1923-04-03 ( 102 years old ) in Delta County, Colorado, USA
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Dale Ishimoto (April 3, 1923 – March 4, 2004) was an American actor of Japanese descent. He was born in Delta, Colorado in 1923 and was raised in Guadalupe, California.
After being sent to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona, Ishimoto volunteered to fight in World War II, joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After two years, he was awarded a Purple Heart and given a medical discharge.
After starting a business in Chicago, he moved back to California, where he grew up, and started his acting career by acting at the Altadena Playhouse. He became a "familiar figure" for playing "villainous Japanese soldiers".
Over the course of his career, he acted in a wide variety of movies, such as a Japanese army captain in Beach Red (1967), a Korean doctor in MASH (1970), a karate instructor in Superchick (1973), and as Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya in Midway (1976).
He became famous in the late 1990s for his appearances in television commercials for Nissan in which he portrayed Yutaka Katayama, the company's former president. He also appeared in one episode of Wanted:Dead or Alive"
Movies
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000-08-01
Inconceivable
1998-01-10
Beverly Hills Ninja
1997-01-17
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
1994-01-23
Come See the Paradise
1990-08-17
Ninja III: The Domination
1984-09-14
Cannonball Run II
1984-06-29
Dangerous Company
1982-02-09
Enter the Ninja
1981-07-17
Mad Bull
1977-12-21
Midway
1976-06-18
Sharks' Treasure
1975-04-18
When the North Wind Blows
1974-01-14
The Games
1970-08-07
M*A*S*H
1970-02-18
Cocoon
1968-09-20
Beach Red
1967-08-03
King Rat
1965-10-27
Moro Witch Doctor
1964-11-01
The Nun and the Sergeant
1962-01-01
Operation Bottleneck
1961-04-07
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960-12-29
Run Silent, Run Deep
1958-03-27
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