Akihiko Hirata
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Sanjuro
as Samurai 1962
King Kong vs. Godzilla
as Dr. Shigezawa 1962
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage) 1995
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
as Dr. Serizawa 1956
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Chief Detective Okita 1964
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
as Professor Hideto Miyajima 1974
King Kong vs. Godzilla
as Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited) 1963
Terror of Mechagodzilla
as Dr. Shinzô Mafune 1975
Son of Godzilla
as Fujisaki 1967
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
as Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage) (uncredited) 2002
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
as Red Bamboo Captain Ryui 1966
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Seijuro Yoshioka 1954
Rodan
as Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi 1956
Mothra
as Doctor 1961
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Seijuro Yoshioka 1955
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Seijuro Yoshioka (uncredited) 1956