Sakata worked steadily after his screen debut in "Goldfinger." He appeared in several guest roles on such hit TV series as "Gilligan's Island," "Quincy, M.E.," "The Rockford Files" and "The Amazing Spider-Man," and also had a recurring role on the TV drama "Sarge." Sakata's last screen role came in 1982 in the horror thriller "Invaders of the Lost Gold." He died of liver cancer on July 29, 1982, at age 62. In the early '60s, his work in the ring caught the eye of Bond movie producer Harry Saltzman and director Guy Hamilton, which led to his iconic role as Oddjob in 1964. Auric Goldfinger is the titular main antagonist of the 1959 James Bond novel Goldfinger and its 1964 film adaptation. The Goldfinger book was the seventh novel in Fleming’s James Bond series. Army who served in World War II, Sakata's training as a weightlifter led to him earning a silver medal in weightlifting in the light-heavyweight division at the 1948 Olympics.Īssuming the moniker Tosh Togo, Sakata embarked on a 21-year career as a professional wrestler, which lasted from 1949 to 1970. He had killed a heroin dealer with his bare hands. The book starts out with Bond in Miami thinking back about a job in Mexico.
It is the seventh book in the sequence, originally published in 1959. Although Oddjob is described as being of Korean descent in "Goldfinger," Sakata was actually of Japanese-American origin and born in Honolulu. Goldfinger is the fifth James Bond novel I have read.
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