Biography

Jim Ishida was born on July 29, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Back to the Future Part II (1989), Predator 2 (1990) and Armageddon (1998). He is married to Margaret.

Ishida's mother, Sue, who passed away on August 25, 2010 was a schoolteacher and administrator for many years in the Lodi, California Unified School District, where she was also Director of Instructional Materials.

Presently lives with wife Margaret, and family in California.

He and his family were once detainees at a Japanese internment camp for little over a year during World War II in Rohwer, Arkansas and were released shortly after the war ended in 1945.