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.

Known For

Godzilla

as Daisuke Serizawa

Sanjuro

as Samurai

King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Dr. Shigezawa

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

as Dr. Serizawa

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

as Chief Detective Okita

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

as Professor Hideto Miyajima

King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited)

Terror of Mechagodzilla

as Dr. Shinzô Mafune

Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla

as Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage) (uncredited)