Steve Martin
From Multiversal Omnipedia
Steve Martin was an American reporter for United World News and an old college friend of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa who was in Tokyo when Godzilla attacked in 1954. He stayed on to report to his editor in the US, George, by making a tape recording for him, and survived the attack despite being buried alive in rubble when Godzilla brushed by the building he was in. Years later as a much older man and grandfather, Steve was called upon by the US Army's General Goodhoe as a "Godzilla expert" when Godzilla reappeared in 1985.
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Note that Raymond Burr as Steve Martin only exists in the Americanized versions of Godzilla and Godzilla 1985. The character does not exist in the original Japanese versions of either film.