Ahn Ji-hwan
Ahn Ji-hwan is a South Korean voice actor, actor and television and radio presenter who joined Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation's Voice Acting Division in 1993 and debuted with his role as Prince Dandarn on the Korean dub of Time Travel Tondekeman.
Since the early 2000s, Ji-hwan has narrated several entertaining shows at Seoul Broadcasting System, including Animal Farm, The Music Trend, and Star King. In June 2012, the voice actor made his stage debut, performing the part of Edna Turnblad in a South Korean musical Hairspray based on a 1988 film under the same title.
Ji-hwan has become famous for his cover of Johnny Depp on the Korean dub of ', for his role as Det. Danny Messer on the Korean dub of ', and, even more recently, for his narration of The Knee-Drop Guru on a South Korean talk show Golden Fishery.
Career
Voice acting
TV animation dubbing
- Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden Victory
- * Black Bomber
- Fantomcat
- * Fantomcat
- Flower Witch Mary Bell
- * Takuro
- Future GPX Cyber Formula
- * Bleed Kaga
- Galaxy Express 999
- * Count Mecha
- Hamtaro
- * Dexter
- Iron Man #28 FX
- * Franken
- Miracle Girls
- * Chris Kubrick
- Olympus Guardian
- * Hercules
- The Prince of Tennis
- * Kunimitsu Tezuka
- Red Baron
- * Kômei Ryû
- * Narrator
- Rolling Stars
- * Narrator
- Slam Dunk
- * Akira Sendoh
- * Kiminobu Kogure
- * Narrator
- Time Travel Tondekeman
- * Prince Dandarn
Animated movie dubbing
1990s
2010s
Film dubbing
A
- All the Pretty Horses
- * Matt Damon as John Grady Cole
- Armageddon
- * Ben Affleck as A. J. Frost
B
- Bad Boys II
- * Martin Lawrence as Detective Marcus Burnett
- Big Daddy
- * Adam Sandler as Sonny Koufax
C
- A Chinese Ghost Story
- * Leslie Cheung as Ning Choi-san
- A Chinese Ghost Story Part II
- * Leslie Cheung as Ning Choi-san
- Click
- * Adam Sandler as Michael Newman
- Cold Mountain
- * Jude Law as W.P. Inman
- Con Air
- * John Cusack as US Marshal Vince Larkin
- Contact
- * Matthew McConaughey as Palmer Joss
D
- Double Team
- * Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jack Paul Quinn
E
- Enemy at the Gates
- * Jude Law as Vassili Zaitsev
H
- Heat
- * Val Kilmer as Chris Shiherlis
- Hero
- * Jet Li as Nameless
- House of Flying Daggers
- * Andy Lau as Liu
I
- Inner Senses
- * Leslie Cheung as Jim Law
- The Italian Job
- * Edward Norton as Steve
L
- * Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
M
- Meltdown
- * Jet Li as Kit Li
- * Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
N
- Nick of Time
- * Johnny Depp as Gene Watson
P
- * Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
R
- Red Cliff
- * Tony Leung as Zhou Yu
- Rogue Trader
- * Ewan McGregor as Nick Leeson
- The Rundown
- * Dwayne Johnson as Beck
S
- Samurai Fiction
- * Tomoyasu Hotei as Rannosuke Kazamatsuri
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- * Jude Law as Sky Captain
- Snatch
- * Brad Pitt as Mickey O'Neil
- Star Wars
- * Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
- * Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
T
- The Thomas Crown Affair
- * Pierce Brosnan as Thomas Crown
- Top Gun
- * Tom Cruise as LT Pete "Maverick" Mitchell
V
- Vanilla Sky
- * Tom Cruise as David Aames
Y
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan
- * Adam Sandler as Zohan Dvir/Scrappy Coco
Foreign TV show dubbing
- 24
- * Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer
- Band of Brothers
- * Matthew Settle as Ronald Speirs
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- * Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
- The Client
- * David Barry Gray as Clint McGuire
- * Carmine Giovinazzo as Det. Danny Messer
- The Fugitive
- * Tim Daly as Richard Kimble
- Heroes
- * Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- * Dean Cain as Himself
- Smallville
- * Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
Narrations
- 5th Republic
- Animal Farm
- Crisis Escape No. 1
- Global Report
- Golden Fishery
- * Narrator of the segment "The Knee-Drop Guru "
- ** January 3, 2007 - October 12, 2011
- ** November 29, 2012 - August 22, 2013
- Live Show: Friday Wide
- * Narrator of the segment "Appetizing Trips with Sayuri Fujita "
- Martian Virus
- MBC News Desk
- * News presenter
- The Music Trend
- * Stage presenter
- Our Sunday Night
- * Narrator of the segment "Love House"
- Section TV Entertainment Telecommunications
- * News presenter
- Star King
TV appearances
1990s
2000s
2010s
Radio appearances
2000s
2010s
Stage appearance
Awards
Korean Broadcasting Awards
Korean Broadcasting Producer Awards
MBC Drama Awards
SBS Awards
Trivia
- According to the Revised Romanization of Korean, Ji-hwan's full name should be written as An Ji-hwan. However, the full name entitled above is in deference to the way Ji-hwan spells his name.
- His daughter is Melody Day member Yein.