Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 17, 2022 23:37:56 GMT -5
www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-03-17/godzilla-franchise-actor-akira-takarada-passes-away-at-87/.183729
For many Godzilla fans here, you may be sad to hear that Akira Takarada (whose big break was as the main character Hideto Ogata in the 1954 classic Gojira) has sadly passed away today. He was also in several other Godzilla films (one of which I inducted into Monster Crap) so he should be very well known to Godzilla fans. Sadly, he is the last of the actors playing the main characters in that 1954 classic who was still alive (including the main guy that was in the Godzilla suit), so this is definitely the end of an era of maybe being able to meet any of those actors alive. He definitely lived a long life at 87 so let's remember the good times with him on this thread as well as the films he was in here.
For many Godzilla fans here, you may be sad to hear that Akira Takarada (whose big break was as the main character Hideto Ogata in the 1954 classic Gojira) has sadly passed away today. He was also in several other Godzilla films (one of which I inducted into Monster Crap) so he should be very well known to Godzilla fans. Sadly, he is the last of the actors playing the main characters in that 1954 classic who was still alive (including the main guy that was in the Godzilla suit), so this is definitely the end of an era of maybe being able to meet any of those actors alive. He definitely lived a long life at 87 so let's remember the good times with him on this thread as well as the films he was in here.
