Sab Shimono

Sab Shimono
Born	July 31, 1943 (1943-07-31) (age 66) Sacramento, California

Sab Shimono (born July 31, 1943) is a Japanese 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.

Biography

Personal life

Shimono was born Saburo Shimono 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). One of his more memorable 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 voice of Antique shop owner/Chi Wizard, Uncle Chan, on the hit TV series Jackie Chan Adventures and Airbending Master, Monk Gyatso and Master Yu on the also popular series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

References

External links

• Sab Shimono at the Internet Movie Database
• 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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