George Takei in other acting roles. The Star Trek actor played Hikaru Sulu in the original series TV shows and some of the movies.

Star Trek Actors Other Roles in Movies and TV Shows

Star Trek: TOS - George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu)
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Grosse Pointe (2000) (TV)
- Starring as Japanese Ad Executive in "Star Wars"
- This is a show-within-a-show, and is a comedy that takes a look at the action behind the scenes of a teen prime-time soap. It centers on the on and off-camera antics of five actors who star in a fictional high school drama called Grosse Pointe .


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Early Edition (1998) (TV)
- Starring as Mr. Lee in "Blackout"
- Gary Hobson was a Chicago stockbroker until a mysterious yellow cat showed up at his front door with tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. From that day on Gary started trying to save people's lives and stop disasters from happening by using this fortune telling device.

 


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Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996)
- Starring as Doc Valentine
- In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney (Maxwell Caulfield) arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash (Musetta Vander) on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley (Jeff Weston) in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar (Andrew Divoff), who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion (Richard Joseph Paul), Jaggar, and Sweeney.


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Space Cases (1996) (TV)
- Starring as Shank in "Spung at Heart" and "On the Road to Find Out"
- This show is about five space cadets, their two teachers and a malfunctioning android, Thelma. After the children see an alien spaceship, the Christa, outside their Space Academy and board it they become lost in space, with their assistant principal and teacher.

 


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Oblivion (1994)
- Starring as Doc Valentine
- This is a campy, fun loving Sci-Fi Western movie set in the year 303. A reptilian villian known as Redeye has taken over the town of Oblivion. The sheriff's dead, the android deputy's unplugged and the townsfolk are too yellow to stand up to the sharp-shooting lizard. Only Zack Stone (Mike Genovese), son of the late sheriff, has the skills to defeat the deadly creature.
- Doc Valentine is a drunk doctor who says many of the signature "Star Trek" lines.


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Return from the River Kwai (1989)
- Starring as Lieutenant Tanaka
- This sequel to the classic 1957 movie "The Bridge On The River Kwai" is also based on atrue story of British and Australian POW's held by the Japanese in Thailand. Near the end of the war the fittest of the POW's were moved by rail and ship to Japan, and during the sea journey the convoy comes under attack from an American submarine at the same time as the Allied POW's were making a daring attempt to take over the ship.
- Lieutenant Tanaka is the camp commander, and wants to set an example, so he orders that some of the prisoners are to be executed. His plan is to ship the PoWs to various Japanese car factories


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Miami Vice (1987) (TV)
- Starring as Kenneth Togaru in "By Hooker by Crook"
- Miami Vice is about Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson), an undercover detective in the Miami Police Department and his partner Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) as they infiltrate Miami's crime syndicates. Its all money, glitz, glamour and uses 80's rock and pop for the soundtracks.
- In this episode Crockett and Tubbs try to find a murder witness, not knowing that she works for heidi fliess type madame Christine Von Marburg (Melanie Griffith), who is also Sonny's lover.
- Kenneth Togaru is the ruthless businessman who planned both the murder and the set up with Ali (Vanity) and had the money launderer killed for skimming from him. Togaru orders his hitmen to track Ali down and kill her before she can reveal what she knows.


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Murder, She Wrote (1987) (TV)
- Starring as Bert Tanaka in "The Bottom Line Is Murder"
- The TV show ran from 1984 to 1996, starring Angela Lansbury as former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. She has a gift for solving mysteries which seemed to follow her around.
- In this episode, a lying TV Consumer advocate is killed and suspicion lands on one of the clients whose products he maligned.


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These roles do not include voice only, and only well known movies or TV shows are listed here. Our research was eased using The Internet Movie Database.