
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Ken Ogata (緒形 拳 Ogata Ken, 20 July 1937-5 October 2008) was a Japanese actor. Ogata was born in Tokyo, Japan. Ogata is well known for his roles in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama. He won the award for best actor at the 26th Blue Ribbon Awards for Okinawan Boys. In television, his starring role as Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 1965 NHK Taiga drama Taikōki catapulted him to fame. Ken went on to many prominent roles in subsequent programs. The following year, he portrayed Benkei in Minamoto no Yoshitsune. The network tapped him again for the role of Fujiwara no Sumitomo in the 1976 Kaze to Kumo to Niji to. He returned to playing Hideyoshi in the 1978 Ōgon no Hibi, and returned to the lead as Ōishi Kuranosuke in Tōge no Gunzō, the 1982 Chūshingura. Another featured appearance in a Taiga drama was in Taiheiki (1991, as Ashikaga Sadauji, father of Takauji). Mr. Ogata died on October 5, 2008, just days after finishing his role in the production of the Fuji TV drama "Kaze no Garden" (Garden of the Winds), filmed in the rural Furano area of northern Japan. In his final role, Ogata, himself 71 years of age, played a doctor involved in the end-of-life care of elderly patients. His sons Kanta and Naoto Ogata are actors. NHK selected Naoto for the starring role of Oda Nobunaga in the 1992 Taiga drama Nobunaga King of Zipangu; Kanta played Inaba Masakatsu in Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (2000). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Ogata, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
as Baian Fujieda

as Skit guest
1996

1994

as Baian Fujieda
1972

as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi
1965

as Musashibo Benkei
1966

as Yoshio Oishi
1982

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1978

as Yujiro Kishiwada(岸和田 裕二郎)
1997

1997

as Hokusai
1981

as Teizo Shiratori
2008

as Yukio Mishima
1985
as Tofu shop owner
2006
as Shunpei Takayama
2008

as Nurarihyon
2008

as Magohachiro Kibe
2006

as Tofu shop owner
2006

as Matsutaro Yasuda
2006

2005

as Maki Sukezaemon
2005

as Takashi Yamamura
2005

2005

as Chief Retainer Hori
2004

as Doujima
2004

as Swordsman
2004

2003

2003

as Nobuo Honma
2002

as Villager (segment "Japan")
2002

as Soga no Umako
2001

as Client
2000
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as Toyama Masamichi
1996

1996

1995

as The Father
1995
as Baian Fujieda
33 ep.

as Skit guest
1 episodes

1 episodes

as Baian Fujieda
33 episodes

as Toyotomi no Hideyoshi
52 episodes

as Musashibo Benkei
52 episodes

as Yoshio Oishi
50 episodes

as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
51 episodes

as Yujiro Kishiwada(岸和田 裕二郎)
1 episodes

50 episodes

as Teizo Shiratori
11 episodes

as Yuzo Nakama
10 episodes

3 episodes

as Soga no Umako
2 episodes

12 episodes

13 episodes

3 episodes
11 episodes
as 金子 高利
6 episodes

1 episodes
1 episodes

11 episodes

10 episodes
1 episodes

1 episodes