Clyde Kusatsu Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu

Acting

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Interpreter movie poster
MOVIE

The Interpreter

6.3(1.6K)
The Interpreter
Police Chief Lee Wu
Godzilla movie poster
MOVIE

Godzilla

5.7(4.2K)
Godzilla
Japanese Tanker Skipper
Shopgirl movie poster
MOVIE

Shopgirl

5.8(0.3K)
Shopgirl
Mr. Agasa
Babylon 5: Thirdspace movie poster
MOVIE

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

6.6(0.1K)
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
Bill Morishi
...All the Marbles movie poster
MOVIE

...All the Marbles

6.1(0.1K)
...All the Marbles
Clyde Yamashito
The Road Raiders movie poster
MOVIE

The Road Raiders

5.3(0.0K)
The Road Raiders
Shimoto
Love Happens movie poster
MOVIE

Love Happens

5.8(0.7K)
Love Happens
Cab Driver
American Tragedy movie poster
MOVIE

American Tragedy

5.8(0.0K)
American Tragedy
Judge Lance Ito
Extreme Dating movie poster
MOVIE

Extreme Dating

5.5(0.0K)
Extreme Dating
Joe
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear movie poster
MOVIE

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

6.3(0.7K)
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
Head Monk

Gallery

Clyde Kusatsu portrait
Clyde Kusatsu portrait