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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 MAS*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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Release Date:21/10/2005
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The Interpreter
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Release Date:08/04/2005
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Release Date:08/04/2005
Pretty Persuasion
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Release Date:22/01/2005
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Release Date:03/09/2004
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The Singing Detective
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Hollywood Homicide
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Release Date:09/06/2003
The United States of Leland
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Release Date:15/05/2003
Justice League: Secret Origins
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The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
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Dr. Dolittle 2
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Release Date:22/06/2001
Recess: School's Out
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Release Date:16/02/2001
American Tragedy
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Release Date:12/11/2000
American Pie
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Release Date:09/07/1999
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Release Date:10/01/1999
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Release Date:17/07/1998
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Release Date:20/05/1998
Paradise Road
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Spy Hard
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Release Date:24/05/1996
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Release Date:20/05/1996
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Release Date:12/11/1995
Top Dog
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Release Date:28/04/1995
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Release Date:16/12/1994
Dream Lover
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Release Date:11/11/1994
And the Band Played On
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Release Date:11/09/1993
Rising Sun
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Release Date:30/07/1993
In the Line of Fire
Character:Jack Okura
Release Date:08/07/1993
Hot Shots! Part Deux
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Release Date:21/05/1993
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
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Release Date:07/05/1993
Silent Cries
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Release Date:08/03/1993
Made in America
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Release Date:06/01/1993
Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
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Release Date:19/06/1992
Baby of the Bride
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Release Date:22/12/1991
Jailbirds
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Release Date:16/05/1991
The Perfect Weapon
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Release Date:15/03/1991
Lies Before Kisses
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Release Date:03/03/1991
And the Sea Will Tell
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Release Date:24/02/1991
Pizza Man
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Release Date:01/01/1991
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
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Release Date:25/11/1990
Thanksgiving Day
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Release Date:19/11/1990
Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
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Release Date:03/06/1990
Bird on a Wire
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Release Date:18/05/1990
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Release Date:20/10/1989
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Release Date:25/08/1989
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Release Date:28/07/1989
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Release Date:25/04/1989
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Laguna Heat
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Intimate Encounters
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Streets of Justice
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Alex & the Gypsy
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Farewell to Manzanar
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Release Date:11/03/1976
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