Clyde Kusatsu

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	Acting
Most Rating	1.477
Birthday	1948-09-13
Place of Birth	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Also Known As	كلَيد كوساتسو,

The Interpreter

Godzilla

Shopgirl

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

...All the Marbles

The Road Raiders

Love Happens

American Tragedy

Extreme Dating

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Top Dog

A Nanny for Christmas

Drive Thru

Gross Anatomy

The Choirboys

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

Dr. Strange

The Moment

Shanghai Surprise

Allison Sydney Harrison

Silent Cries

Pizza Man

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

Deconstructing Sarah

Site

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Blowhole

Meteor

Batman Beyond: The Movie

Go Tell the Spartans

And the Sea Will Tell

Lookin' to Get Out

Wired

Run Till You Fall

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Jailbirds

Thanksgiving Day

The Challenge

Alex & the Gypsy

Lies Before Kisses

In the Line of Fire

Farewell to Manzanar

Paradise Road

Justice League: Secret Origins

Sex Tax: Based on a True Story

American Pie

The Perfect Weapon

47 Ronin

Turner & Hooch

Hollywood Homicide

The Face of Love

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

Spy Hard

Intimate Encounters

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Rising Sun

Dream Lover

In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing

Bird on a Wire

Laguna Heat

A Perfect Match

Pretty Persuasion

Volunteers

Rumor Has It...

Recess: School's Out

Baby of the Bride

Dr. Dolittle 2

The Frisco Kid

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

Black Sunday

Oh, God!

Midway

The United States of Leland

Paparazzi

Velvet

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

Made in America

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Streets of Justice

And the Band Played On

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins