Tadao Takashima (高島忠夫,   Takashima Tadao^?) was a Japanese film and television actor. He is the husband of actress Hanayo Sumi and the father of actors Masanobu Takashima and Masahiro Takashima. Takashima appeared in several of Toho's kaiju films during the Showa era, most notably King Kong vs. Godzilla. He passed away on June 26th, 2019.

Filmography[]

Acting credits[]

• King Kong vs. Godzilla as Osamu Sakurai
• Atragon as Susumu Hatanaka
• Frankenstein Conquers the World as Dr. Kenichiro Kawaji
• Son of Godzilla as Dr. Tsunezo Kusumi
• Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II as Center for Psychic Development Chief Hosono

Trivia[]

• In Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, Tadao Takashima's character, Chief Hosono, encounters Kazuma Aoki, played by Takashima's son Masahiro Takashima. When they are introduced, Hosono tells Aoki that he "doesn't trust him one little bit."

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Showa era	Directors: Ishiro Honda • Eiji TsuburayaSFX director • Motoyoshi Oda • Koji Hashimoto • Koichi KawakitaAssistant SFX director • Jun Fukuda • Yoshimitsu Banno • Mikio Naruse Producers: Tomoyuki Tanaka Writers: Shinichi Sekizawa • Takeo Murata • Takeshi Kimura Composers: Akira Ifukube • Masaru Sato Actors and actresses: Akira Takarada • Akihiko Hirata • Momoko Kochi • Takashi Shimura • Fuyuki Murakami • Raymond Burr • Hiroshi Koizumi • Tadao Takashima • Hideyo Amamoto • Kumi Mizuno • Susumu Kurobe • Seiji Ōnaka • Koji Furuhata • Don MessickTGPH Suit actors: Haruo Nakajima • Katsumi Tezuka • Hiroshi Sekita • Kōji Sora • Satoshi Furuya • Koetsu Omiya • Shinji Takagi • Hideto Odachi • Isao Zushi • Tadakki Watanabe • Toru Kawai
Heisei era	Directors: Kazuki Omori • Takao OkawaraWriters: Kazuki Omori Composers: Reijiro Koroku • Kouichi Sugiyama • Takayuki Hattori Actors and actresses: Megumi Odaka • Masahiro Takashima • Jirō Dan • Mayumi Ōkuwa • Kaori Aizawa • Kenichirō Shimamura Suit actors: Wataru Fukuda • Ryō Haritani • Kenpachiro Satsuma • Hurricane Ryu Hariken • Tsutomu Kitagawa • Mizuho Yoshida • Akira Ohashi • Toshinori Sasaki Printed media: Noriyoshi Ohrai • Hurricane Ryu Hariken
Millennium series	Directors: Takao Okawara • Masaaki Tezuka • Shusuke Kaneko • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Ryuhei Kitamura Producers: Shogo Tomiyama Writers: Wataru Mimura Composers: Michiru Oshima • Kow Otani Actors and actresses:Natalia D. AdamsOrga vocalizations Suit actors: Rie Ota • Toshinori Sasaki • Hirofumi Ishigaki • Kazuhiro Yoshida
TriStar Pictures	Directors: Roland Emmerich Producers: Dean Devlin Writers: Dean Devlin Actors and actresses: Frank WelkerGodzilla vocalizations Suit actors: Kurt Carley
MonsterVerse	Directors: Gareth Edwards • Jordan Vogt-Roberts Producers: Thomas Tull • Jon Jashni • Mary Parent • Brian Rogers • Yoshimitsu Banno Writers: Max Borenstein Composers: Alexandre Desplat • Henry Jackman Actors and actresses: Aaron Taylor-Johnson • Ken Watanabe • Elizabeth Olsen • Juliette Binoche • Sally Hawkins • David Strathairn • Bryan Cranston • Carson Bolde • CJ Adams • Al Sapienza • Tom Hiddleston • Samuel L. Jackson • John Goodman • Brie Larson • Jing Tian • Toby Kebbell • John Ortiz • Corey Hawkins • Jason Mitchell • Shea Whigham • Thomas Mann • John C. Reilly • Millie Bobby Brown • Kyle Chandler • Vera Farmiga • O'Shea Jackson Jr. • Aisha Hinds • Anthony Ramos • Charles Dance • Randell Havens • Thomas Middleditch • Bradley Whitford • Zhang Ziyi Suit actors: T.J. Storm
Reiwa era	Directors: Hideaki Anno • Shinji Higuchi • Kobun Shizuno • Hiroyuki Seshita Writers: Hideaki Anno Composers: Shiro Sagisu • Takayuki Hattori Actors and actresses: Ren Matsuzawa • Miwa Sasaki • Hiroki Hasegawa • Yutaka Takenouchi • Satomi Ishihara • Mamoru Miyano • Takahiro Sakurai • Kana Hanazawa • Tomokazu Sugita • Yuuki Kaji • Junichi Suwabe Suit actors: Mansai Nomura
Miscellaneous	Directors: Willis O'Brien Actors and actresses: Peter CullenKing Kong vocalizations IDW Publishing: Chris Mowry • Matt Frank • Jeff Zornow • Priscilla Tramontano