Harold Sakata
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| Born | Toshiyuki Sakata July 1, 1920 Holualoa, Hawaii, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | July 29, 1982 (aged 62) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||
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Toshiyuki Sakata (坂田 敏行, Sakata Toshiyuki; July 1, 1920 – July 29, 1982), known as Harold Sakata, was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal 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.
Sakata also wrestled in Japan for the Japanese Wrestling Association between 1955 and 1957, and was an early mentor and sometimes-tag-partner to Rikidōzan. 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.