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.

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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

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

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

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Seale
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2441446

Tags

• voice actor
• stage actor
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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