Cast & creator

Clyde Kusatsu

1948-09-13 (age 78) Honolulu, Hawaii, USAIMDb

Best known for NCIS, NCIS, Hawaii Five-0

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Clyde Kusatsu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as: كلَيد كوساتسو

Movies

film credits

Series

183

television credits

Career

272

1967–2026 · acting roles

Credit score

6.9

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 7.6

NCIS

Benjamin Franklin · 2003

★ 7.6

NCIS

Mr. Rin · 2003

★ 7.7

Hawaii Five-0

Judge Kamalei · 2010

★ 7.3

JAG

Capt. Morimoto · 1995

★ 7.3

JAG

Senator Theodore Fujiwara · 1995

Across film & television

Filmography (272)

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Clyde Kusatsu

Known for

NCIS

NCIS

Hawaii Five-0

JAG

JAG

Filmography (272)

NCIS

NCIS

Hawaii Five-0

JAG

JAG

Charmed

The West Wing

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Monk

Beverly Hills, 90210

Beverly Hills, 90210

Chicago Hope

MacGyver

MacGyver

The Closer

Nip/Tuck

ER

Knots Landing

Murder, She Wrote

The Practice

Hawaii Five-O

Malcolm in the Middle

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

Numb3rs

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

New Girl

Touched by an Angel

L.A. Law

Strong Medicine

Boston Legal

Mannix

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Madam Secretary

Ironside

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E.

Taxi

The Legend of Korra

Dynasty

The Rockford Files

Party of Five

Chuck

Everwood

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

Jackie Chan Adventures

T. J. Hooker

Family Matters

A Different World

The Division

Simon & Simon

Alice

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

The Facts of Life

The Penguins of Madagascar

Cagney & Lacey

Who's the Boss?

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

The Pretender

Superman: The Animated Series

Remington Steele

The Wild Thornberrys

Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack

Samurai Jack

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

MAS*H

MAS*H