Biographies: Teru Shimada - Actor

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A Japanese-American actor, born as Akita Shimada in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. He has never been married. He worked in cinema and television and presented Japanese military and civilian characters such as a judge, a gardener, and a villager. After he immigrated to the United States in the mid-twenties, he attended college for two years, then worked as a doorman at the Granada Theater, then began taking acting lessons. He was arrested during World War II. After the war, he appeared in cinema and television during the fifties and sixties, and retired in the mid-seventies. Among his notable works are You Only Live Twice (1967), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Battle of the Coral Sea (1959). He died in Encino, California, USA, on June 19, 1988, at the age of 81.

• 2 May 2023
• Shaimaa Saied