Clyde Kusatsu

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is a U.S. actor. Kusatsu was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he attended ʻIolani School. Kusatsu began acting in Honolulu summer stock, and after studying theatre at Northwestern University, started to make his mark on the small screen in the mid-1970s. Usually mustachioed, with a dapper, professional air, he has most often played doctors, but his repertoire has included a generous sampling of teachers (usually college professors), businessmen, detectives, church ministers and other intelligent, middle-class types. With his quiet, wry line delivery, Kusatsu made a memorably clever and hilarious sparring partner for Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) on several episodes of All in the Family as the Reverend Chong, refusing to baptize Archie's grandson without the permission of the boy's parents. During this period Kusatsu also worked with the Asian American theatre group East West Players in Los Angeles. Kusatsu was subsequently a regular on several series, but neither the adventure Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982–83) nor the Hawaiian-set medical drama Island Son (1989–90) (in which he played one of Richard Chamberlain's colleagues) lasted very long. His many television movies have included the film adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar (1976), about Japanese American internment during World War II. Other M.O.W.s and mini-series have been "And The Sea Will Tell", and "American Tragedy" playing Judge Lance Ito. He had a memorable role in the "Baa Baa Black Sheep" episode "Prisoners of War" as a downed Japanese fighter pilot in the Pacific (1976). (Kusatsu also guest-starred on an episode of Lou Grant on Japanese internment in the U.S.); Golden Land (1988), a Hollywood-set drama based on a William Faulkner story; and the AIDS drama And the Band Played On (1993). He appeared in four M*A*S*H episodes and later starred in the short-lived A.B.C. series All American Girl (1994–1995), the first East Asian familiar sitcom in the U.S. Feature roles, beginning with Midway (1976), have generally been small, but in the 1990s Kusatsu had roles in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993, as a history teacher) and In the Line of Fire (1993, as a Secret Service agent). He appeared as a high school English teacher in American Pie (1999). Other recent films have been "ShopGirl" as Mr. Agasa, and in Sydney Pollack's The Interpreter (2005) as Lee Wu, head of security for the United Nations Headquarters. He currently plays the recurring role of Dr. Dennis Okamura on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. Kusatsu starred in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) as Mr. Lee. Kusatsu is married to Gayle Kusatsu; they have two sons, Kevin and Andrew. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clyde Kusatsu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Place of Birth
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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CharacterMovie / TV ShowGenresReleaseRating
JudgeNew GirlTV74% · 1,486
Judge KamaleiHawaii Five-0TV78% · 1,763
Mr. LeeHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay63% · 1,513
MorimotoChuckTV2 Episodes77% · 1,055
Dr. TanakaThe CloserTV79% · 308
Numb3rsTV70% · 387
Judge MatsumuraBoston LegalTV79% · 333
Head MonkThe Librarian: Quest for the Spear63% · 643
Benjamin FranklinNCISTV76% · 2,344
Coroner ChungHollywood Homicide52% · 650
Judge RienzoMonkTV79% · 1,130
NogginSpy Hard54% · 682
Capt. MorimotoJAGTV73% · 362
Senator Theodore FujiwaraJAGTV73% · 362
Prime Minister SotoHot Shots! Part Deux65% · 1,899
Adm. NakamuraStar Trek: The Next GenerationTV3 Episodes84% · 1,567
Vice Admiral NakamuraStar Trek: The Next GenerationTV84% · 1,567
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