Shūsei Nakamura was a Japanese actor and voice actor born Hideo Nakamura on March 9, 1935, in Tokyo Prefecture. He died on July 30, 2014. Throughout his career, he was represented by 81 Produce and later Production Baobab.

Nakamura began his entertainment career as a stage actor, training in Kyoto with the theater company Gekidan Kurumiza before moving to Tokyo in 1956 to pursue a career as a New Theatre director. He studied at the Haikyūza Art Institute and later joined the Shinen Gekijo theater group, where he trained in the Stanislavski system. He made his voice acting debut in 1959 with the Japanese dub of the television series Rawhide, and he was a founding member of the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society in 1960. Although he was a founding figure in the voice acting industry, he always considered voice work to be just one part of his craft as an actor, and he was known for his strong commitment to his performances.

Nakamura's first lead role in an anime was as Taro Hayabusa in the 1967 television series Skyers 5. He is perhaps best known for two iconic roles from the late 1960s and early 1970s. He played the tragic boxer Tōru Rikiishi in the seminal series Ashita no Joe. He also began his long-running role as Daisuke Shima, the loyal helmsman, in the Space Battleship Yamato franchise. He reprised this role in numerous Yamato productions, including the films Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato, Be Forever Yamato (titled in Japanese as Yamato yo Towa ni), and Final Yamato.

His other notable anime roles include Coach Hongo in Attack No. 1, the Narrator and Emperor Muge Zorbados in Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God, and Tahoumaru in Dororo. The specific roles of the Narrator in Roppo Yabure-kun, Artifind in Nora, Charles Ingalls in Laura, a Little Girl on the Prairie, and Captain Alexander Smollett in Treasure Island, as listed in the query, could not be independently verified in the available search results.

Beyond anime, Nakamura was highly active in voice-over work for foreign films and television dramas. He was the regular Japanese-dubbing voice for actor Robert Wagner in several films. His extensive dubbing credits include Virgil Brigman (Ed Harris) in The Abyss, Cain (John Hurt) in the 1980 Fuji TV edition of Alien, and roles in films such as Kramer vs. Kramer and The Guns of Navarone. In tokusatsu, he provided the voice for the titular character in the 1973 series Robot Detective.

In his later years, Nakamura dedicated time to teaching the next generation of voice actors as an instructor at the Tokyo Announce Gakuin and Yoyogi Animation Gakuin, and he also ran his own voice-acting塾. He retired from regular voice acting work in the early 2000s due to health issues. He made a brief return to narration in 2011 for a documentary and for a special program related to the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 series in 2012.