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Haruo Nakajima

1929 - 2017

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Haruo Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 春雄, Hepburn: Nakajima Haruo; January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). Nakajima also played various other kaiju in Toho's tokusatsu films, including: Rodan (1956), Mothra (1961) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966) and also appeared in a minor roles in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo, and Stray Dog (his film debut). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Haruo Nakajima is the 3,441st most popular actor (down from 2,629th in 2019), the 1,105th most popular biography from Japan (down from 926th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among actors, Haruo Nakajima ranks 3,441 out of 13,578. Before him are Dora Gerson, Lydia Shum, Harry Morgan, Danai Gurira, Kim Coates, and Holly Marie Combs. After him are John Randolph, Keenan Wynn, Michel Auclair, Bob Peterson, Don Murray, and Milo Ventimiglia.

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Among people born in 1929, Haruo Nakajima ranks 296. Before him are Carlo Ubbiali, Ken McGregor, Ödön Földessy, Ruth Pfau, Hallgeir Brenden, and Rhadi Ben Abdesselam. After him are Don Murray, Hubert Dreyfus, Lúcio Lara, Jean Pickering, Henry E. Holt, and Johan Otto von Spreckelsen. Among people deceased in 2017, Haruo Nakajima ranks 281. Before him are Holger Czukay, Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Barbara Hale, Prodigy, Ruth Pfau, and Karl-Erik Nilsson. After him are Ulli Lommel, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles P. Thacker, Amotz Zahavi, Anne-Marie Colchen, and Björn Granath.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Haruo Nakajima ranks 1,105 out of 6,245. Before him are Ryuichi Sugiyama (1941), Mayumi Kaji (1964), Chishū Ryū (1904), Maruyama Ōkyo (1733), Chiaki Mukai (1952), and Yumi Watanabe (1970). After him are Naohiro Oyama (1974), Shigeharu Ueki (1954), Yuji Nakayoshi (1972), Tamotsu Suzuki (1947), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), and Ichirō Ozawa (1942).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Haruo Nakajima ranks 43. Before him are Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Chieko Baisho (1941), Ken Ogata (1937), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Yoko Shimada (1953), and Chishū Ryū (1904). After him are Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), Norio Wakamoto (1945), Akira Terao (1947), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Kiyoshi Atsumi (1928), and Kazuhiko Inoue (1954).

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