Clyde Kusatsu

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Clyde Kusatsu born September 13 1948 is a US 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 mid1970s 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 middleclass types With his quiet wry line delivery Kusatsu made a memorably clever and hilarious sparring partner for Archie Bunker Carroll OConnor on several episodes of All in the Family as the Reverend Chong refusing to baptize Archies grandson without the permission of the boys 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 198283 nor the Hawaiianset medical drama Island Son 198990 in which he played one of Richard Chamberlains 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 MOWs and miniseries 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 gueststarred on an episode of Lou Grant on Japanese internment in the US Golden Land 1988 a Hollywoodset drama based on a William Faulkner story and the AIDS drama And the Band Played On 1993 He appeared in four MASH episodes and later starred in the shortlived ABC series All American Girl 19941995 the first East Asian familiar sitcom in the US 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 Pollacks 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 amp Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay 2008 as Mr Lee Kusatsu is married to Gayle Kusatsu they have two sons Kevin and Andrew Description above from the Wikipedia article Clyde Kusatsu licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia