Harold Sakata
Toshiyuki Sakata (坂田 敏行, Sakata Toshiyuki, July 1, 1920 – July 29, 1982), better known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor of Japanese descent. He won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting, and later became a popular professional wrestler under the ring name Tosh Togo, wrestling primarily for various National Wrestling Alliance territories as a tag team with Great Togo. He also wrestled in Japan for the Japanese Wrestling Association between 1955 and 1957. On the basis of his wrestling work, he was cast in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964) as the villain Oddjob, a role he would be closely associated with for the rest of his life.
| Harold Sakata | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Toshiyuki Sakata |
| Born | July 1, 1920 Holualoa, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Died | July 29, 1982 (aged 62) St. Francis Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Tosh Togo Tosh Tojo Harold Sakata Mr. Sakata Toska Sakata |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) |
| Billed weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Billed from | Honolulu, Hawaii Tokyo, Japan Yokohama, Japan Osaka, Japan |
| Trained by | Tsutao Higami Ben Sherman |
| Debut | c. 1949 |
| Retired | c. 1975 |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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| Men's Weightlifting | ||
| Representing the United States | ||
| 1948 London | Light-heavyweight | |