Clyde Kusatsu

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

Movies

151

Born: September 13, 1948
From: 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.

Works

88 films

American Pie

19996.6

Dream Lover

19936.6

47 Ronin

20136.2

Godzilla

19985.7

Hot Shots! Part Deux

19936.5

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

19966.3

The Interpreter

20056.3

In the Line of Fire

19937.0

Bird on a Wire

19906.2

Spy Hard

19965.4

Rumor Has It...

20055.7

Midway

19766.6

Rising Sun

19936.1

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

19936.9

Dr. Dolittle 2

20015.3

Love Happens

20095.8

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

20046.3

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

20086.3

Pretty Persuasion

20055.8

Turner & Hooch

19896.3

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

20056.9

Recess: School's Out

20016.6

Hollywood Homicide

20035.2

...All the Marbles

19816.1

Shopgirl

20055.8

Paparazzi

20045.3

Made in America

19935.5

Batman Beyond: The Movie

19997.2

Paradise Road

19976.4

The United States of Leland

20036.5

And the Band Played On

19936.5

The Frisco Kid

19796.1

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms

20066.3

Volunteers

19855.5

Black Sunday

19776.7

Oh, God!

19776.4

Drive Thru

20075.3

The Singing Detective

20035.1

Site

20256.4

Top Dog

19954.3

The Perfect Weapon

19916.4

Meteor

19795.2

The Challenge

19825.9

The Face of Love

20136.1

Dr. Strange

19786.1

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

20096.8

Deconstructing Sarah

19943.0

Go Tell the Spartans

19786.2

The Home

202610.0

Shanghai Surprise

19864.2

Gross Anatomy

19895.7

The Choirboys

19775.4

A Nanny for Christmas

20105.4

Justice League: Secret Origins

20017.7

American Tragedy

20005.8

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

19986.6

The Moment

20134.5

Fugly

2007

Velvet

19846.7

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons

19925.0

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Blowhole

20127.5

Extreme Dating

20045.5

And the Sea Will Tell

19916.3

Sylvan in Paradise

1986

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

20017.0

Lookin' to Get Out

19825.1

Silent Cries

19935.0

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

19955.1

Sex Tax: Based on a True Story

20101.0

Little Miss Christmas

20062.0

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

19908.0

Jailbirds

19917.7

Laguna Heat

19874.3

In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing

19905.6

Lies Before Kisses

1991

Farewell to Manzanar

19766.0

A Perfect Match

19807.0

Baby of the Bride

19916.0

Intimate Encounters

19863.8

Wired

19893.6

Gimme an 'F'

19844.9

Pizza Man

19914.0

Allison Sydney Harrison

19838.0

The Road Raiders

19895.3

Thanksgiving Day

19907.5

Run Till You Fall

198810.0

Streets of Justice

19857.0

Alex & the Gypsy

19764.6