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Godzilla in a scene from the 1954 film.
Toho Co. Ltd.; thumbnail, Kyodo, via Reuters, 1966
Haruo Nakajima
Died on August 7, 2017 at age 88
Mr. Nakajima was the Japanese actor who, in a 200-pound rubber suit, played the movie monster Godzilla in a dozen films and whose booming steps as the creature sent the denizens of Tokyo running into cinematic history.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.