Clyde Kusatsu

Actor
BirthdaySep 13, 1948 (76 years old)
Place of birthHonolulu, Hawaii, USA
GenderMale

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

English Teacher

Jul 9, 1999

Ice Cream Man

Jan 9, 2000

Calm Man / Additional Voices (voice), Storyteller / Additional Voices (voice), Additional Voices (voice), Senior Monk (voice)

Feb 21, 2005

Japanese Tanker Skipper

May 20, 1998

Drunk Official

Dec 6, 2013

Lo Pan

Oct 7, 1998

NCIS

7.6

Benjamin Franklin

Sep 23, 2003

Additional Voice Talents (voice)

May 20, 1996

Prime Minister Soto

May 21, 1993

Ted Yoshida

Apr 27, 2020

Judge Kamalei

Sep 20, 2010

Bee (voice)

Jun 22, 2001

Jack Okura

Jul 8, 1993

Adm. Nakamura, Vice Admiral Nakamura

Sep 28, 1987

Police Chief Lee Wu

Apr 8, 2005

Judge

Sep 20, 2011

Kevin Williams

Jul 28, 1989

Conference Attendee

Dec 22, 2005

ALF

7.7

Skydiver

Sep 22, 1986

English Teacher

Jul 9, 1999

Ice Cream Man

Jan 9, 2000

Calm Man / Additional Voices (voice), Storyteller / Additional Voices (voice), Additional Voices (voice), Senior Monk (voice)

Feb 21, 2005

Japanese Tanker Skipper

May 20, 1998

Drunk Official

Dec 6, 2013

Lo Pan

Oct 7, 1998

Acting


Participated in 82 movies, 139 TV series

2024

Grant Yokohama


2024

Fire Nation Sage


2023

Elder Domo (voice), Watari / Boss Hamata (voice), Watari (voice), Boss Hamata / Tayu (voice)


2022


2022

Ping / Reporter 2 (voice), Ping (voice)


2020

Ted Yoshida


2018

Psychiatrist


2018

Norman


2016

Domog (voice)


2015

Jerry


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