Tragic news out of Mexico: one of the country’s most successful voice actors and dubbing artists, Luis Alfonso Mendoza, was murdered in the Mexico City neighborhood of Portales Norte on Saturday afternoon. He was 55 years old.
Mendoza was the Spanish voice of Gohan on Dragon Ball, a role he’d held since 1996, as well as Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. (It should be noted that he did the Latin America Spanish dubs, and that there are also European Spanish dubs for these same characters.)
According to media reports (in Spanish), Mendoza was killed during a dispute with a tenant who was renting studio space from him. The assailant also murdered Mendoza’s wife, Lourdes Adame, and brother-in-law. The attacker, who subsequently shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt, is alive, in “serious condition.”
