Hiroshi Kondō
Born: 1925-08-04 in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
Died: 1992-04-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hiroshi Kondō (August 4, 1925 – April 28, 1992) was a Japanese actor. He was born in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Arts at Nihon University’s College of Arts and Sciences (now the Faculty of Arts). He joined Toho in 1944. He left Toho in 1953 and became a freelancer. He joined Nikkatsu in 1955. After that, he was affiliated with the Screenwriters and Literary Artists Association. He was active primarily as a villain, mainly in action films. From the late 1960s, he made a full-scale move into television dramas, playing a variety of roles as a supporting actor. He died of acute cardiopulmonary failure at Tokyo Medical University Hospital on April 28, 1992.
Filmography
1992
1990
- Special Rescue Police Winspector as Rokusuke Akai
1988
- Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You as Officer
1987
1984
- Ana as Assemblyman Shimoda
1981
1980
- Port Arthur as Hisanao Oshima
- The Revolt
- The Claws of the Divine Beast
- Before Spring
1976
- Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex as Tetsuji Hayakawa
- Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger? as Tatsuzaki
1975
- The Bullet Train as Matsubara
- Graveyard of Honor as Deputy Chief of Police
- Wolf Guy as Yoshiyuki Fukunaka
- 13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Taizo Ebihara
- Karate Bear Fighter
- 300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
- The Man Gang as Prison Director
1974
- Sister Street Fighter as Li Gyokudo
- The Beast Shall Die
- Violent Fraternity
1973
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro as Tohei
- Gang Warfare
1971
1970
1969
- Family Crest: Die Like a Man as Major Muto
- Outlaw: Kill! as Chôji Kaseda
- Ruthless Gambler
- Penitentiary Brothers as Takita
- Fill the Cup with Blood
1968
- Three Rogues
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
- Lost Virgin as Iwami
- Diamonds of the Andes
- Duel in the Storm as Tamezo Hondo
1967
- Organized Violence II as Manager of Sakaki-Gimi A
- My Sweetheart as Nakagawa
- Organized Violence
- Immortal Guy
1966
1965
1964
1963
- Beyond the Green Hills
- Under the Roof of Young Tokyo as Jiro Kuwano (Fukiko's second eldest brother)
- Fight of the Gamblers
- The Symbol of a Man as Yuzo
- The Dragon Crest
- Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou
- The Sea of Eden
1962
1961
- Tokyo Knights as Shoji
- The Famous Wanderer
- The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass as Kyûsuke Akita
- The Black Scar
- Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains
- The Rambler under the Southern Cross
- Standing Towards the Great Forest
- Doing What I Please
- Ginza Whirlwind: The Call of the Storm
- Kitakami Nocturne
- The Plateau Man
- Joe of Aces: Give and Take
- Kusa wo karu musume
1960
1959
- Light The Explosives as Tomioka (Technical official, Kanagawa Prefectural Port Division)
- Passport to Darkness
- The Fugitive
- A Turning to Hell as Hachirô
- The Wild Reporter
- Wounded Beast
- A Killed Stewardess: White or Black as Oishi Reporter
1958
- Underworld Beauty as Arita
- The Trap as Takaoka Kakuji
- Voice Without a Shadow as Kobayashi
- The Coming of Age
- Moon Over the Abandoned Castle
- The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Ken
- Wolves of the Night
- Ama Reef
1957
- Stepbrothers as Kojiro, second son of Kido
- Eight Hours of Terror as Saburô Kimizuka
- Shiroi natsu
- Joshiryōsai
- Saigo no totsugeki
1955
- The Wolves
- The Motherless as Akira
1953
1952
- Shanghai Rose as Japanese Marine officer
1950
- Till We Meet Again
- Tokyo Gate as Ginza Minpo Company Employee B
1947
- Spring Awakens as Kunio Takemura