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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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965) (TV)
- Starring as Major Li Cheng in "The Silent Saboteurs"
- The Tv show was about the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine, the SSRN Seaview. It was a tool of oceanographic research for the Nelson Institute of Marine Research. The show featured a few monsters but most of the episodes were about nuclear doomsday, pollution of natural resources, foreign threat, theft of American technology, etc.


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The Twilight Zone (1964) (TV)
- Starring as Taro in "The Encounter"
- The TV Series originally ran from 1959 to 1964. Rod Serling hosted a bizarre and always twisted half hour story about anything you could possibly imagine.
- WWII veteran Fenton is a racial bigot who reluctantly hires Nisei youth Taro as a handyman. In the course of an extremely eventful day, both men are strangely affected by the Japanese samurai sword which Fenton keeps stored in his attic.
- Apparently, this episode upset several Japanese-American organizations, who didn't like parts of George Takei's character.


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Never So Few (1959)
- Starring as Soldier in hospital
- Captain Tom Reynolds (Frank Sinatra) and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in modern warfare. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is more grueling than Reynolds had reckoned. Some respite is found in the arms of beautiful Carla (Gina Lollobrigida), but after Chinese rebels cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, Reynolds abandons all notions of "military protocol" and seeks requital. Also starring Peter Lawford and Steve McQueen.


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Perry Mason (1959) (TV)
- Starring as Toma Sakai in "The Case of the Blushing Pearls"
- The show was about defense lawyer Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and his staff, who solved crimes with surprise witnesses and brilliant cross-examinations. It was the first series to show chalk outlines where bodies were found.
- In this episode, Hudson Nichols frames Mitsou Kamuri for stealing his wife Thelma's string of expensive blush pearls. Mitsou consults Perry Mason, who tries to intervene. Ito Kamuri, Mitsou's uncle, has made two sets of false pearls and is found dead, having apparently committed hara kiri. Mitsou is charged with the crime, and Perry must find out who has the real pearls.
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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.