
Clyde Kusatsu
Biography
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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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Acting (83 movies)

The Interpreter
2005

Godzilla
1998

Shopgirl
2005

Babylon 5: Thirdspace
1998

...All the Marbles
1981

The Road Raiders
1989

Love Happens
2009

American Tragedy
2000

Extreme Dating
2005

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear
2004

Top Dog
1995

A Nanny for Christmas
2010

Drive Thru
2007

Gross Anatomy
1989

The Choirboys
1977

Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990

Dr. Strange
1978

The Moment
2013

Shanghai Surprise
1986

Allison Sydney Harrison
1983

Silent Cries
1993

Pizza Man
1991

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001

Deconstructing Sarah
1994

Site
2025

The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Blowhole
2012

Meteor
1979

Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999

Go Tell the Spartans
1978

And the Sea Will Tell
1991

Lookin' to Get Out
1982

Wired
1989

Run Till You Fall
1988

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
2008

Jailbirds
1991

Thanksgiving Day
1990

The Challenge
1982

Alex & the Gypsy
1976

Lies Before Kisses
1991

In the Line of Fire
1993

Farewell to Manzanar
1976

Paradise Road
1997

Justice League: Secret Origins
2001

American Pie
1999

The Perfect Weapon
1991

47 Ronin
2013

Turner & Hooch
1989

Hollywood Homicide
2003

The Face of Love
2013

Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms
2006

Spy Hard
1996

Intimate Encounters
1986

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993

Rising Sun
1993

Dream Lover
1994

In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
1990

Bird on a Wire
1990

Laguna Heat
1987

A Perfect Match
1980

Pretty Persuasion
2005

Volunteers
1985

Rumor Has It...
2005

Recess: School's Out
2001

Baby of the Bride
1991

Dr. Dolittle 2
2001

The Frisco Kid
1979

Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
2005

Black Sunday
1977

Oh, God!
1977

Midway
1976

The United States of Leland
2003

Paparazzi
2004

Velvet
1984

Raven: Return of the Black Dragons
1992

Made in America
1993

Hot Shots! Part Deux
1993

Streets of Justice
1985

And the Band Played On
1993

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins
1995

Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
2009

Aladdin and the King of Thieves
1996

Gimme an 'F'
1984

The Singing Detective
2003
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