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Godzilla is dead!
Haruo Nakajima, actor who played the original Godzilla, dies aged 88
Haruo Nakajima, the actor who first portrayed Japanese movie monster Godzilla, has died aged 88. His daughter Sonoe confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying that Nakajima had died of pneumonia after being hospitalised last month.
Donning the Godzilla costume for the first 12 films in the long-running series, the Japanese actor also appeared in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and a number of Japanese war films.
Nakajima was born on 1 January 1929 in Yamagata, Japan. Contracted to Toho Studios, the actor first performed stunt roles in a number of samurai and war films, appearing as a pilot in a burning aeroplane in Eagle of the Pacific and a bandit in Seven Samurai.
Nakajima’s most famous work though came in the Godzilla films. His first appearance was in 1954’s Godzilla, for which he had to wear a 220-pound concrete bodysuit, due to a scarcity of rubber in post-war Japan. As well as being painfully heavy, the suit would become hot under the studio lights. “I stuck a thermometer inside the suit; 140 degrees,” Nakajima told CBS News in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/08/haruo-nakajima-actor-who-played-the-original-godzilla-dies-aged-88
Haruo Nakajima, the actor who first portrayed Japanese movie monster Godzilla, has died aged 88. His daughter Sonoe confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying that Nakajima had died of pneumonia after being hospitalised last month.
Donning the Godzilla costume for the first 12 films in the long-running series, the Japanese actor also appeared in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and a number of Japanese war films.
Nakajima was born on 1 January 1929 in Yamagata, Japan. Contracted to Toho Studios, the actor first performed stunt roles in a number of samurai and war films, appearing as a pilot in a burning aeroplane in Eagle of the Pacific and a bandit in Seven Samurai.
Nakajima’s most famous work though came in the Godzilla films. His first appearance was in 1954’s Godzilla, for which he had to wear a 220-pound concrete bodysuit, due to a scarcity of rubber in post-war Japan. As well as being painfully heavy, the suit would become hot under the studio lights. “I stuck a thermometer inside the suit; 140 degrees,” Nakajima told CBS News in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/08/haruo-nakajima-actor-who-played-the-original-godzilla-dies-aged-88
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You were the ONLY Godzilla that scared the devil out of me...
You must have beat my post by minutes
We have the almost exact same title as well
