Henry Nakamura(1928-2016)

Actor

[Mr. Nakamura] graduated from Farrington High School and the University of Hawaii. A Korean War veteran, he served with a military intelligence unit. He worked in Hollywood during the 1950s in a career that spanned nearly ten years. He appeared in "Go For Broke", Westward, the Women", Blood Alley", "Unchained Melody", "Athena" and "Lafayette Escadrille". In 1961 he entered Federal Service and worked in Okinawa for over 32 years, retiring in 1993. [Upon his death at age 87, he was] survived by wife Koto, son Derek (Joyce), brothers Wilfred & George and sisters Mary Murakami (Charles) and Mabel Nakamura and several nieces and nephews. Private services were held in Okinawa.

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Known for

Athena

5.9

1954

Go for Broke!

6.6

Tommy

1951

Lafayette Escadrille

5.5

Jimmy

1958

Feng ye qing

Kato

1952

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Actor

Lafayette Escadrille
5.5
- Jimmy
- 1958
Blood Alley
6.2
- Tack - Engineer (uncredited)
- 1955
Unchained
6.1
- Jerry Hakara (uncredited)
- 1955
Athena
5.9
- Roy
- 1954
Feng ye qing
- Kato
- 1952
Westward the Women
7.6
- Ito Kentaro
- 1951
Go for Broke!
6.6
- Tommy
- 1951

Personal details

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Born
- December 5, 1928
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Died
- February 6, 2016
- Okinawa, Japan(pneumonia)
Spouse
- Koto(1 child)

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Trivia
Originally put in an internment camp following Pearl Harbor, but he left and joined the Navy and became a Japanese interpreter for the American Navy; in Blood Alley (1955), he wears a U.S.N. insignia on the back of his jacket, which might just have been his own.