Clyde Kusatsu

Acting September 13, 1948 (78 years old) 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.

Clyde Kusatsu

Biography

Movies 89

American Pie

Godzilla

Dream Lover

Midway

Hot Shots! Part Deux

47 Ronin

In the Line of Fire

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Hollywood Homicide

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Bird on a Wire

The Interpreter

Pretty Persuasion

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Dr. Dolittle 2

Turner & Hooch

Recess: School's Out

Rising Sun

Rumor Has It...

Spy Hard

The Frisco Kid

And the Band Played On

Batman Beyond: The Movie

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

...All the Marbles

Shopgirl

Meteor

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

Made in America

The Face of Love

Love Happens

The United States of Leland

Paparazzi

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

Go Tell the Spartans

Paradise Road

The Perfect Weapon

Volunteers

Drive Thru

A Nanny for Christmas

Black Sunday

The Challenge

Dr. Strange

Site

Shanghai Surprise

Justice League: Secret Origins

Top Dog

The Choirboys

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

Oh, God!

Lookin' to Get Out

The Singing Detective

And the Sea Will Tell

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

Gross Anatomy

Baby of the Bride

Extreme Dating

Wired

In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing

Deconstructing Sarah

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Blowhole

Fugly

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

The Home

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

Run Till You Fall

Intimate Encounters

Velvet

Magnum PI: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii

Gimme an 'F'

The Moment

Silent Cries

Alex & the Gypsy

Pizza Man

The Road Raiders

Allison Sydney Harrison

MAS*H

MAS*H