1948-09-13 ( 76 years old ) in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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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.
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Movies
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2013-12-06
The Face of Love
2013-10-25
The Moment
2013-04-21
A Nanny for Christmas
2010-11-23
Sex Tax: Based on a True Story
2010-10-01
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
2009-11-10
Love Happens
2009-09-18
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
2008-04-25
Drive Thru
2007-05-29
Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
2006-10-28
Rumor Has It...
2005-12-22
Shopgirl
2005-10-21
Extreme Dating
2005-06-23
The Interpreter
2005-04-08
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005-04-08
Pretty Persuasion
2005-01-22
Paparazzi
2004-09-03
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
2004-07-12
Hollywood Homicide
2003-06-09
The United States of Leland
2003-05-15
Justice League: Secret Origins
2001-11-17
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001-08-18
Dr. Dolittle 2
2001-06-22
Recess: School's Out
2001-02-16
American Tragedy
2000-11-12
American Pie
1999-07-09
Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999-01-10
Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1998-07-17
Godzilla
1998-05-20
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1997-04-23
Paradise Road
1997-02-11
Spy Hard
1996-05-24
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
1996-05-20
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
1995-11-12
Top Dog
1995-04-28
Deconstructing Sarah
1994-12-16
Dream Lover
1993-10-24
And the Band Played On
1993-09-11
Rising Sun
1993-07-30
In the Line of Fire
1993-07-08
Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993-05-21
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993-05-07
Silent Cries
1993-03-08
Made in America
1993-01-06
Baby of the Bride
1991-12-22
Jailbirds
1991-05-16
The Perfect Weapon
1991-03-15
Lies Before Kisses
1991-03-03
And the Sea Will Tell
1991-02-24
Pizza Man
1991-01-01
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
1990-11-25
Thanksgiving Day
1990-11-19
Bird on a Wire
1990-05-18
Gross Anatomy
1989-10-20
Wired
1989-08-25
Turner & Hooch
1989-07-28
The Road Raiders
1989-04-25
Run Till You Fall
1988-09-09
Laguna Heat
1987-11-15
Intimate Encounters
1986-09-28
Shanghai Surprise
1986-08-29
Streets of Justice
1985-11-10
Volunteers
1985-08-16
Velvet
1984-08-27
Allison Sydney Harrison
1983-08-19
Lookin' to Get Out
1982-10-08
The Challenge
1982-07-23
...All the Marbles
1981-03-01
A Perfect Match
1980-10-05
Meteor
1979-10-19
The Frisco Kid
1979-07-06
Dr. Strange
1978-09-06
Go Tell the Spartans
1978-07-12
The Choirboys
1977-12-23
Oh, God!
1977-10-07
Black Sunday
1977-04-01
Alex & the Gypsy
1976-10-03
Midway
1976-06-18
Farewell to Manzanar
1976-03-11
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