Apparently, one of Tezuka Osamu's childhood friends had a dent in the back of his head that looked like you could stand a candle in it. Tezuka Osamu used this friend as a model to create his inimitable, larger-than-life villain, Acetylene Lamp. The character had already displayed his talents as an imposingly unscrupulous journalist in Tezuka Osamu's pre-debut study "Lost World: Private Edition", and he subsequently established his position as a top-ranking gangster in the back streets of Tezuka Osamu's Manga works. Whilst the candle on his head lends him a very comic-book-character appearance, he gave superlative performances in serious roles, and the intensely evil aura that he spread in his performance as Lamp, the Far East Chief of German Intelligence in "The Stories of Three Adolfs", is unforgettable.
List of the works
COMIC
1948
Jungle Kingdom (as the member of the film crew)
1948
The Musked Adventure Kid (as the gangster)
1948
King Rocket (as Lackey of King Rocket)
1948
The world 1000 years After
1948
Lost World (as the newspaper reporter)
1949
Man with a Tail (as the investigater)
1949
Metropolis (as the mamber of the "Red Party")
1950
Golden City (as the passenger on a ship)
1950
The Wonderful Journey (as the psychiatrist)
1950
The Plain of Avusegahara (as Shuma Yagyu)
1950
Manga University (as the newspaper reporter)
1951
Next World (as the tramp)
1951
Queer Arabian Nights (as the guard)
1952
A Man From Mars
1952
The Adventure of Rock (participating in a conference with Bird Man)
1953
X-Point on the South Pacific (Max Tett)
1953
The Monster on the 38th Parallel (as the policeman)
1953
Cyrano, the Hero
1955
Astro Boy / Rejuvenating Gas (as the spectator of the Robotting)
1955
Astro Boy / The Frozen Man(as Grave robber)
1955
Tonkara Valley Story (as human trader)
1955
The age of Great Floods (as the prison breaker)
1955
Soyokaze-san (as the teacher)
1956
Astro Boy / Atlas(as the white man)
1956
Lion Books /Spaceport(as the hotel manager)
1957
Lion Books / Multiple-Eyed Devil(as the murderer)
1957
Lion Books / Bullet Hole in the Wilderness(as the murderer)
1957
Kokeshi Detective bureau (as Bokutaro's father)
1957
The Earth War (as First Lieutenant Lamp)
1958
Astro Boy / Cruciform
1958
The Three Who Glimpse The Future (as the subordinate of Red)
1959
Merchant of Venice (as Shine Rock)
1959
HIKARI
1959
Cave-in (as Maebashi)
1959
My Memory
1960
Secret Order No.3
1960
Dream of the Universe
1962
The Iron Road / as the member of Tan-Men
1962
SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll
1962
Two Minus Two Equals Two
1963
SF Fancy Free / Green outskirts(as Abe)
1964
Astro Boy / The Bad Men's Robot(as the Villain)
1964
The Great Zeo (as the secretary of the minister?)
1965
Astro Boy / Heros of Tezuka Osamu Manga(as the member of secret police)
1965
Amazing Three (as chief of the secret police force)
1966
Flying Ben (as the teacher)
1967
Astro Boy / The Treasures of Zolomon
1967
Astro Boy / Chronicles of Astro Boy (as the industrial spy)
1967
Dororo (as the local magistrate)
1968
Swallowing the Earth (as the husband of Zephyrus)
1969
The Crater / The Octagonal Mansion (as the robber)
1969
The Crater / Sergeant Okuno (as the public official?)
1969
The Crater / The Two-Headed Snake (as the member of The Two-Headed Snake)
1969
The Crater / The Bell Rings (as the wife of Ham Egg!?)
1969
Green outskirts (as Abe)
1969
Kand of Tigermen (as the presenter of the "world cruel show")
1969
The Runaway Tanker (as the vice president of Bagdad Oil Company)
1970
Gachaboi's record of one generation
1971
Lion Books / Mirage (as the men of Shinji's brother)
1971
Lion Books / Serenade of Pig's navel (as the member of "Hidoro Gumi")
1972
Lion Books / Mother River (as the member of the theatrical group Ichimura Yoko)
1972
Lion Books / The March Covered with Mud (as the journalist)
1972
Lion Books / Sweet Smell of Success (as the policeman)
1973
Lion Books / The Distant Planet(as the New York police)
1973
AKUEMON (as the lackey of the General)
1973
Black Jack / Where is a doctor! (as the detective)
1973
Black Jack / Man Bird (as the spectator in a "flying man" competition contest)
1974
Black Jack / Lost Memory (as burglar)
1974
Black Jack / Dead Twice (as the juror)
1974
Black Jack / Sometime Like Pearls (as the passenger on a train)
1974
Black Jack / Pug-Nosed Patient (as the public inspector)
1974
Black Jack / Two Loves (as the customer at a sushi bar)
1974
Lunatic Japan (as the jornalist)
1974
Shumari (as Sekiguchi Ango)
1975
Black Jack / Stradivarius (as the passenger on a airplane)
1975
Black Jack / Neelde (as the patient)
1975
Black Jack / Broken In to Little Pieces (as the president)
1975
Black Jack / Temporary Love (as the priest)
1975
Black Jack / Swindler Apprentice (as the friend of the father)
1975
The Three-eyed One / Secretine Glebe (as the director of CIA)
1975
The Lower Angel (as the laborer)
1975
Astro Boy / Astro BoyII (as the prime minister)
1975
Rainbow Prelude
1976
Black Jack / Pinoko Goes to West (as the police)
1976
Black Jack / Never Give Up (as the company president)
1976
Black Jack / Vibrations (as the passenger on the Bullet Train)
1976
Black Jack / Promise (as the police)
1976
The Three-eyed One / Prince of the Underground World
1976
Astro Boy / Astro Boy Fights Computer (as the examiner)
1977
Black Jack / Lost Youth (as Zetto Ring)
1977
Black Jack / Hot Night (as Douglas)
1977
The Three-eyed One / Godal (as the police)
1977
The Three-eyed One / More (Adolf)
1978
Black Jack / Outlawina Ghost Town (as Tom)
1978
Black Jack / Light Figers (as the police inspector Tomobiki)
1978
Futureman Kaos (as the director of Bakara Satllite)
1979
NEC Advertisment
1981
Rainbow Parakeet / Hamlet
1981
Rainbow Parakeet / Forest of fossil (as Asechi)
1982
Rainbow Parakeet /We are not angels
1985
Goodbye, Night (as the teacher)
1988
History of the National High School Baseball Championship
