Dale Ishimoto
Acting
Awards
Won 1 Purple Heart Award
Purple Heart 1 won
- — Purple Heart Won
Award data from Wikidata (CC0). Coverage may be incomplete.
Read biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dale Ishimoto (April 3, 1923 – March 4, 2004) was an American actor of Japanese descent. He was born in Delta, Colorado in 1923 and was raised in Guadalupe, California.
After being sent to the Gila River internment camp in Arizona, Ishimoto volunteered to fight in World War II, joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After two years, he was awarded a Purple Heart and given a medical discharge.
After starting a business in Chicago, he moved back to California, where he grew up, and started his acting career by acting at the Altadena Playhouse. He became a "familiar figure" for playing "villainous Japanese soldiers".
Over the course of his career, he acted in a wide variety of movies, such as a Japanese army captain in Beach Red (1967), a Korean doctor in MASH (1970), a karate instructor in Superchick (1973), and as Vice Admiral Boshiro Hosogaya in Midway (1976).
He became famous in the late 1990s for his appearances in television commercials for Nissan in which he portrayed Yutaka Katayama, the company's former president. He also appeared in one episode of Wanted:Dead or Alive"
Not enough member ratings yet.
Sign in to rate.
Filmography
Acting
38 credits
Perry Mason
The A-Team
Mission: Impossible
The Twilight Zone
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Odd Couple
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
The Bill Cosby Show
Midway
Beverly Hills Ninja
M*A*S*H
The Beachcomber
Cannonball Run II
The King and I
Run Silent, Run Deep
King Rat
Ninja III: The Domination
Come See the Paradise
Dangerous Company
The Great Impostor
Sharks' Treasure
Smorgasbord
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
Beach Red
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
The Games
PT 109
Mad Bull
Inconceivable
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance
Kung Fu
Enter the Ninja
The Nun and the Sergeant
Moro Witch Doctor
Cocoon
Operation Bottleneck
When the North Wind Blows
Other credits
11 credits
Love, American Style
Quincy, M.E.
Have Gun, Will Travel
Hawaiian Eye
Family Affair
Sea Hunt
McHale's Navy
Rambo: The Force of Freedom
Panic!
Philip Marlowe
The Sweet and the Bitter
Track what you watch
DuckTrack members see which of these they have already watched,
right here on this page.
Create a free account
Comments
0 commentsNo comments yet. Sign in to be the first.