George Takei

At 87 years old, George Takei has this physical status:

Career

Takei began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s, providing voiceover for characters in the Japanese film Rodan (1956, US: 1957) and Godzilla Raids (1959, 1959). He appeared in Playhouse 90, the Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Blushing Pearls," (both 1959), and a handful of times in Hawaiian Eye during the 1960–61 season, including an eponymous episode as Thomas Jefferson Chu. He portrayed George in the musical Fly Blackbird, but actors in Los Angeles were forced to audition and the part went to William Sugihara instead. Sugihara had to step down the role and Takei's last months came to an end.

Takei continued to appear in films as Frank Sinatra (1959), Richard Burton in Never So Few (1960), Alec Guinness in A Majority of One (1961), and Cary Grant in Walk, Don't Run (1966).

In "The Encounter," a 1964 episode of the Twilight Zone, he appeared as a landscaper of Japanese descent. The episode's theme of US-Japanese phobia was considered "too sad" by CBS to include when the series was syndicated. After its first airing on television in 1992 as part of the Treasures of the Twilight Zone collection, "The Encounter" was not seen again.

During the first season of Mission: Impossible in 1966, Takei appeared in an episode. He appeared in two Jerry Lewis comedies, The Big Mouth (uncredited, 1967), and Which Way to the Front. (1970) Takei narrated the documentary The Sword As the Soul of the Samurai (1969).

In the second pilot for the original Star Trek television series in 1965, producer Gene Roddenberry portrayed Takei as an astronomic scientist Sulu. Takei continued in the role of Sulu, the ship's helmsman, as NBC broadcast it.

In the second season, it was intended that Sulu's role be expanded, but Takei's appearance in The Green Berets (1968) as Captain Nim, a South Vietnamese Army officer alongside John Wayne's character, kept him away from Star Trek filming, and he only appeared in half of the episodes. In the other episodes, Walter Koenig was substituted for him by Pavel Chekov. When Takei returned, the two guys had to share a dressing room and a single episode script. Takei admitted in an interview that he initially felt threatened by Koenig's presence but later became colleagues with him as the image of the officers sharing the ship's helm panel side-by-side became legendary.

Takei has since appeared in several television and film productions, reprising his role as Sulu in Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 to 1974 and in six Star Trek films, the last of which promoted his character to captain of his own starship. In the meantime, he has been a regular on the science fiction convention circuit around the world. He has appeared and performed in several science fiction computer games, including Freelancer and several Star Trek games. In 1996, Captain Sulu appeared on Star Trek: Voyager in honor of the 30th anniversary of the franchise.

With William Shatner, Takei has discussed personal difficulties. Takei, on the other hand, said of Shatner: "He's just a wonderful actor who created a singular character." Bill might not have done Kirk the way Bill did. Bill, he's got his energy and resolve. "That's also Captain Kirk." He appeared alongside Shatner on the 2006 Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner, in which the two mused each other in good humor and embraced, with Takei noting that he was "honored" to be there "despite our recent tensions."

Takei is also one of six actors (the others being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, Avery Brooks, and Majel Barrett) who has reprised his role as Captain Hikaru Sulu when the player visits the original Enterprise's bridge. Takei appeared in the fan-made Internet based series "World Enough and Time" in the summer of 2007.

Takei co-wrote the science-fiction book Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe with Robert Asprin in 1979.

To the Stars, Takei's autobiography, was published in 1994. At one point, he had hoped to make a film or telefilm based on chapters about the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II, of which he had personal knowledge.

Kaito Nakamura, a devoted Japanese businessman and father to one of the main characters, time/space traveller Hiro Nakamura, who also happens to be an avid Trek fan. The license plate of the limousine in which Takei appears is "Distractions" is NCC-1701, another reference to the Star Trek line. He appeared on all four seasons of the series.

Takei appeared on the first episode of Secret Talents of the Stars, performing country music, but was not chosen to advance to the next level. However, after the first episode, the whole thing became moot.

Get Me Out of Here! He appeared on the 8th season of the reality TV series I'm a Celebrity in 2008. The British ITV television network is available in the United Kingdom. He lived in the Australian bush for 21 days and nights, doing jobs with fellow campers in order to get better meals and prevent expulsion from the show. He was known among the other campers for his politeness and patience. He came in third place out of a total of 12 voters, behind 2nd placed Martina Navratilova and winner Joe Swash.

