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Pat Morita

Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita (June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005) was an American actor of Japanese descent who was well-known for playing the role of Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on Happy Days and as Mr. Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, in which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.

Known For: Acting

Born: Isleton, California, USA, 1932-06-28

Died: 2005-11-24

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Car Thieves	Komugi	0
2	1967	Thoroughly Modern Millie	Oriental #2	69
3	1968	The Shakiest Gun in the West	Wong	62
4	1972	Evil Roy Slade	Turhan	62
5	1972	A Very Missing Person	Delmar Faulkenstein	80
6	1972	Where Does It Hurt?	Harry Nishimoto	51
7	1972	Cancel My Reservation	Yamamoto	53
8	1973	Brock's Last Case	Sam Wong	40
9	1974	Punch and Jody	Takahasi	0
10	1975	I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?	Heshy Yamamoto	28
11	1976	Farewell to Manzanar	Zenahiro	60
12	1976	Midway	Rear Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka	66
13	1978	Human Feelings	Waiter	0
14	1980	When Time Ran Out...	Sam	53
15	1980	For the Love of It	Ishihara	30
16	1980	Hito Hata: Raise the Banner	Yamada	0
17	1981	Crash Island	Kazi Yamamora	0
18	1981	Full Moon High	The Silversmith	43
19	1982	Savannah Smiles	Father O'Hara	64
20	1982	Jimmy the Kid	Maurice	51
21	1982	Slapstick of Another Kind	Ah Fong, the Chinese Ambassador	27
22	1984	Dance of Tears	(voice)	0
23	1984	The Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	72
24	1984	Night Patrol	Rape Victim	42
25	1984	The Vegas Strip War	Yip Tak	27
26	1985	Amos	Tommy Tanaka	70
27	1986	The Karate Kid Part II	Mr. Miyagi	63
28	1986	Shiatsu with Pat Morita	Self	30
29	1986	Babes in Toyland	The Toymaster	55
30	1987	Captive Hearts	Fukushima	68
31	1988	Big Bird in Japan	Bamboo Princess Story Narrator (voice)	91
32	1989	Collision Course	Investigator Fujitsuka Natsuo	42
33	1989	The Karate Kid Part III	Mr. Miyagi	59
34	1990	Night of 100 Stars III	Self	40
35	1990	Britannica Presents Beauty and the Beast	host	0
36	1990	Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes	Yoodo Toda	58
37	1991	Britannica Presents Tales Around the World: Cinderella	Host	0
38	1991	Strawberry Road	Old man's brother	100
39	1991	Do or Die	Masakana 'Kane' Kaneshiro	46
40	1991	Britannica's Tales Around the World: Hansel and Gretel	Host	0
41	1991	Lena's Holiday	Fred	38
42	1991	Goodbye Paradise	Ben	0
43	1992	Honeymoon in Vegas	Mahi Mahi	57
44	1992	Miracle Beach	Gus	57
45	1992	Auntie Lee's Meat Pies	Chief Koal	48
46	1992	Mastergate	Senator Naito	20
47	1993	Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun	Cap	10
48	1993	American Ninja 5	Master Tetsu	47
49	1994	Even Cowgirls Get the Blues	The Chink	44
50	1994	Greyhounds	Akira Mochizuki	0
51	1994	The Next Karate Kid	Mr. Miyagi	54
52	1995	Timemaster	Isaiah	37
53	1995	The Misery Brothers	Judge	20
54	1995	Hart to Hart: Secrets of the Hart	Ling Goldberg	57
55	1995	Lamb Chop's Special Chanukah	Pat / Super Ninja	0
56	1996	Earth Minus Zero	Dr. Mobius Jefferson	20
57	1996	Bloodsport II	David Leung	53
58	1996	Spy Hard	Brian, Waiter in Restaurant	54
59	1996	Reggie's Prayer	Principal Osaki	37
60	1996	Bloodsport III	David Leung	55
61	1997	Beyond Barbed Wire	Narrator (voice)	0
62	1997	Sports on the Silver Screen	Self (archive footage)	100
63	1997	Captured Alive		30
64	1998	Reflections on Ice: Michelle Kwan Skates to the Music of Disney's 'Mulan'	Emperor / Narrator (voice)	67
65	1998	Mulan	The Emperor (voice)	79
66	1999	Gone to Maui	Mr. Ono	30
67	1999	I'll Remember April	Abe Tanaka	63
68	1999	Visit Fabulous Las Vegas	Self	0
69	1999	King Cobra	Nick Hashimoto	47
70	1999	Inferno	Jubal Early	61
71	2000	Brother	Guy at the Poker Table	71
72	2001	House of Luk	Kwang Luk	0
73	2001	The Boys of Sunset Ridge	Charlie Watanabe	25
74	2001	The Center of the World	Taxi Driver	50
75	2001	Shadow Fury	Dr. Oh	57
76	2002	The Biggest Fan	Richard Limp	66
77	2002	Hammerlock	Un Huong Lo	0
78	2002	The Stoneman	Prof. Stevens	0
79	2003	High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story	Mr. Leo	64
80	2003	Volcano High [MTV's Rapper Dub]	Vice Principal Jang Hak-sa (renamed Ko)	60
81	2004	Elvis Has Left the Building	Man in Turban	52
82	2004	The Last Shot	Self	57
83	2004	Mulan II	The Emperor (voice)	65
84	2005	American Fusion	Lao Dong	55
85	2005	The Way of The Karate Kid	Self / Mr. Miyagi	0
86	2005	Down and Derby	Ono Yakimoto	54
87	2006	Spymate	Kiro	62
88	2006	18 Fingers of Death!	Freeman Lee	31
89	2006	The Number One Girl	Mr. Sakata	24
90	2006	The Karate Dog	Chin Li	48
91	2006	Only The Brave	Seigo Takata	52
92	2009	Royal Kill	Exhibition Manager	31
93	2010	Behind the Scenes with Interviews of Ninja's Creed	Self	20
94	2010	2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift	(archive footage)	64
95	2010	Remove All Obstacles	The Guru	20
96	2011	Act Your Age	Tom	60
97	2013	Mulan: 15th Anniversary - The Voices of Mulan II	Self - Voice of The Emperor	35
98	2013	Blunt Movie	Mr. Miyami	30
99	2014	Rice Girl	Peter Ong	10
100	2015	The Real Miyagi	Self / Mr. Miyagi	65
101	2017	John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs		68
102	2021	More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story	Self / Various (archive footage)	71

