Clyde Kusatsu - Фильмы

Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is a U. S. actor. Kusatsu was born and рейз в Гонолулу, Гавайи, where he attended'Iolani Школы. Kusatsu began acting in Honolulu summer stock, and after studying theatre at северо-западного Университета, started to make his mark on the small screen in the mid-1970-х годов пассажирский. Usually mustachioed, with a dapper, professional air, he has most often played doctors, but his repertoire has included a generous sampling of учителей (usually college professors), businessmen, detectives, church ministers and other intelligent, middle-class types. With his quiet, wry line delivery, Kusatsu made a memorably умный и веселые спарринг партнер для Арчи Банкер (Кэрролл О'Коннор) является several эпизодов of All in the Family as the Преподобный Чен, refusing to baptize Арчи'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 в Лос-Анджелесе. Kusatsu was a впоследствии regular является 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 Ричард Чемберлен's colleagues) длилась very long. His many television movies have included the film adaptation of Farewell to Манзанар (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 Судья Ланс Ито. He had a memorable role in the "Бад Бад Блэк Шип" эпизод "Prisoners of War" as a сбитом Japanese fighter pilot in the Pacific (1976). (Kusatsu also guest-starred on an episode of Лу Грант Japanese internment in the U. S.); Golden Land (1988), a Голливуд-set drama based on a Уильям Фолкнер история; and the AIDS drama And the Band Played On (1993). He appeared in four M*A*S*H эпизодов 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. Функция 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", как г-н Agasa, и в Сидней Поллак's The Interpreter (2005) as Lee, Ву, head of security for the United Nations Headquarters. He currently plays the днем role of Доктор Деннис Okamura on the CBS soap opera, The Young and the Restless. Kusatsu starred in Гарольд & Кумар Побег из Гуантанамо Бэй (2008) as г-н Ли. Kusatsu is молодожены to Гейл Kusatsu; they have two sons, Кевин и Эндрю.