Haruo Nakajima, was a Japanese actor, best known for portraying who, in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original "Godzilla" (1954) until "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972)?
Godzilla Godzilla (Japanese: ゴジラ , Hepburn: Gojira ) ( ; ] ) is a giant monster originating from a series of tokusatsu films of the same name from Japan. It first appeared in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film "Godzilla". Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in numerous media including video games, novels, comic books, television shows, 29 films produced by Toho and three Hollywood films. The character is commonly alluded by the epithet "King of the Monsters"; a phrase first used in "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!", the Americanized version of Honda's original 1954 film.
Zilla (TriStar Godzilla) Zilla (ジラ , Jira ) is a film monster that first appeared as the title character in TriStar Pictures' 1998 film "Godzilla". It was initially created as a reimagining of Godzilla; however after 2004, Toho (the Godzilla IP owners) began trademarking future incarnations of TriStar's Godzilla as "Zilla", with only the incarnations from the 1998 film and "" retaining the Godzilla copyright and trademark.