Teruo Aragaki

Teruo Aragaki 荒垣輝雄

Occupation/Role	Suit actor
Birthday	March 4, 1937
Date of Death	April 8, 2014^[1]
Birthplace	Tokyo, Japan

Teruo Aragaki (新垣輝雄, Aragaki Teruo^?) was a Japanese suit actor best known for daikaiju eiga (giant-monster movies) as being the suit actor for Gamera in the films Gamera vs. Barugon, Gamera vs. Gyaos and Gamera vs. Viras, as well as one of the suit actors to portray many monsters in the Ultraman Series.

Biography[]

Career[]

Teruo Aragaki was most well-known known in Kaiju Eiga as being the suit actor for Gamera in the films Gamera vs. Barugon, Gamera vs. Gyaos and Gamera vs. Viras, as well as one of the suit actors to portray many monsters in the Ultraman Series. He is notably the man who portrayed famous monsters such as Red King and Zetton, as well as one half of the two-man suit piloted monsters, Dodongo and Pestar. Former Daiei Film director Noriaki Yuasa stated that Teruo Aragaki was very nimble to be able to pilot the Gamera costume as the suit was equipped with reinforced steel.

Late-life[]

in his late-life Arakagi suffered from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and had been away from the stage for more than 20 years, he died a long asleep at the age of 77 in April 2014.