# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-nishimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:23:40.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiroyuki-nishimoto"
name: "Hiroyuki Nishimoto"
slug: "hiroyuki-nishimoto"
description: "Hiroyuki Nishimoto  was a Japanese actor and voice actor. He began acting in the theatre company Bungakuza and later co-founded Gekidan Kumo in 1963. Nishimoto then joined Theatre Company Subaru in 1976. He provided the voice of Snufkin in the television adaptions of Moomin, a book series and comic strip by Tove Jansson. Nishimoto was also known for dubbing the Japanese language versions of many Disney films. He died of an aortic dissection on April 19, 2015, aged 88."
tagline: "Japanese actor and seiyū"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-01-03"
deathDate: "2015-04-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0632734/"
    handle:    "nm0632734"
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    title: "هيرويوكى نيشيموتو"
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    title: "Hiroyuki Nishimoto"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Hiroyuki Nishimoto"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump