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)?
Haruo Nakajima Haruo Nakajima (中島 春雄 , Nakajima Haruo ) (January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) was a Japanese actor, best known for portraying Godzilla in twelve consecutive films, starting from the original "Godzilla" (1954) until "Godzilla vs. Gigan" (1972). He also played various other giant monsters in kaiju films, including "Mothra" and "The War of the Gargantuas", and also appeared in a minor role in the Akira Kurosawa film "Seven Samurai".
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.