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Gedde Watanabe (born June 26, 1955) is an American theatre, film and television actor. Image File history File links Sixteencandles. ...
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Watanabe, was born Gary Watanabe in Ogden, Utah. He was in several dramatic productions in high school, both acting and singing. After graduating from high school, he left Ogden for San Francisco, where he hoped to make his living as a street musician while honing his acting skills. Ogden sign over Washington Boulevard at the Ogden River; toward downtown Ogden is the county seat of Weber County,GR6 Utah, United States. ...
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He appeared on Broadway in 1976 in Pacific Overtures and has appeared in a number of films and television shows. He appeared on Sesame Street for some years and had a recurring role on ER from 1998 to 2002. In 1998 he was the voice for Ling in the Disney film Mulan and reprised the role for the 2004 straight-to-video sequel, Mulan II. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ...
Pacific Overtures was an ambitious 1976 musical by Stephen Sondheim, with a libretto by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, set in 1853 Japan. ...
Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ...
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Mulan II DVD Cover Mulan II is a Disney direct-to-video animated feature released in 2004 and a sequel to the 1998 animated film Mulan. ...
His acting parts have been mostly caricatured Asians with heavy accents (although he does not actually speak Japanese).[1] Jason Buchanan wrote for All Movie Guide, "The character that Gedde Watanabe is most remembered for is no doubt Long Duc Dong, the spastic foreign exchange student in Sixteen Candles whose drunken fall from a tree and laughable bastardization of the English language had ninth graders of the day rolling in theater aisles."[2] Although the showing of Sixteen Candles in a San Francisco park in 2007 generated considerable objections in the Asian American press,[citation needed] the stereotypical part is far better remembered than that of the protagonist played by Molly Ringwald, and marked one of the more successful careers of an Asian American actor. Cover of Asian Week AsianWeek is an English-language covering the Asian American community, published in San Francisco. ...
Watanabe had a starring role in both the film and ABC-TV versions of Gung Ho. The television series was scheduled against the hit show Dallas, and was quickly cancelled. He has also provided the voice for various Japanese characters on TV's The Simpsons. From 1996 to 2003 he made occasional appearances as a gay nurse, Yosh, on the popular television drama ER. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...
Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. ...
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Watanabe co-starred as Kuni in the 1989 movie UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic. Perhaps the character's most memorable moment in the film is when he and a group of his martial artist friends jump out of a supply closet to attack a group of thugs. The closet is labeled "Supplies," and as Kuni and his cohorts emerge from the closet they yell "Supplies!" in an Engrish mispronunciation of "Surprise!" He reprised this role on the Weird Al Show. UHF (also known as The Vidiot from UHF in Australia and parts of Europe, and Los Telelocos in Mexico) is a comedy film made in 1989. ...
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The Weird Al Show was a short-lived television show starring Weird Al Yankovic. ...
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Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. ...
The Volunteers is a 1985 comedy directed by Nicholas Meyer. ...
Vamp is a 1986 vampire film starring Grace Jones. ...
UHF (also known as The Vidiot from UHF in Australia and parts of Europe, and Los Telelocos in Mexico) is a comedy film made in 1989. ...
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Booty Call is a 1997 comedy film, written by Takashi Bufford and J. Stanford Parker, and directed by Jeff Pollack. ...
This article is about the film Mulan. For the legendary person, see Hua Mulan. ...
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Slackers is a 2002 movie starring Devon Sawa, Jaime King, and Jason Schwartzman. ...
Alfie is a 2004 American-British comedy romance film starring Jude Law as the title character. ...
Mulan II DVD Cover Mulan II is a Disney direct-to-video animated feature released in 2004 and a sequel to the 1998 animated film Mulan. ...
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