Katsumi Tezuka

Katsumi Tezuka

Born

August 31, 1912

Occupation

Actor, suit actor, baseball player

Notable role(s)

Godzilla, Anguirus, Meganulon, Moguera, Mysterian, Varan, Natarl, Mothra larva, various bit parts

First work

Song of the White Orchid (1939)

Notable work

Godzilla (1954)

Katsumi Tezuka (手塚勝巳, Tezuka Katsumi) was a Japanese actor and professional 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.

Selected filmography

Godzilla (1954) as Godzilla [with Haruo Nakajima] / Hagiwara's editor
Godzilla Raids Again (1955) as Anguirus
Rodan (1956) as Hotel manager / Meganulon [legs; with Shoichi Hirose, Haruo Nakajima, Tokio Okawa]
The Mysterians (1957) as Moguera [with Haruo Nakajima] / villager [uncredited] / Mysterian [uncredited]
The H-Man (1958) as Fishing boat captain
Varan (1958) as Varan [with Haruo Nakajima]
The Three Treasures (1959)
Battle in Outer Space (1959) as Defense Force vice admiral / Natarl [uncredited]
Mothra (1961) as Mothra larva [neck; with Haruo Nakajima] / photographer
Gorath (1962) as Maguma [with Haruo Nakajima] / radio operator on the JX-2 Otori [uncredited]
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) as Godzilla [iceberg scene only; with Haruo Nakajima]
Matango (1963) as Police officer / medical center doctor [uncredited]
Atragon (1964) as JSDF officer / Mu henchman [uncredited]
Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) as Godzilla [with Haruo Nakajima] / soldier [uncredited]
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) as Godzilla [with Haruo Nakajima]

Gallery

Katsumi Tezuka in the Anguirus suit on the set of Godzilla Raids Again
Katsumi Tezuka (far right) on the set of Godzilla Raids Again
Katsumi Tezuka (far right) on the set of Godzilla Raids Again

Staff members

Directors

Drama directors	Adam Wingard • Daisuke Sato • Ernest Schoedsack • Eugène Lourié • Gareth Edwards • Hideaki Anno • Hirochika Muraishi • Hiroto Yokokawa • Hiroyuki Seshita • Ishiro Honda • John Guillermin • Jordan Vogt-Roberts • Jun Fukuda • Kazuhiro Nakagawa • Kazuki Omori • Kensho Yamashita • Kimiyoshi Yasuda • Kiyotaka Taguchi‎‎ • Kobun Shizuno • Koji Hashimoto • Kunio Miyoshi • Masaaki Hisamatsu • Masaaki Tezuka • Masaji Nonagase • Merian C. Cooper • Michael Dougherty • Minoru Kawasaki • Motoyoshi Oda • Noriaki Yuasa • Okihiro Yoneda • Peter Jackson • Roland Emmerich • Ryuhei Kitamura • Ryuichi Ichino • Shinji Higuchi • Shinpei Hayashiya • Shizuo Nakajima • Shusuke Kaneko • Takao Okawara • Takashi Miike • Takashi Yamazaki • Takeshi Yagi • Takuya Uenishi • Tomoo Haraguchi • Tokuzo Tanaka • Willis O'Brien • Yoshikazu Ishii • Yoshimitsu Banno • Yusuke Ishida

Effects directors	Eiichi Asada • Eiji Tsuburaya • Hiromasa Mitsudome • Hiroshi Butsuda • Isao Kaneko • Junkichi Oki • Katsuro Onoue • Kazuo Sagawa • Kenji Suzuki • Kiyoko Shibuya • Koichi Takano • Koichi Kawakita • Makoto Kamiya • Sadamasa Arikawa • Shinichi Kamisawa • Teruyoshi Nakano • Toru Matoba • Yoshio Tabuchi • Yoshiyuki Kuroda • Yuichi Kikuchi

Assistant directors	Hideki Oka • Ken Sano • Kiyotaka Matsumoto • Koji Kajita • Linto Ueda • Masakatsu Asai • Seiji Tani • Shogo Kiyosu • Takeharu Ikebuchi • Toshifumi Shimizu • Tsunesaburo Nishikawa • Yosuke Nakano

Writers

Screenwriters	Dean Devlin • Ei Ogawa • Gen Urobuchi • Hiroshi Aramata • Hiroshi Kashiwabara • Hiroyasu Yamaura • Kaoru Mabuchi • Kazuhiro Inaba • Kazuma Yoneyama • Kazunori Ito • Masahiro Yokotani • Masakazu Migita • Max Borenstein • Nisan Takahashi • Nobuhiko Ishii • Ruth Rose • Ryuzo Nakanishi • Shinichi Sekizawa • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Takeshi Nakazawa • Takeo Murata • Terry Rossio • Tetsuro Yoshida • Tetsuya Yamada • Toshio Yasumi • Wataru Mimura • Yukiko Takayama • Yusuke Watanabe • Zach Shields

