# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/haruo-nakajima
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:30:45.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/haruo-nakajima"
name: "Haruo Nakajima"
slug: "haruo-nakajima"
description: "Haruo Nakajima  was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla (1954) until Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). Nakajima also played various other kaiju in Toho's tokusatsu films, including: Rodan (1956), Mothra (1961) and The War of the Gargantuas (1966) and also appeared in a minor roles in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954), Yojimbo, and Stray Dog."
tagline: "Japanese actor (1929–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Haruo_Nakajima_2013_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1929-01-01"
deathDate: "2017-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump