
Clyde Kusatsu
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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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Known For

NCIS

ER

Quincy, M.E.

The Rockford Files

Hawaii Five-0

Walker, Texas Ranger

Beverly Hills, 90210

Monk

Simon & Simon

JAG

The Practice

Raising Hope

Boston Legal

Chicago Hope

L.A. Law

The Wild Thornberrys

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Magnum, P.I.

Remington Steele

Ally McBeal

Ironside

MacGyver

T. J. Hooker

Malcolm in the Middle

Nip/Tuck

Mannix

Knots Landing

Dear John

Alice

Family Matters

Cagney & Lacey

Shark

Dirty John

Hunter

New Girl

Providence

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Closer

The Facts of Life

Everwood

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Law & Order: LA

Wiseguy

Crazy like a Fox

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Murder, She Wrote

Kung Fu

Who's the Boss?

The Pretender

ALF

Never Have I Ever

Charmed

Superman: The Animated Series

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Lyon's Den

Dynasty

M*A*S*H

Hawaii Five-O

Batman Beyond

$#*! My Dad Says

Avatar: The Last Airbender

The Fall Guy

The Penguins of Madagascar

Tour of Duty

Touched by an Angel

BLUE EYE SAMURAI

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Jackie Chan Adventures

Stingray

Hello, Larry

All in the Family

The Really Loud House

A Different World

The West Wing

Chuck

Pantheon

Major Lazer

The Hogan Family

Ellery Queen

Justice League

City Guys

Avatar the Last Airbender

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

Taxi

The Lion Guard

Raven

Family Law

Lou Grant

Samurai Jack

The Marvel Action Hour The Fantastic Four

Spencer's Pilots

Dr. Dolittle 2

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay

Spy Hard

Recess: School's Out

Godzilla

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama

47 Ronin

Batman Beyond: The Movie

American Pie

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

Aladdin and the King of Thieves

Black Sunday

A Man on the Inside

Justice League: Secret Origins

Love Happens

A Nanny for Christmas

Bird on a Wire

In the Line of Fire

Paradise Road

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

Lies Before Kisses

The Perfect Weapon

The Interpreter

Laguna Heat

Babylon 5: Thirdspace

Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?

All-American Girl

Bring 'Em Back Alive

Dr. Strange
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