フランケンシュタイン対地底怪獣

Deputy Mayor

生きる

Shuzo Taguchi

秋日和

Honsha Buchô

人間の條件　第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇

Legal Adviser

悪い奴ほどよく眠る

Old Gentleman

タンポポ

Ishimaru, National Shoes Design Department Director

天国と地獄

Doctor Matakata

宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ

Kurazo Kaneko

東京物語

牝

Sakae Aiba

東京暮色

Serizawa, executive

裸の重役

二人の恋人

Father-in-Law

愛の渇き

Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujikawa

世界大戦争

君は海を見たか

ノーライフキング

Hôan Tatara

悪魔の手毬唄

西海道談綺

Harumatsu(春松検校)

春琴抄

Professor Koizumi

獣人雪男

愛のうず潮

育ちざかり

Head of N-Bussan

豹は走った

Koichi Kido

激動の昭和史 軍閥

箱根山

婦系図湯島の白梅

由起子

幻の殺意

超高層のあけぼの

氾濫

Customer

BU・SU

自由学校

続社長紳士録

Psychologist

生きものの記録

Phantom samurai

蜘蛛巣城

鬼火

日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

Doctor

流れる

杏っ子

鹿鳴館

夜の蝶

その夜は忘れない

絶唱

濹東綺譚

Kimura

妻として女として

Takeda

黒い画集　あるサラリーマンの証言

Toshihiko Kawai

彼岸花

処刑の部屋

乱れ雲

Prof. Tanaka

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

砂の香り

桜の代紋

Shunsho Kengyo

お琴と佐助

Wataru Kamogawa

みだれ髪

Self

生きてはみたけれど・小津安二郎伝

Fujieda (attorney at law)

恍惚の人

悪女の季節

Jiro Takagi

偽大学生

Professor Sugimura

野獣死すべし

黒の奔流

浦島太郎の後裔

大根と人参

Seiji's father, Haruo

夕やけ雲

Shuzo Kawai

秋刀魚の味

Professor Kita

フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ

Watsuji

黄金のパートナー

Japanese Ambassador

日本沈没

Nomura, Chairman

伊津子とその母

Arakawa

早春

ひまわり娘

鳴門秘帖

本日休診

青色革命

ともしび

にごりえ

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Marquis Koichi Kido

日本のいちばん長い日

街

複雑な彼

Japanese Ambassador

Tidal Wave