Tetsuro Tamba
Encyclopedia : T : TE : TET : Tetsuro Tamba
Tetsuro Tamba (丹波 哲郎 Tanba Tetsurō, born July 17, 1922 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actor. He is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as "Tiger" Tanaka in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan. More recently, he has had parts in Twilight Samurai and two Takashi Miike films, The Happiness of the Katakuris and Gozu.
He is the father of actor Yoshitaka Tanba.
External links
From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.