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
4	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
5	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Singer	45
6	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	Chris Yamato	71
7	1965	Green Acres	Charlie Lee	73
8	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self	65
9	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Self (uncredited)	65
10	1968	The Outsider		52
11	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Phoebe	71
12	1968	Blondie	Manny	0
13	1969	The Bill Cosby Show	Tree Surgeon	54
14	1969	The Courtship of Eddie's Father	Duke Komosori	60
15	1969	Love, American Style	Bellhop	61
16	1969	Love, American Style	Kam	61
17	1969	Love, American Style	Ah So	61
18	1970	Nanny and the Professor	Jason Wong	60
19	1970	McCloud		71
20	1970	The Odd Couple	Mr. Wing	78
21	1971	Cannon		65
22	1971	Columbo	House Boy	81
23	1972	Sanford and Son	Ah Chew	74
24	1972	The Bob Newhart Show	The Bartender	75
25	1972	MAS*H	Captain Sam Pak	79
26	1972	Kung Fu	Arthur Chen	77
27	1974	Happy Days	Arnold	76
28	1974	Police Woman	Mike Matsuto	63
29	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
30	1975	People's Choice Awards	Self - Presenter	88
31	1975	Welcome Back, Kotter	Taro Takahashi	72
32	1975	Starsky & Hutch	Jewelry Store Owner	73
33	1976	Laverne & Shirley		73
34	1976	The Captain and Tennille	Self	55
35	1976	Mr. T and Tina		43
36	1977	The Kallikaks		50
37	1977	Lou Grant	Ike Tatsumi	73
38	1977	Man from Atlantis	Moby	64
39	1977	The Love Boat	Vincent	63
40	1977	The Love Boat	Mr. Yamashiro	63
41	1977	The Incredible Hulk	Fred	73
42	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Jack Metro	73
43	1981	Aloha Paradise		50
44	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Akira Hitaki	75
45	1985	Alice in Wonderland	Horse	69
46	1987	Ohara	Lt. Ohara	62
47	1987	Married... with Children	Mr. Shimokawa	77
48	1989	Family Matters		68
49	1990	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Mr. Yoshi	79
50	1990	Britannica's Fairy Tales From Around the World	Narrator	0
51	1991	Harry and the Hendersons	Kenji Sawara	57
52	1993	Space Rangers	Nazzer	50
53	1993	Dave's World	Hardware Store Owner	64
54	1993	Boy Meets World	Wise Man	82
55	1993	Diagnosis: Murder	Martin Gaylord	71
56	1994	Burke's Law	Boots McKay	67
57	1994	One West Waikiki		74
58	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	King Makahana (voice)	60
59	1995	The Outer Limits	Michael Chen	77
60	1995	Caroline in the City	Mr. Chu	64
61	1996	The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo	Mike Woo	83
62	1998	Adventures with Kanga Roddy	Uncle Pat	0
63	1998	The Hughleys		68
64	1999	SpongeBob SquarePants	Master Udon	77
65	2000	Son of the Beach		66
66	2018	Cobra Kai	Nariyoshi Miyagi (archive footage)	82