George Takei Birthday: April 20, 1937 Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, USA Height: 5' 8"
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Asian-American actor George Takei studied architecture at the University of California and theatre arts at UCLA. Takei's first film appearance was in the 1960 Warner Bros. feature Ice Palace He appeared with regularity on series television in the early 1960s; his most controversial TV role was the son of a World War II traitor in the 1964 Twilight Zone episode "The Encounter," which was withdrawn from the series' syndicated package due to charges of misrepresentation from several Japanese-American groups. In 1966, Takei began what was to become a lifelong assignment when he was cast as chief navigator Hikaru Sulu on the evergreen science-fiction series Star Trek. He has extended this characterization into seven Star Trek feature films, as well as a Saturday morning cartoon series. Erudite and socially correct at all times, Takei nonetheless enjoyed a reputation as Star Trek's most aggressive on-set practical joker. When not before the cameras, George Takei keeps busy with Southern California political and civic activities.
During WWII, lived with his family in several government internment camps for people of Japanese descent.
Graduate of UCLA
In 1996, Takei became the first Star Trek actor to go to a South American convention, in São Paulo, Brazil.
When he met with Gene Roddenberry about a role on Star Trek, Roddenberry called him Takei (pronouncing it "Ta-kai"), which translates from Japanese to "expensive" (his name is pronounced "Ta-kay". It rhymes with "OK"). This is how Roddenberry remembered his name.
He initially declined to appear in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), but William Shatner personally called him and persuaded him to star in the film.
Among his first acting jobs was as a voice artist. Although he was only a teenager, he dubbed English dialog for adult characters in Japanese films being released in the United States.
He initially objected to the scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) where the big Starfleet guard calls him "tiny." When the scene was screened for audiences, the audiences cheered Sulu (Takei) when he defeated the big guard, and Takei later apologized to writer Harve Bennett for it.
Has stated that his favourite Star Trek episode is "The Naked Time".
A favorite of the Howard Stern audience.
His family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Arkansas when he was 4 to 8 years old. He learned to recite The Pledge of Allegiance while surrounded by guard towers and barbed-wire fences.
Along with Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Picardo, he is one of only three "Star Trek" regulars to wear all three uniform colours. He wore blue (medical/science) uniform in the second "Star Trek" (1966) pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the gold (command) uniform in every subsequent episode of the series in which he appeared and the red (security) uniform in "Mirror, Mirror".
Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" (1966), "Diagnosis Murder" (1993) and "Futurama" (1999).
Has appeared in episodes of three different series with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols: "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Trek" (1973) and "Futurama" (1999).
Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Grace Lee Whitney: "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Diagnosis Murder" (1993).
Has been a jogger for many years, and runs marathons.
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