Brian Tochi
Brian Tochi was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on May 2nd, 1963 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 60, Brian Tochi biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Brian Keith Tochi (born Brian Keith Tochihara, 1959) is an American actor and voice actress.
He was one of the most commonly seen East Asian child actors in U.S. television from the 1960s to 1970s, appearing in numerous television series and nearly a hundred ads.
He is best known for his character Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds film franchise, Cadet (later Lieutenant) Tomoko Nogata from the third and fourth films in the Police Academy film series, as the voice of Leonardo in the first three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films.
Career
Tochi's first appearance in the short-lived television series He & She (1967–68, with Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss) as their newly adopted son. It was also written by Leonard Stern and cowritten by Chris Hayward and Allan Burns, starring Jack Cassidy as an egomaniacal character and Hamilton Camp. Tochi appeared in "And the Children Shall Lead," a third-season installment of Star Trek, that same year. Other appearances followed, including guest appearances on such popular shows as The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, and Adam-12.
In Anna and the King on CBS, Tochi's debut as a series regular was as Yul Brynner's oldest son and heir Crown Prince Chulalongkorn. It was based on Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, and also starred Samantha Eggar and Keye Luke. Despite the fact that the series was short-lived, Tochi and Brynner remained friends until Brynner's death in 1985. Tochi was portrayed alongside Luke in his first animated television series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, and Jodie Foster, a teenager who portrayed one of the Chan sisters, was also cast.
After both series ended, guest-starring roles followed, including Karl Malden and Michael Douglas; and Kung Fu with David Carradine, Tochi's first guest appearance of three Kung Fu episodes he appeared in). In a gritty two-part episode of Police Story on NBC, Tochi also played an undercover informant who was beaten and killed. Marcus Welby, M.D., was another actor on the Robert Young medical drama.
Tochi spent time in theatre, this time reprising his role as Crown Prince Chulalongkorn in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera's revival of the musical The King and I at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He co-starred with actor Rizhon as the King of Siam, a performance that would later accompany the film as it went on tour.
Tochi starred in another TV series Space Academy (1977–1979) with veteran actor Jonathan Harris (best known as Dr. Smith from Lost in Space). Space Academy was the most expensive Saturday morning television program in broadcast history up until that point. Tee Gar Soom's character was strength and maintained his Asian ancestors' martial arts heritage. Tochi was invited to film a 20-minute promotional "behind-the-scenes" visit to the Space Academy during the show's hiatus. CBS' Razzmatazz, a famous daytime program, was used on CBS. Razzmatazz was a highly regarded news magazine program created by 60 Minutes wizard Don Hewitt and produced by Joel Heller with the same production team as CBS' In The News' long-running Saturday morning news services for children. Razzmatazz originally starred Barry Bostwick, but he later decided to leave the show for a career in film to cash in on his newly released cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The television network begged Tochi to take their own daytime program, which aired on the network for four years as the early 1980s.
Other appearances include a guest stint on Wonder Woman, a recurring character in Hawaii's tropically set Hawaii Five-O, starring actor Jack Lord, a two-hour television film We're Fighting Back (with Ellen Barkin and Stephen Lang), and regular television appearances in the television dramas St. Elsewhere and Santa Barbara are two separate locations. He appeared in scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation later in his career (making him one of only a handful of living actors to ever have appeared on the original Star Trek series and a sequel spin-off). In "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium," the ninth episode of the television show "The Twilight Zone's first season, Tochi appeared as the titular character. The episode is based on William F. Wu's short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium," which was first published in Amazing Stories in 1983. This episode was stretched into a half-hour run time for syndication, as it was recently shown on the Chiller TV network.
He starred in the short lived ABC TV series The Renegades as the martial arts specialist and former gang leader known as Dragon. Tochi later joined the team that created and delivered the cutting edge educational news service Channel One News, then, demonstrating his journalistic talents. His hosting and Narrating roles expanded during his two-and-a-half years, using his skills as a writer, producer, and segment producer. He was later named Chief Foreign correspondent for the show.
Tochi co-wrote, produced, and directed Tales of a Fly on the Wall, a scripted, live-action comedy starring several of his acquaintances; it also stars Larry Browne, Resurrection of the Nerds co-star Curtis Armstrong, and his Police Academy 3: Back in Training co-star Leslie Easterbrook. He was one of the top writers of the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Screenplay Awards in 2005, winning top prizes for co-writing the screenplay "In the Heat of the Light" in the film. He continues to work in filmmaking, production, and screenwriting.
Tochi has also appeared in many animated films, computer games, and animated cartoon series, including Bionic Six (all 65 episodes), The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (as its main actor Liu Kang). In the first three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films in the early 1990s, he appeared as Leonardo. In addition, he is the voice of the Chinese soldier who controls the Great Wall in Disney's Mulan, and he appeared in Batman Beyond, As Told by Ginger, Kim Possible, Static Shock, Family Guy, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.