Sab Shimono
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Sab Shimono | |
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| Born | Saburo Shimono |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1966–present |
Sab Shimono (born July 31, 1943) is an American actor. He has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, in character roles ranging from the coroner "Painless" Kumagai in 1990's Presumed Innocent to Mister Sparkle on an episode of The Simpsons and Harold who advertises the doomsday in Flushed Away but was uncredited.
Personal life
Shimono, a Japanese American, was born Saburo Shimono (下野 三郎, Shimono Saburō) in Sacramento, California, the son of restaurant owners Edith Mary (née Otani) and Masauchi Shimono.[1] Shimono is the twin brother of Dr. Jiro Shimono, director of the Delaware Psychiatric Center. Shimono is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
An accomplished stage actor as well, he has appeared on Broadway and in regional theaters including San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He was cast as Ito opposite Angela Lansbury's Auntie Mame in Jerry Herman's Broadway musical hit Mame in 1966. This was followed by Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970), Ride the Winds (1974), and the role of Manjiro in Stephen Sondheim & Harold Prince's Pacific Overtures (1976). In 2010 he appeared in the world premiere of No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki based on the novel by John Okada.
One of his more memorable film roles was as Hiroshi Kawamura in the 1990 drama Come See The Paradise. He can also be seen in Asian American independent films, The Sensei (2008), Americanese (2009) and Life Tastes Good (1999).
Shimono provided the voices of antique-shop owner/Chi Wizard Uncle Chan on the hit TV series Jackie Chan Adventures and of Airbending Master Monk Gyatso and Master Yu on the popular series Avatar: The Last Airbender. In 2009, he appeared in Old Dogs, alongside John Travolta and Robin Williams, as Japanese billionaire Yoshiro Nishamura, who works in Tokyo, Japan.
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External links
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- Sab Shimono at New York Times Movies [1]
- Sab Shimono at Rotten Tomatoes [2]
- Sab Shimono at Internet Broadway Database [3]
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