Gedde Watanabe

Age: 54
Height: 5' 7"

Birth Place: Ogden, Utah, USA
Born: Jun. 26th, 1955

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Gedde Watanabe's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Gung Ho	Kaz Kazuhiro

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Begin his show business career as a street singer.
His mother was interned by the United States during World War II.
Grew up in San Francisco's Chinatown.
In his audition for the film _Sixteen Candles (1984)_ (qv), he went through the entire process pretending he did not speak any English, imitating a Korean friend. After he was finished, he eloquently thanked the casting director in perfect English. He was soon cast.
Studied at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California, USA.
For _Mulan (1998)_ (qv), he had another person do his singing voice because his own voice was too good.
In his role in the original cast of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Pacific Overtures," he performed the song "Someone in a Tree." Watanabe is arguably best known as the character "Long Duk Dong" from _Sixteen Candles (1984)_ (qv), in which he famously leaped out of a tree and onto Michael Schoeffling's character Jake.

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