William Frederick Knight

William Frederick Knight was an American actor who worked mainly as a voice performer, dubbing anime and video games into English and sometimes billed as William Knight or Frederick Knight. Directors frequently placed him as a wise old man, among them Daisuke Aramaki in Ghost in the Shell, Gordon Rosewater in The Big O, an elderly character in Paranoia Agent and Kuzemi, one of the three Sages in Eureka Seven. His dubbing work took in the anime Fake (1996) and the films Akira, Metropolis, Appleseed and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, and he voiced Danzo Shimura throughout the Naruto series and characters in the Ghost in the Shell games, The Darkness and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. In live-action television and short films he played similar figures, among them The League of STEAM, and he was a recurring sketch performer on Attack of the Show and Dhar Mann. He died in 2022.