Douglas Seale

Douglas Seale is the kind of actor I admire precisely because he never needed to be the star. A London-born Englishman who spent eighty-five years inside the theatre, he moved fluently between stage, screen, directing, and voice work, the mark of a genuine craftsman. Performers like him hold the scaffolding of a story together while the leads take the bows. That his voice was prized tells you everything about his classical training and the warmth in his delivery. Numbers and dates flatten a life like his; what lingers is the quiet authority of someone who served the play above himself for decades.

Name (English)

Douglas Seale

Name (Japanese)

ダグラス・シール

Reading

だぐらす・しーる

Born

October 28, 1913 – June 13, 1999

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

voice actor / stage actor / film producer / film director / film actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• voice actor
• stage actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.