
Clyde Kusatsu
Birthday: 1948-09-13
Place of Birth: 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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Midway, 1976
Action
Drama
Historical
War

Turner & Hooch, 1989
Action
Comedy
Thriller
Detective

Bird on a Wire, 1990
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Romance

In the Line of Fire, 1993
Action
Drama
Thriller
Detective
Mystery

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, 1993
Drama
Historical
Action

Hot Shots! Part Deux, 1993
Action
Comedy
War

Made in America, 1993
Comedy

Rising Sun, 1993
Action
Drama
Thriller

Aladdin and the King of Thieves, 1996
Adventure
Animation

Spy Hard, 1996
Comedy
Action

Godzilla, 1998
Sci-Fi
Action
Thriller

American Pie, 1999
Comedy
Romance

Dr. Dolittle 2, 2001
Comedy
Romance
Fantasy

Recess: School's Out, 2001
Animation

Hollywood Homicide, 2003
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Thriller

The United States of Leland, 2003
Detective
Drama

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear, 2004
Adventure
Action
Fantasy

The Interpreter, 2005
Detective
Thriller

Rumor Has It..., 2005
Comedy
Romance

Shopgirl, 2005
Comedy
Drama
Romance

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, 2008
Comedy
Adventure

Love Happens, 2009
Drama
Romance

47 Ronin, 2013
Drama
Action
Fantasy