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Harold Sakata

1920 - 1982

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Toshiyuki Sakata (坂田 敏行, Sakata Toshiyuki; July 1, 1920 – July 29, 1982), known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later became a popular professional wrestler under the ring name Tosh Togo, wrestling primarily for various National Wrestling Alliance territories as a tag team with Great Togo. Sakata also wrestled in Japan for the Japanese Wrestling Association between 1955 and 1957, and was an early mentor and sometimes-tag-partner to Rikidōzan. On the basis of his wrestling work, he was cast in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964) as the villain Oddjob, a role he would be closely associated with for the rest of his life. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). Harold Sakata is the 3,544th most popular actor (down from 2,284th in 2024), the 5,838th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,656th in 2019) and the 1,668th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Harold Sakata ranks 3,544 out of 13,578. Before him are Damian Lewis, Catherine Hicks, Doug McClure, Liane Haid, Charlene Tilton, and Jason Flemyng. After him are Ian Ziering, Gary Cole, Alan Tudyk, Charles Martin Smith, Daniel Duval, and Thomas Jane.

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Among people born in 1920, Harold Sakata ranks 257. Before him are Ronald Speirs, Frances Ames, Nadir Afonso, Silvestre Igoa, Machiko Hasegawa, and Chushiro Hayashi. After him are Siegfried Buback, Fedora Barbieri, Richard N. Frye, Hans Ørberg, Henry Eriksson, and Jacques Doniol-Valcroze. Among people deceased in 1982, Harold Sakata ranks 163. Before him are Dominique Dunne, Seraphim Rose, Ed Hamm, Ludwig Bieberbach, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, and Gábor Szabó. After him are Douglas Bader, Haskell Curry, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Rachel Cohen-Kagan, Alfons Dorfner, and Carmelo Robledo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Sakata ranks 5,838 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlene Tilton (1958), Katharine McPhee (1984), Richard Hartshorne (1899), John D. Rockefeller III (1906), Alfred Blalock (1899), and Ted Post (1918). After him are Cyrus McCormick (1809), Ian Ziering (1964), Taj Mahal (1942), Gary Cole (1956), Alan Tudyk (1971), and Charles Martin Smith (1953).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Harold Sakata ranks 1,668. Before him are Clarence Nash (1904), Paul Herman (1946), Odette Annable (1985), Catherine Hicks (1951), Doug McClure (1935), and Charlene Tilton (1958). After him are Ian Ziering (1964), Gary Cole (1956), Alan Tudyk (1971), Charles Martin Smith (1953), Thomas Jane (1969), and Tony Amendola (1951).

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