He played Captain Nim, an ARVN LLDB (Luc Luong Dac Biet- Special Forces) officer alongside John Wayne's character in the 1968 Vietnam War era film, The Green Berets. Takei subsequently appeared alongside such actors as Richard Burton in Ice Palace, Jeffrey Hunter in Hell to Eternity, Alec Guinness in A Majority of One, James Caan in Red Line 7000 and Cary Grant in Walk Don't Run. His first role was providing voiceover for several characters in the English dub of Japanese monster films such as Godzilla Raids Again and Rodan, followed by an appearance in the Emmy award winning television series Playhouse 90 and Perry Mason The Case of the Blushing Pearls. Takei began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s, at a time when Asian faces were rarely seen on television and movie screens. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop. He attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. Later he attended the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received a bachelor of arts in theater in 1960 and a master of arts in theater in 1964. Upon graduation from high school Takei then enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley where he studied architecture. He attended Mount Vernon Junior High School, where he served as student body president, and Los Angeles High School. He and his family returned to Los Angeles at the end of World War II. Despite this experience, the family developed a renewed dedication and remained involved in the American democratic process. The family was later transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. In 1942, the Takei family was originally housed in the horse stables of Santa Anita Park before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment in Arkansas. His father was an Anglophile, and named him George after George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place in 1937. Takei was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Fumiko Emily ( née Nakamura) and Takekuma Norman Takei, who worked in real estate. 2.4 I'm a Celebrity.Get Me Out of Here!.
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