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Clyde Kusatsu

Profession
Acting
Born
September 13, 1948 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Biography

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.

Known for

American Pie poster
American Pie
Film · 1999 · ★ 6.7
Avatar: The Last Airbender poster
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Series · 2005 · ★ 8.8
Malcolm in the Middle poster
Malcolm in the Middle
Series · 2000 · ★ 8.5
Godzilla poster
Godzilla
Film · 1998 · ★ 5.7
47 Ronin poster
47 Ronin
Film · 2013 · ★ 6.2
Charmed poster
Charmed
Series · 1998 · ★ 8.2
NCIS poster
NCIS
Series · 2003 · ★ 7.6
The Legend of Korra poster
The Legend of Korra
Series · 2012 · ★ 8.2
Hot Shots! Part Deux poster
Hot Shots! Part Deux
Film · 1993 · ★ 6.5
Aladdin and the King of Thieves poster
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
Film · 1996 · ★ 6.2
Never Have I Ever poster
Never Have I Ever
Series · 2020 · ★ 8.0
Hawaii Five-0 poster
Hawaii Five-0
Series · 2010 · ★ 7.7

Filmography