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Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is an American actor of Japanese descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The New York Times )〕 ==Life and career== Kusatsu was born on September 13, 1948 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and raised there, where he attended 'Iolani 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. 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. (Kusatsu also guest-starred on an episode of ''Lou Grant'' on Japanese internment in the U.S.); Other television films 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); ''Golden Land'' (1988), a Hollywood-set drama based on a William Faulkner story; and the AIDS drama ''And the Band Played On'' (1993). Kustatsu also made several guest appearances on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' as Starfleet Vice Admiral Nakamura, appeared in four ''M *A *S *H'' episodes, the Rockford Files episode "New Life Old Dragons" in 1977 and later starred in the short-lived A.B.C. series ''All American Girl'' (1994–1995), the first Asian American family sitcom in the U.S. He also guest starred in several episodes of the 1990s ABC situation comedy ''Family Matters'' as Principal Shimata, the usual foil of that series' main protagonist Steve Urkel. 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 played 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. He is also one of the most recognizable actors in the TV and movie industry whenever an ethnic character is needed. Few people may not realize Kusatsu appeared as three different characters in the Magnum, p.i. series, including playing the Vietnamese character who severely wounded the Thomas Magnum character (Tom Selleck) in the series from the 1980s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clyde Kusatsu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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