Clyde Kusatsu
Acting
1948-09-13 - Present
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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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Credits
American PieasEnglish Teacher
Dr. Dolittle 2asBee (voice)
47 RoninasDrunk Official
GodzillaasJapanese Tanker Skipper
MidwayasCmdr. Watanabe
Aladdin and the King of ThievesasAdditional Voice Talents (voice)
Hot Shots! Part DeuxasPrime Minister Soto
Bird on a WireasMr. Takawaki
Dragon: The Bruce Lee StoryasHistory Teacher
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo BayasMr. Lee
In the Line of FireasJack Okura
Spy HardasNoggin
Recess: School's OutasMr. Yamashiro (voice)
Rumor Has It...asConference Attendee
The Librarian: Quest for the SpearasHead Monk
The InterpreterasPolice Chief Lee Wu
Dream LoverasJudge Kurita
Love HappensasCab Driver
Hollywood HomicideasCoroner Chung
Dr. StrangeasWong
Kim Possible Movie: So the DramaasNakasumi (voice; uncredited)
Rising SunasTanaka
The Perfect WeaponasDetective Wong
Turner & HoochasKevin Williams
Hellboy Animated: Sword of StormsasAdditional Voices (voice)
The United States of LelandasJudge
Drive ThruasFred Fukizaki
Curious George: A Very Monkey ChristmasasThe Grocer (voice)
Pretty PersuasionasJudge Carl Munro
And the Band Played OnasBlood Bank Executive
Made in AmericaasBob Takashima
MeteorasYamashiro
VolunteersasSouvanna
Justice League: Secret OriginsasJapanese Ambassador (voice)
Gross AnatomyasInterviewing Professor
ShopgirlasMr. Agasa
Babylon 5: ThirdspaceasBill Morishi
Oh, God!asSupermarket Employee (uncredited)
The Face of LoveasSushi Chef
Top DogasCapt. Callahan
Shanghai SurpriseasJoe Go
Batman Beyond: The MovieasWrestling Coach (voice)
A Nanny for ChristmasasMr. Halligan
The Frisco KidasMr. Ping
Paradise RoadasSergeant Tomiashi, 'The Snake'
Black SundayasFreighter Captain
PaparazziasDr. Hanson
The ChallengeasGo
Go Tell the SpartansasCol. Minh
The ChoirboysasFrancis Tanaguchi
...All the MarblesasClyde Yamashito
And the Sea Will TellasEnoki
WiredasCoroner Thomas Noguchi
Pizza ManasFormer Prime Minister Nakasone
Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu StranglerasLt. Arioto
National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly SinsasSaint Peter
The MomentasDr. Nunakawa
Extreme DatingasJoe
The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation BlowholeasShingen (voice)
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of DonnieasSun Bear (voice)
Allison Sydney HarrisonasJimmy
Silent CriesasSaburo Saigo
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the KillingasMatsumo
Baby of the BrideasDr. Chang
VelvetasDr. Yashima
Farewell to ManzanarasTeddy Wakatsuki
Laguna HeatasCoroner
Sex Tax: Based on a True StoryasJudge
American TragedyasJudge Lance Ito
Thanksgiving DayasBanker
Raven: Return of the Black DragonsasKen Tanaka
The Road RaidersasShimoto
Intimate EncountersasProfessor Ikeda
Alex & the GypsyasX-Ray Technician
Lookin' to Get OutasParking Attendant - Gets the China Speech
Deconstructing SarahasOfficer Okawa
Lies Before KissesasLieutenant Hand
A Perfect MatchasDr. Tommy Chang
Streets of JusticeasDr. Edwards
JailbirdsasKasaki
SiteasKen Tanaka
Run Till You FallasFujimoto