July 24, 2006
RESPECT TO A PIONEER: Mako passes away at 72
One of the trailblazing Asian faces of Hollywood also known as the Godfather of Asian American theatre, Mako Iwamatsu, better known simply as Mako, died last Friday, July 21 in his home in southern California of esophageal cancer.
From appearing in countless numbers of American TV shows and movies all the way back from 1962, founding the Asian American theatre company, East West Players, earning an Oscar nomination for the 1966 film Sand Pebbles, and starring alongside screen legends such as Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet, a voice behind the animated series, Samurai Jack, and facing off against Bruce Lee in the Green Hornet, Mr. Mako blazed a true trail.
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