Born: December 10, 1933
Died: July 21, 2006

Japanese actor Mako, born Makoto Iwamatsu, has spent most of his professional career in the United States. His first important film appearance was as Po-Han, Steve McQueen's assistant machinist, in The_Sand_Pebbles (1966), a performance that earned him an Oscar nomination. He remained in films into the 1990s, playing choice character parts in such films as Hawaiians (1967), Conan the Destroyer (1984), and Rising_Sun (1993). Mako's TV credits include the role of Major Oshira on the weekly Hawaiian_Heat (1984) and the 1990 TV movie Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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