Haruo Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 春雄, Hepburn: Nakajima Haruo, January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017)[2] was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). Nakajima also played various other kaiju in Toho's tokusatsu films, including: Rodan (1956), Mothra (1961) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966) and also appeared in a minor role in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954).
^Ryfle, Steve (1998). Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G". ECW Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 9781550223484.
^Yuri Kageyama (August 8, 2017). "Original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima dies". BBC News. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
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Akihiko Hirata, and Beverly Maeda, with Hiroshi Sekita, Seiji Onaka, and HaruoNakajima as Godzilla, and Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla. Son of Godzilla received...
Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, and Takashi Shimura, with HaruoNakajima as Godzilla and Katsumi Tezuka as Anguirus. In the film, Japan struggles...
flight sequences. During suitmation sequences, Rodan was portrayed by HaruoNakajima, who almost drowned when the wires holding the 150 lb. suit above a...
Amamoto, with special effects by Honda and Teruyoshi Nakano, and features HaruoNakajima as Godzilla, Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla, and Yasuhiko Kakuyuki as...
Reason, Linda Miller, Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Eisei Amamoto, with HaruoNakajima as King Kong and Hiroshi Sekita as Mechani-Kong and Gorosaurus. The...
being a hybrid of Godzilla and a kappa of Japanese folklore. Suit actor HaruoNakajima, having already portrayed Godzilla four years prior, was the first suit...
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Co., Ltd, it stars Kōzō Nomura, Ayumi Sonoda, and Koreya Senda, with HaruoNakajima as Varan. In the film, a reporter's investigation into two mysterious...
Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara, with Yû Sekida as Sanda and HaruoNakajima as Gaira. In the film, scientists investigate the sudden appearance...
Tsubono as Special Police Force Ikio Sawamura as Farmer with rocks HaruoNakajima as Godzilla Hiroshi Sekita as Anguirus Marchan the Dwarf as Minilla...
Akihiko Hirata, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Susumu Fujita, and Takashi Shimura, with HaruoNakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as Mogera. In the film, Earth's defense forces unite...
Godzilla vs. Hedorah, opposite HaruoNakajima as Godzilla. He went on to play Gigan in two further Godzilla films. When Nakajima retired from the Godzilla...
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