Takei appeared in an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars as the Neimoidian general, Lok Durd, for the first time a leading actor from Star Trek appeared in a Star Wars production. In April of this year, he appeared in the NASA animated short "Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Gravity and the Great Attractor," part of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's IRrelevant Astronomy. During a documentary short titled George & Brad in Bed (2009), Takei (and his partner Brad Altman) appeared in a documentary short titled George & Brad who chronicled their marriage and appeared on NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!

To help applicants apply for benefits online, Takei released a series of public service announcements for the Social Security Administration in 2010.

In 2011, he appeared alongside Brad Altman in All Star Mr & Mrs, a British television series hosted by Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton.

Takei was one of the stars of The Apprentice's 12th season. In the third episode, which aired on March 4, 2012, he was shot and killed.

Takei appeared in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's Play 8 — a staged reenactment of California's Protest 8 prohibition against same-sex marriages. To raise funds for the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the performance was staged at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and streamed on YouTube.

Takei appeared in the musical Allegiance in 2012, which Takei characterized as his legacy project. The exhibition is based on Takei's own experiences and inquiry into World War II's Japanese American internment. The show debuted at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, and was based on Takei's own experiences and study into the Japanese American internment of World War II. Allegiance debuted on Broadway on November 8, 2015 to mixed reviews. It was "unexceptional while often touching"; the Guardian described it as "a triumph of a rare sort," the newspaper said, "shedding light on a mysterious period of our history with exceptional generosity of spirit." The New York Times praised the "well-intentioned and polished" play for grappling with a difficult topic while still entertaining its audience, but Allegiance "struggles to strike a balance between both hopes and doesn't always find an equilibrium." According to the Associated Press, Allegiance is seeking to combat internment camps, misogulation, and war, "but it does so in a bombastic and generic Broadway musical." "The creatives have oversimplified and reduced it to generic themes in their sincere attempts to 'humanize' their tangled historical record," Variety said. "The powerful sentiments in Jay Kuo's score are too often flattened by the pedestrian lyrics and unmemorable melodies," the Hollywood reporter said. Allegiance "as corny as Kansas in August" and "as bold as Lady Gaga on a red carpet," USA Today said. However, it will be darned if it doesn't get a grip on your heartstrings."

Takei was a guest judge on the TBS reality show King of the Nerds, in which he is one of three judges of the Cosplay Competition.

Takei's Take, a web series examining consumer electronics in a way that audiences over 50 years old, began on September 17, 2013. The AARP produces the collection.

In issue no. 1, Takei made a public appearance. Takei is one of his heroes in Kevin Keller's story, where the titular character names him as one of his heroes. Takei and his partner, Kevin, love Kevin, and they want to surprise Kevin after finding out about him. Takei also wrote the foreword to the second volume of the Kevin Keller comics.

Takei appeared in Bonnie McKee's song "American Girl" lip syncing the lyrics to her song.

Takei, an American furniture chain, became the spokesperson for Rooms To Go, an American furniture store, starting in 2013. In a string of television commercials in which he used his famous "Oh Myyy!" he was seen. The tag line was used to define the page.

To Be Takei, Jennifer Kroot's documentary film about Takei, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. He also appeared in Do I Sound Gay?, a David Thorpe documentary film about gay men's speech patterns.

He created It Takes Two, a YouTube mini-series starring himself and Altman, in 2015, which also includes Internet culture. The series ran for nine episodes.

Takei was featured in television commercials promoting the restaurant Pizza Hut in early 2017.

Takei released They Called Us Enemy, a 208-page graphic autobiography with a particular focus on his family's time in internment, co-written with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker in 2019. In 2020, the book was a recipient of the American Book Award. Who's on Top? He narrated the film Who's on Top? In 2020, there will be no such thing as a flagship city in the United Kingdom. Brig. In June 2021, Dean of the United States Air Force Academy Brig. Brig. They Called Us Enemy, which details Takei's struggle with internment and a knowledge of American democracy, will be included in the Academy's recent reading program for cadets, according to Gen. Linell Letendre. George Takei, the NCLS Kickoff speaker at USAFA, debating his book and how his experience influenced his destiny on February 23, 2022.

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