ACTOR

Tōru Furuya

1953 - Today

Photo of Tōru Furuya

Icon of person Tōru Furuya

Tōru Furuya (古谷 徹, Furuya Tōru, born July 31, 1953, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a former Japanese voice actor and narrator. As a child, he was a member of Gekidan Himawari, a children's acting troupe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tōru Furuya has received more than 444,431 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Tōru Furuya is the 3,200th most popular actor (up from 3,401st in 2019), the 1,034th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tōru Furuya ranks 3,200 out of 13,578. Before him are Yūjirō Ishihara, Clémence Poésy, Alice Krige, William Zabka, Mark Addy, and Josephine Hull. After him are Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Rachel Ward, Justin Theroux, Sam Wanamaker, Giovanna Antonelli, and Jennifer O'Neill.

Most Popular Actors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Tōru Furuya ranks 214. Before him are Yolande Moreau, Dieter Zetsche, Johnny Clegg, Thomas Friedman, Władysław Kozakiewicz, and David Deutsch. After him are Boris Grebenshchikov, Graeme Souness, Eric Bogosian, Wim Eijk, James Russo, and Hwang Woo-suk.

Others Born in 1953

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tōru Furuya ranks 1,034 out of 6,245. Before him are Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Akira Terao (1947), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Mikio Sato (1928), and Susumu Hirasawa (1954). After him are Hideki Maeda (1954), Keizo Imai (1950), Ken Ogata (1937), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Hidetsugu Yagi (1886), and Shigefumi Mori (1951).

Others born in Japan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Tōru Furuya ranks 49. Before him are Takehito Koyasu (1967), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), Akira Kamiya (1946), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Akira Terao (1947), and Yūjirō Ishihara (1934). After him are Ken Ogata (1937), Norio Wakamoto (1945), So Yamamura (1910), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Rentarō Mikuni (1923), and Eiji Okada (1920).

Japanese born Actors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Television and Movie Roles

Goku's Fire Brigade
Yamcha (voice)
A ten-minute public service video about fire safety, which aired in Japan on June 8, 1988. This video features the main Dragon Ball characters having jobs as firefighters and Bulma living in a new apartment with Scratch.
Jun 8o 19880 / 10