Takkō Ishimori

 Takkō Ishimori  (石森達幸 Ishimori Takkō, born in 1932) is a voice actor from Nagasaki, Japan. He was the voice of Santa Claus in Pokémon. He also did the Japanese dubbing for the Sorting Hat in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” and Duke in “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”.