Authors	August Ragone • Chiharu Sakazaki • Greg Keyes • Hideo Unagami • Ken Kuronuma • Kohan Kawauchi • Sakyo Komatsu • Satoshi Nakamura • Shigeru Kayama • Steve Ryfle

Producers

Executive producers	Dino De Laurentiis • Eric McLeod • Fumio Tanaka • Henry G. Saperstein • Hidemasa Nagata • Hiro Matsuoka • James H. Nicholson • John Beck • Keiji Ota • Kenji Okuhira • Masaichi Nagata • Minami Ichikawa • Osamu Tanaka • Reuben Bercovitch • Samuel Z. Arkoff • Shogo Tomiyama • Takahide Morichi • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Tsuguhiko Kadokawa • Yoshishige Shimatani

Producers/planners	Alex Garcia • Brian Rogers • Go Miyazaki • J.J. Abrams • Jon Jashni • Kazunari Yamanaka • Mary Parent • Ritsuko Suzuki • Takashi Yoshizawa • Thomas Tull • Yonejiro Saito

Camera & lighting

Cinematographers	Hajime Koizumi • Hajime Tsuburaya • Kazufumi Fujii • Keiichi Sakurai • Keizo Suzuki • Kenichi Eguchi • Kenya Mukai • Motoyoshi Tomioka • Shuzaburo Araki • Takeshi Yamamoto • Tokimaro Karasawa • Toshimitsu Oneda • Yuzo Kaneko

Lighting technicians	Kuichiro Kishida

Artists

Production designers	Akihiko Iguchi • Akira Inoue • Akira Sakuragi • Akira Watanabe • Hiromasa Shirai • Hiroshi Komura • Jiro Shirasaki • Owen Paterson • Takeo Kita • Tohl Narita • Toshio Miike • Toshiro Aoki • Yasuyuki Inoue • Yoshio Irie • Yoshio Suzuki

Illustrators	Bob Eggleton • Chris Mowry • Fuchimu Shimakura • Hideki Oka • James Stokoe • Jeff Zornow • Mahiro Maeda • Mario Larrinaga • Matt Frank • Minoru Yoshida • Noriyoshi Ohrai • Patrick Tatopoulos • Priscilla Tramontano • "Hurricane" Ryu Hariken • Shinichiro Kobayashi • Shinji Nishikawa • William Reynold Brown

Propmakers	Akira Yamada • Carlo Rambaldi • Eizo Kaimai • Fumihiko Yagi • Fuminori Ohashi • Fuyuki Shinada • Hidenori Yamaoka • Kakusei Fujiwara • Kanju Yagi and Yasuei Yagi • Keizo Murase • Marcel Delgado • Masao Yagi • Masayuki Kurahashi • Nobuhiro Ekubo • Nobuyuki Yasumaru • Norihiro "Nori" Honda • Ray Harryhausen • Rick Baker • Ryosaku Takayama • Shigeaki Ito • Shigeru Kawaguchi • Shinichi Wakasa • Shuichi Murakami • Teizo Toshimitsu • Tomoki Kobayashi • Tsutomu Kobayashi • Yuji Sakai

Musicians

Composers & arrangers	Akira Ifukube • Alexandre Desplat • Bear McCreary • Chumei Watanabe • Henry Jackman • Ikuma Dan • Kenjiro Hirose • Kow Otani • Kunio Miyauchi • Masaru Sato • Michiru Oshima • Naoki Sato • Reijiro Koroku • Riichiro Manabe • Sei Ikeno • Shiro Sagisu • Shunsuke Kikuchi • Takayuki Hattori • Tom Holkenborg • Yuji Koseki

Singers/performers	Emi Ito and Yumi Ito • Masato Shimon • XAI

Miscellaneous

Sound & editing	Bob Ducsay • Erik Aadahl • Hideyo Sasaki • Hisashi Shimonaga • Kazuji Taira • Ted Cheesman • Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Effects people	Hiroshi Mukoyama • Jim Rygiel • Kyuzo Yamamoto • Minoru Nakano • Pete Peterson • Sadao Iizuka • Satoshi Narumi • Tadaaki Watanabe • Tetsuo Ohya • Yukio Manoda

Miscellaneous	Kanzo Uni • Takashi Nakao • Yasuaki Sakamoto

V • T • E

(1954)

Film	Godzilla (Gallery)

Monsters and Superweapons	Godzilla (ShodaiGoji) • Trilobite • Oxygen Destroyer

Characters	Daisuke Serizawa • Kyohei Yamane • Emiko Yamane • Hideto Ogata • Shinkichi Yamane

Cast	Takashi Shimura • Akihiko Hirata • Momoko Kochi • Akira Takarada • Haruo Nakajima • Katsumi Tezuka

Staff	Ishiro Honda • Tomoyuki Tanaka • Eiji Tsuburaya • Akira Ifukube • Shigeru Kayama

Music	Soundtrack

Adaptations	Monster Godzilla (radio play) • Monster Godzilla (novelizaton) • Godzilla (1955 novelization) • Godzilla (1984 novelization)

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