Masumi Okada
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| Born | September 22, 1935 Nice, France |
| Died | May 29, 2006 (aged 70) Tokyo, Japan |
Masumi Okada (岡田眞澄 Okada Masumi?, September 22, 1935 – May 29, 2006) was a Japanese actor, entertainer and master of ceremonies. He was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father who was a professional artist, and a Danish mother. His older brother was E. H. Eric, who was also a relatively well-known professional actor in Japan. Okada was married three times, and died only seven years after his most recent child (a son) was born. He died of throat cancer in Tokyo, Japan at age 70.
Okada is perhaps best remembered by North Americans as Newspaper Reporter "Ito Mura" in the P-Productions tokusatsu television series The Space Giants and as "Dr. Jules Masson" in Ishiro Honda's Latitude Zero.
[edit] Partial filmography
- Crazed Fruit (1956)
- Arashi wo Yobu Otoko (1957)
- Latitude Zero (1969)
- Isoge! Wakamono (1974)
- A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977)
- Fuyu no Hana (1978)
- Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)
- The Sea and Poison (1986)
- Jingi (1991)
- The Hunted (1995)
- Getting Any? (1995) cameo appearance as Stalin
- Ai Suru (1997)
- Hakuchi (1999)
- Siberian Express 5 (2003)
- IZO (2004)
- Waru: kanketsu-hen (2006)
