Robert Dunham
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Robert Dunham (July 6, 1931 - August 6, 2001) is an American actor. He is probably best known for his role as Antonio, Emperor of Seatopia in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973); Dunham's most famous role would be that of Mark Jackson in the Japanese film, Dogora (1964). Dunham was an American living in Japan during most of the country's "Golden Age" of cinema, and was cast in several films. He spoke fluent Japanese, and his lines were never dubbed over by a Japanese actor during his career, Dunham was also a stunt driver, and lended his talents to Godzilla vs. Megalon, where Dunham played the Seatopia agent on a motorcycle, who gave chase to the protagonist of the film. Toho had big things planned fro Robert Dunham, following his role in Dogora, and had actually proposed a series of movies featuring the Mark Jackson character. Toho even sent Dunham to Hollywood with a print of Dogora to try and sell the film to distributors, and to propose additional Mark Jackson based movies. Unfortunately for Dunham, who pitched the film to UPA, the Mark Jackson films were turned down, as UPA felt they couldn't gauge his acting ability from the film.
He was born in Portland, Maine, and died in Sarasota, Florida.
