Tanie Kitabayashi
1911-05-21 ( 113 years old ) in Tokyo, Japan

Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.

Movies

Resurrection 2003-01-18
Rainbow Kids 1991-01-15
Rikyu 1989-09-15
Haze of Love 1985-01-03
Our Teacher 1983-08-24
Amagi Pass 1983-02-19
Suspicion 1982-09-11
Station 1981-11-07
Gassan 1979-10-20
Nomugi Pass 1979-06-30
Never Give Up 1978-10-07
The Wild Daisy 1977-07-09
The Possessed 1976-10-16
Price of Life 1971-07-24
Dorei kōjō 1968-01-25
Song of Love 1967-04-29
Blood and Sea 1965-10-01
The Long Death 1964-04-12
The Third Will 1963-03-31
Bad Girl 1963-03-16
Ashita au hito 1962-09-16
Foundry Town 1962-04-08
Ningen Gari 1962-01-23
Buddha 1961-10-31
Enraptured 1961-04-18
Blind Devotion 1961-03-08
Bonchi 1960-04-14
The Human Wall 1959-10-18
Odd Obsession 1959-06-23
Conflagration 1958-09-22
Stakeout 1958-01-15
Chance Meeting 1958-01-15
Hole in One 1957-09-15
Actress 1956-11-27
Summer Storm 1956-10-01
How Sorrowful 1956-09-07
Our Town 1956-08-28
Love is Lost 1956-02-05
The Motherless 1955-12-04
The Heart 1955-08-31
The Wolves 1955-07-03
The Maid's Kid 1955-06-28
A Billionaire 1954-11-22
Tomoshibi 1954-06-22
Before Dawn 1953-10-13
Yokubo 1953-05-13
Miniature 1953-04-01
The Bitch 1951-08-10
男の哀愁 1951-04-13
Koibito 1951-03-10
White Beast 1950-06-03
Scandal 1950-04-26