José Lavat (September 28, 1948 – May 15, 2018) was a prominent and talented Mexican voice actor, stage and television actor, and announcer with a 51-year career.
He was the recurring voice of Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Ian McKellen, Al Pacino, Christopher Lee, Liam Neeson, and Morgan Freeman. In anime, he was known for narrating all the series in the Dragon Ball franchise (with the exception of the first 60 episodes of Dragon Ball and the last 55 episodes of Dragon Ball GT), as well as narrating Slam Dunk.
He also stood out for his work as the voice of Captain Georg Von Trapp in the famous musical film The Sound of Music, dubbing the character in both dubbed versions of the film, as well as in its anime adaptation.
He was the announcer for the Cinemax Latin America channel and also for the radio station Imagen 90.5 FM in Mexico, in addition to being the institutional voice of Radio Concierto in Chile since 2000, a job for which he became very well known in that country during the four stages that the radio went through in the first decade of the millennium, making himself present with the slogans: "The radio of today", "Concierto present in your memory", "The voice of the 80s and more recently "Concierto, 88.5, only great songs".
