Akihiko Hirata

Birthday

1927-12-26

Place of Birth

Seoul, Korea

Biography

Akihiko Hirata ( Hirata Akihiko ) (26 December 1927–25 July 1984) was a Japanese film actor. While Hirata starred in many movies (including Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai trilogy), he is most well known for his work in the kaiju genre, including such films as King Kong vs. Godzilla, The Mysterians, and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa, the brilliant but disturbed young scientist in the original Godzilla, released in 1954. Hirata died after a long battle with lung cancer in 1984, at age 56. Description above from the Wikipedia article Akihiko Hirata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

1995 6.9
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage)

1995
Ultraman

Ultraman

1966 7.9
Ultraman

as Dr. Iwamoto

1966
Whirlwind

Whirlwind

1964 6.5
Whirlwind

as Ryutaro Inoue

1964
Mothra

Mothra

1961 6.5
Mothra

as Doctor

1961
The H-Man

The H-Man

1959 6
The H-Man

as Inspector Tominaga

1959
Rodan

Rodan

1957 6.2
Rodan

as Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi

1957
The Mysterians

The Mysterians

1957 6.1
The Mysterians

as Ryoichi Shiraishi

1957