Miyoshi Umeki
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Birth Name: 梅木 美代志
Born: 8 May 1929 Died: 28 August 2007
Country of origin: Japan
Height: 5' 1"
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Japanese and Nipo-American Actors in Hollywood
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Published 9 years, 1 month ago
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Published 10 years, 12 months ago
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7 votes
Directed by John Sturges
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Published 12 years, 8 months ago
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梅木 美代志, Umeki Miyoshi, or ミヨシ・ウメキ Miyoshi Umeki.
Naturalized American Academy Award-winning actress and standards singer. She was best known for her roles as Katsumi, the wife of Joe Kelly (Red Buttons), in the 1957 film Sayonara, as Mei Li in the 1958 Broadway musical and 1961 film Flower Drum Song, and as Mrs. Livingston, the housekeeper of Bill Bixby's and Brandon Cruz's characters, in the TV series The Courtship of Eddie's Father. She was a shin Issei or post-1945 immigrant from Japan. She was a Tony Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and was the first and only Asian woman to win an Academy Aw
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1. The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Rating: | 2578 Watched |
2. Sayonara (1957)
Rating: | 66 Watched |
5. A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
Rating: | 4 Watched |
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1. Mister Ed (1961)
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2. The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)
Rating: | 64 Watched |
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