Tanie Kitabayashi
Tanie Kitabayashi was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950.
Tanie Kitabayashi
産業経済新聞社（Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd.） · 『サンケイグラフ』1955年5月1日号、産業経済新聞社 ”The Sankei Graphic”, Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd. 1955. · Public domain
- Name
- Tanie Kitabayashi
- Birth Name
- Reiko Andou
- Born
- 21 May 1911
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- 27 April 2010
- Occupation
- Actress
- Full name
- Reiko Ando.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Honours
- Medal with Purple Ribbon and Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress.
- Languages
- Japanese.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Tanie Kitabayashi was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre Company, founded in 1950.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Tanie Kitabayashi. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q3547309 · wikipedia · Tanie Kitabayashi
In this article
Biography
Biography
Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. 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.
『女中ッ子』（1955年）の撮影現場。田坂具隆監督と北林谷栄。
産業経済新聞社（Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd.） · 『サンケイグラフ』1955年5月1日号、産業経済新聞社 ”The Sankei Graphic”, Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd. 1955.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Tanie Kitabayashi • Birth Name — Reiko Andou • Born — 21 May 1911 • Birthplace — Tokyo, Japan • Died — 27 April 2010 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1936–2003
Television
Television
• Shiroi Kyotō (1978) – Ume Yamada
Japanese dub
Japanese dub
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, dub in 1958) - The Evil Queen
Identity
Identity
Tanie Kitabayashi is recorded as having received Medal with Purple Ribbon and Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actress. Recorded at birth as Reiko Ando.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 2 entries
1911
Tanie Kitabayashi born at Tokyo.
2010
Tanie Kitabayashi died at Tokyo.
Films
• Children of Hiroshima (1952) • Epitome (1953) • Life of a Woman (1953) • Wolf (1955) • Mahiru no ankoku (1956) • Shirogane Shinjū (1956) • An Actress (1956) • The Hole (1957) • Yūrakuchō de Aimashō (1957) • Enjō (1958) • Kiku to Isamu (1959) • My Second Brother (1959) • Odd Obsession (1959) • Sleeping Beauty (1960) • Foundry Town (1962) • The Insect Woman (1963) • Bad Girl (1963) • The Human Bullet (1968) • Apart from Life (1970) • Proof of the Man (1977) • Nomugi Pass (1979) • Station (1981) • Suspicion (1982) • The Burmese Harp (1985) • My Neighbor Totoro (1988) – Kanta's grandmother (voice) • Rikyu (1989) – Ōmandokoro • Rainbow Kids (1991) – Mrs. Toshiko Yanagawa • Yomigaeri (2002) • Letters from the Mountains (2002)
Honours
• Medal with Purple Ribbon (1978)
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
37,409 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Tania MalletPerson
- Tania RaymondePerson
- Tania SaulnierPerson
- Tania WeberPerson
- Tanikella BharaniPerson
- Tanima SenPerson
- Tanio BocciaPerson
- TanishaaPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Tanie Kitabayashi?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.