Katsumi Tezuka

Born: 1912-08-31

Katsumi Tezuka was a Japanese actor and former baseball player. He was best known for serving as the suit actor for numerous kaiju in several Toho science fiction and horror films directed by Ishiro Honda. Tezuka fate after the 1960s is uncertain and his date of death is unknown.


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Godzilla

as Godzilla
Released: 1954-11-03

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the...

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King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Godzilla in Iceberg
Released: 1962-08-11

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...

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Godzilla Raids Again

as Anguirus
Released: 1955-04-24

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla...

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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

as Godzilla (uncredited)
Released: 1956-05-18

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught...

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Mothra vs. Godzilla

as Godzilla
Released: 1964-04-29

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found...

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Matango

as Police Personnel (uncredited)
Released: 1963-08-11

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The...

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King Kong vs. Godzilla

as Godzilla in iceberg (uncredited)
Released: 1963-06-26

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong...

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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

as (uncredited)
Released: 1956-01-03

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...

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Godzilla

as Godzilla (uncredited)
Released: 1977-01-01

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S....

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Mothra

as Mothra
Released: 1961-07-30

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...

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Battle in Outer Space

as Natari
Released: 1959-12-26

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global...

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Rodan

as Rodan / Meganulon / Hotel Manager
Released: 1956-12-26

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when...

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The Mysterians

as Mysterian
Released: 1957-12-28

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an...

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Atragon

as Mu Henchman
Released: 1963-12-22

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with...

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Gorath

as Ôtori Radio Operator
Released: 1962-03-21

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth....

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Varan the Unbelievable

as Varan
Released: 1962-12-07

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military...

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47 Ronin

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-03

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...

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Moment of Terror

as uncredited
Released: 1966-04-16

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the...

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The H-Man

as Captain of fishing boat (uncredited)
Released: 1958-06-24

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

as Angurus
Released: 1959-05-21

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

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The Three Treasures

as uncredited
Released: 1959-11-01

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...

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Varan

as Varan
Released: 1958-10-14

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of...

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Beast Alley

as Fukami
Released: 1965-09-05

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...

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Ôban

as Kojima
Released: 1957-03-05

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....

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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

as Godzilla (uncredited)
Released: 1957-03-14

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho...

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Marital Relations

as uncredited
Released: 1955-09-13

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....

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Daredevil in the Castle

as Shuma Ono
Released: 1961-01-03

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...

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The Retreat from Kiska

as uncredited
Released: 1965-07-04

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers....

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Eagle of the Pacific

as (uncredited)
Released: 1953-10-21

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...

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Rebels on the High Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1956-08-08

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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Forty-Eight Man

as uncredited
Released: 1952-06-26

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Tokyo 1960

as Godzilla
Released: 1957-12-27

A Filipino re-edit of the original Godzilla. Appears to have been edited in a similar fashion to...

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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

as uncredited
Released: 1958-03-25

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued...

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I Was a Prisoner in Siberia

as uncredited
Released: 1952-04-03

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Rodan! The Flying Monster!

as Hotel Manager / Rodan / Meganulon (uncredited)
Released: 1957-11-07

US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the...

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Her Captive Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-03

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The Last Embrace

as Gangster
Released: 1953-03-11

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two...

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Shanghai Rose

as M.P. sergeant
Released: 1952-08-13

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The Story of Iron Arm Inao

as Yoshikawa
Released: 1959-03-21

An Ishiro Honda film.

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