Akihiko Hirata Biography

Akihiko Hirata (平田昭彦, Hirata Akihiko) (26 December 1927–25 July 1984) was a Japanese film actor. While the actor 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 of lung cancer in 1984, at age 56.

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