Akihiko Hirata
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.
Filmography
Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage) (uncredited)
Daisuke Serizawa
Dr. Shigezawa
Red Bamboo Captain Ryui
Seijuro Yoshioka
Seijuro Yoshioka
Seijuro Yoshioka (uncredited)
Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage)
Mu Agent #23
Inspector Tominaga
Ryoichi Shiraishi
Professor Hideto Miyajima
Geki Kurokawa
Doctor
Endô
Dr. Sugata
Dr. Shinzô Mafune
Dr. Serizawa
Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi
Senda's Aide
Captain Gomes
Captain Roper
Chamberlain
Eburi's older brother
Arishima
Space Command official
Count Arishima
Sohei Masui
Dr. Serizawa
Tomonori
Inspector Kobayashi
Komori
City Employee
Akaboshi
Ryutaro Inoue
Tomita
Dr. Inoue Ryutarou
Suwa Yorishige
Staff Officer Tsunoda
Defense Countermeasure Supreme Commander Oshi
Nozaki
Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group
Detective Makimo
Chief Detective Okita
Dr. Serizawa
Fujisaki
Samurai
Dr. Fujimora
Hayatonosho 'Hayato' Susukida
Jiro Hidekuni
Sashichi
Professor Iwamoto (uncredited)
Susumu Tendo
Kishimoto
Sugimoto
Kan Aizawa
Dr. Fujimora
Yamaoka (Sandaime)
Dr. Kudo
First lieutenant Noguchi
Toriumi
Kibino Takehiko
Kozo Kinugawa
Fleet Staff Officer
Staff Officer Watanabe
Shima
Asakura
Horikoshi no Masakichi
Man With Turkish Hat
Gaishi Nagaoka
Asakawa
Environmental scientist #1
Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited)
Kozo Miyoshi
Captain Sugiyama
Producer
Shunsuke Iba
戸井田教授
Ryusaku Nishikawa
Botanist
Dr. Kyuichiro Kashiwagi
Journalist
Secretary Asano
Otaki (President of Otaki Construction)
Iwafune
Rokusuke Sakai (CM Song Lyricist)
Junkichi Nakata
Henchman Ken
