Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu

Clyde Kusatsu (born September 13, 1948) is a Japanese-American actor who appears in a total of four episodes of the CBS-TV series All in the Family, as Reverend Chong (All in the Family), the new lead pastor of the local church which Edith Bunker attends and is a member of in tree episodes; "Joey's Baptism" in Season 6 (#22), "The Stivics Go West" in Season 8 (#24), and "Stephanie's Conversion" in Season 9 (#20).

Kusatsu was also the English teacher in American Pie, Dr. Okamura on The Young and the Restless, Principal Shimata on Family Matters, and Mr. Lee (the father of John Cho's character) in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. And to Star Trek fans he'll forever be remembered for his recurring role as Vice Admiral Nakamura on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He appeared in three TNG episodes, "The Measure of a Man," "Phantasms" and "All Good Things..."

Kusatsu has been 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. (Kusatsu also guest-starred on an episode of Lou Grant on Japanese internment in the U.S.).

Other television films 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); Golden Land (1988), a Hollywood-set drama based on a William Faulkner story; and the AIDS drama And the Band Played On (1993). Kustatsu also made several guest appearances on Wikipedia:Star Trek: The Next Generation as Starfleet Vice Admiral Nakamura, appeared in four M*A*S*H episodes and later starred in the short-lived ABC-TV series All American Girl (1994–1995), the first Asian American family 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 the Clint Eastwood movie In the Line of Fire (1993, as a United States 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.

Appearances

• 1976-1978 All in the Family Reverend Chong (All in the Family) 3 episodes
• 1979 Supertrain Shimaju Fukuda Episode: "The Green Girl"
• 1976 Farewell to Manzanar (Movie) Teddy Wakatsuki Television film

Co-starring on All-American Girl

Episode	Title	Air Date
S1.E1	Mom, Dad, This Is Kyle	Wed, Sep 14, 1994
S1.E2	Submission: Impossible	Wed, Sep 21, 1994
S1.E3	Who's the Boss	Wed, Sep 28, 1994
S1.E4	Yung at Heart	Wed, Oct 5, 1994
S1.E5	Redesigning Women	Wed, Oct 12, 1994
S1.E6	Booktopus	Wed, Oct 19, 1994
S1.E7	Mommie Nearest	Wed, Oct 26, 1994
S1.E8	Take My Family, Please	Wed, Nov 2, 1994
S1.E9	Exile on Market Street	Wed, Nov 16, 1994
S1.E10	Ratting on Ruthie	Wed, Nov 23, 1994
S1.E11	Educating Margaret	Wed, Nov 30, 1994
S1.E12	Loveless in San Francisco	Wed, Dec 7, 1994
S1.E13	Malpractice Makes Perfect	Wed, Dec 14, 1994
S1.E14	The Apartment	Wed, Jan 11, 1995
S1.E15	Notes from the Underground	Wed, Jan 18, 1995
S1.E16	Venus de Margaret	Wed, Jan 25, 1995
S1.E17	A Night at the Oprah	Tue, Feb 14, 1995
S1.E18	Pulp Sitcom	Wed, Feb 22, 1995
S1.E19	Young Americans	Wed, Mar 15, 1995

Links

• CK on his 3 ST:TNG Appearances
• Vice Admiral Nakamura