Star Trek passings

[Frostscape One]

He had quite a variety of shows and movies in his career. Including Shang Tsung in MORTAL KOMBAT. (And voiced him in later games.)

Memorable, sinister voice when he played a villain.

R.I.P., sir.

 

[Nude Colonel Stuart]

Tagawa always had such presence. He had ''It'' as much as Clara Bow, in a much different way. His biggest film role may be RISING SUN, with a character so resilient he essentially died twice. He was also quite cool in the short-lived SPACE RANGERS television show.

When his character died in Tim Burton's PLANET OF THE APES, I was absolutely furious. Granted, he was buried so deeply in extra makeup that he may have been less recognized for that film.

 

[137th Gebirg]

He also did a short single-episode stint on Babylon Five as one of Garibaldi's senior security personnel (Morishi). Always wanted to see him in more of that, and it seemed like he might have been poised to play a recurring character, but he disappeared just as quickly as he appeared, never to be seen again without explanation. Julia Nickson (as Captain Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's fiancé) suffered a similar appear-disappear fate from that show (3 episodes), with zero resolution of her character's mysterious disappearance.