Tadaaki Watanabe

Tadaaki Watanabe Born August 9, 1940 Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Occupation Special effects technician, prop master, suit actor Notable role(s) Anguirus First work The Three Treasures (1959) Notable work Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Tadaaki Watanabe (渡辺 忠昭,   Watanabe Tadaaki) is a former Japanese special effects technician and prop master whose career with Toho spanned six decades, from the 1950s to the 2000s. He was also one of the suit actors for Anguirus in Destroy All Monsters.

Selected filmography

Special effects

• The Three Treasures (1959) - Pyrotechnics
• Mothra (1961) - Pyrotechnics
• The Last War (1961) - Pyrotechnics
• Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) - Pyrotechnics
• Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) - Pyrotechnics
• Son of Godzilla (1967) - Prop master
• Destroy All Monsters (1968) - Pyrotechnics
• Latitude Zero (1969) - Effects
• Space Amoeba (1970) - Effects
• Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) - Prop master
• Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) - Effects
• Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) - Special effects
• Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) - Special effects
• ESPY (1974) - Special effects
• Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) - Special effects
• Conflagration (1975) - Special effects
• The War in Space (1977) - Special effects
• Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) - Special effects
• The Return of Godzilla (1984) - Special effects
• Gunhed (1989) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993) - Special effects
• Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995) - Special effects
• Rebirth of Mothra (1996) - Special effects
• Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997) - Special effects
• Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998) - Special effects
• Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) - Special effects
• Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) - Special effects

Actor

• Destroy All Monsters (1968) as Anguirus [with Hiroshi Sekita]

References

This is a list of references for Tadaaki Watanabe. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

Comments

Showing 3 comments. When commenting, please remain respectful of other users, stay on topic, and avoid role-playing and excessive punctuation. Comments which violate these guidelines may be removed by administrators.

Loading comments...