Isao Sato (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese actor
Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1949
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Date of Death: 09-Mar-1990
Profession: stage actor, television actor
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Isao Sato (actor)
- Isao Sato (?? ??, Sato Isao) was a Japanese born theater actor.
- He was born in Tokyo on June 27, 1949 and attended the Keio University, where he studied law.
- While in Japan, he was a member of the Shiki Theatre Company.
- His broadway debut was in the original all Asian cast of Pacific Overtures in 1976 where he played Kayama.
- He was the only non-American member of the cast.
- In fact, he came to America specifically to audition for this role, after having missed the Tokyo auditions for the musical.
- Once he was cast, he emigrated to America.
- Reviews for the show were mixed, but Sato received praise for his performance.
- He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1976, but lost to Sammy Williams of A Chorus Line.
- His voice can be heard on the cast recording of Pacific Overtures.
- In 1979, he played several roles in the play Fanshen about the Chinese revolution at the ACT Theatre in Seattle.
- He later played Wenqing in Peking Man, a play by Cao Yu at the Horace Mann Theater in New York City in 1980.
- At the Perry Street Theater in New York City, he acted in Dick Brukenfeld's historical drama "Extenuating Circumstances", wherein an American man is accused of killing a young Chinese girl in Canton, China in 1821.Later in his career, he appeared on television in the show Spenser: For Hire on the episode "My Brother's Keeper", where he was reunited with his Pacific Overtures castmate Mako Iwamatsu.
- In 1987, he played the scientist in Penn & Teller's TV movie "Invisible Thread".While touring the West coast with Pacific Overtures, he met his wife Janice Kanemitsu, who was a dancer on the tour.
- They were married on October 17, 1976 and divorced in 1979.Sato pursued a second career as a flight instructor and was an instructor at Crest One Flight Academy in Florida.
- He died in a plane crash in Miramar, Florida on March 9, 1990.
- The Cessna he was in was flown by his student and collided with a banner plane.
- He was 40 years old.
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