Lam Pou-chuen

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Lam Pou-chuen (right) with Tōru Furuya in July 2006

Lam Pou-chuen ( Chinese  林 保全 , Pinyin Lín Bǎoquán ; born October 10, 1951 in the Portuguese colony of Macau ; † January 2, 2015 in Hong Kong ) was a Hong Kong- Chinese voice actor who began his career in 1971 and lasted for around thirty years Voice of Doraemon was. He also appeared as the spokesperson for numerous blockbusters in Cantonese .

Life

Lam Pou-chuen was born in 1951 in the Portuguese colony of Macau and came to Hong Kong, around 50 kilometers away, as a teenager, where he initially worked in a bank after graduating from school and started working for TVB in 1971 as a 20-year-old . His first work included dubbing the blue cat-like robot Doraemon , which he lent the voice for around thirty years. Through the synchronization of the most famous cartoon character in Asia, who has a similar level of awareness as Mickey Mouse in the western world, Po-chuen became one of the most famous voice actors and the voice with the highest recognition value in his home country.

He was also the voice of Genzo Wakabayashi in Captain Tsubasa , Kimio Nagasawa in Chibi Maruko Chan , Jiraiya in Naruto , Yamada-sensei in Nintama Rantarō , Hiei in Yū Yū Hakusho , Amuro Ray in Mobile Suit Gundam , Garfield in Garfield and his friends , as well as Squirtle in Pokémon . In addition to these more well-known characters, he gave his voice to over 100 other characters. After he left TVB in the 1980s, he returned to the station in 1993. He was the voice of He Shen in The Bronze Teeth and the sarcastic narrator in Neighborhood Treasures . He was also the Cantonese voice of actors like Sammo Hung and George Clooney . The film Stand By Me Doraemon , which will be released in Hong Kong in February 2015, will be the last work in which Lam Pou-chuen's voice can be heard.

On January 2, 2015, the voice actor, who had been suffering from diabetes for years , died in Hong Kong after he was found unconscious in his home by his family and after being escorted to Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital , where he was pronounced dead has been.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hong Kong's voice of Doraemon, Lam Pou-chuen, dies aged 63 , accessed January 3, 2015
  2. ↑ Beloved Doraemon voice actor Lam Po-chuen dies at 63 , accessed January 3, 2015
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lam is the family name here, Pou-chuen is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Lam, Pou-chuen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 林 保全 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese voice actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Macau
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2015
Place of death Hong Kong