Actor. He is best remembered for his portrayal of the strong-willed Leva in "The Snow Creature" (1954). Born into a traditional working-class family, following the death of his mother, he and his father immigrated to the United States to begin a new life in San Gabriel Valley, California, working as businessmen in the plumbing and heating industry. While being imprisoned at the Manzanar Concentration Camp, he developed an interest in acting often performing dramatic readings for children as well as introverted performances for other adults. Upon his release during the end of the war, he resettled in Los Angeles, California, and began his professional career working in stock companies. While attending a casting call for bit players, he was discovered by director Stuart Heisler. Impressed by his dark good looks, articulate voice, and humble charm, he took notice of his potential and arranged for him to begin a career in the film industry beginning with him being under his supervision per a supporting role in "Tokyo Joe" (1949). From there, he would go on to enjoy a successful career as a notable character actor in over 50 features; often typecast as husbands, fathers, authority figures, white-collared workers, pilots, adventurers, soldiers, politicians, lawyers, kindly neighbors, landlords, restaurateurs, curmudgeons, retail clerks, businessmen, faithful servants, loyal friends, and patriarchs. He appeared in such feature films as "Three Came Home" (1950), "Go for Broke!" (1951), "Back at the Front" (1952), "South Sea Woman" (1953), "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (1954), "House of Bamboo" (1955), "Navy Wife" (1956), "20 Million Miles to Earth" (1957), "Battle at the Coral Sea" (1959), "The Gallant Hours" (1960), "A Girl Named Tamiko" (1962), "Morituri" (1965), "Walk Don't Run" (1966), "The Hindenburg" (1975), "Foul Play" (1978), "Americathon" (1979), and "Honky Tonk Freeway" (1981). During the advent of television, he became an even more familiar face appearing in various guest spots on such syndicated sitcoms as "Navy Log," "Steve Canyon," "The Silent Service," "Flight," "Hawaiian Eye," "Perry Mason," "Saints and Sinners," "McHale's Navy," "The Wackiest Ship in the Army," "Love on a Rooftop," "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Black Sheep Squadron," "Happy Days," "M*A*S*H," and "Alice". During his career, he was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, was supportive of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, had been a regular parishioner of the Presbyterian church, had been an active member of the Hollywood Republican Committee, had been a theatrical instructor for the Pasadena Playhouse, was one of the founding members of the Canyon Theatre Guild, had been a chairman for his local charters of the American Red Cross and the Boys Scouts, and he was married to stage actress Shigeyo Ito from 1934 until her death in 1982 (their union produced one child). Upon his 1981 retirement, he spent the final years of his life being a regular attendee at autograph conventions, and was involved in numerous charitable and religious causes, until his death from the complications of undisclosed causes.