Akihiko Hirata

Born 1927-12-26, 日本, 東京都, Died 1984-07-25

Akihiko Hirata (born 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.

Godzilla

Godzilla (1954) as Daisuke Serizawa
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) as Dr. Shosuke Shigezawa
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) as Chief Detective Okita
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) as Red Bamboo Captain Ryui
Son of Godzilla (1967) as Fujisaki
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) as Professor Hideto Miyajima
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) as Dr. Shinzô Mafune
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) as Dr. Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage)