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Sab Shimono (born July 31, 1943) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows in character roles.
An accomplished stage actor, he has appeared on Broadway and in regional theaters including San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He was cast as Ito opposite Angela Lansbury's Auntie Mame in Jerry Herman's Broadway musical hit Mame in 1966. This was followed by Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970), The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), Ride the Winds (1974), and the role of Manjiro in Stephen Sondheim & Harold Prince's... MORE
Sab Shimono (born July 31, 1943) is an American actor who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows in character roles.
An accomplished stage actor, he has appeared on Broadway and in regional theaters including San Francisco's American Conservatory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He was cast as Ito opposite Angela Lansbury's Auntie Mame in Jerry Herman's Broadway musical hit Mame in 1966. This was followed by Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen (1970), The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), Ride the Winds (1974), and the role of Manjiro in Stephen Sondheim & Harold Prince's Pacific Overtures (1976). In 2010 he appeared in the world premiere of No-No Boy by Ken Narasaki based on the novel by John Okada.
His more memorable film roles include Hiroshi Kawamura in the 1990 drama Come See The Paradise, the coroner "Painless" Kumagai in 1990's Presumed Innocent, an uncredited appearance as the voice of Harold who advertises the doomsday in Flushed Away and in Old Dogs, alongside John Travolta and Robin Williams, as Japanese billionaire Yoshiro Nishamura. He can also be seen in Asian American independent films, The Sensei (2008), Americanese (2009) and Life Tastes Good (1999).
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