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- [Mr. Nakamura] graduated from Farrington High School and the University of Hawaii. A Korean War veteran, he served with a military intelligence unit. He worked in Hollywood during the 1950s in a career that spanned nearly ten years. He appeared in "Go For Broke", Westward, the Women", Blood Alley", "Unchained Melody", "Athena" and "Lafayette Escadrille". In 1961 he entered Federal Service and worked in Okinawa for over 32 years, retiring in 1993. [Upon his death at age 87, he was] survived by wife Koto, son Derek (Joyce), brothers Wilfred & George and sisters Mary Murakami (Charles) and Mabel Nakamura and several nieces and nephews. Private services were held in Okinawa.
- IMDb mini biography by: The Nakamura family, taken from a Honolulu Star Advertiser obituary
- SpouseKoto (1 child)
- Originally put in an internment camp following Pearl Harbor, but he left and joined the Navy and became a Japanese interpreter for the American Navy; in Blood Alley (1955), he wears a U.S.N. insignia on the back of his jacket, which might just have been his own.
- Three of his seven films as actor were directed by William A. Wellman.
- Information regarding a notable ceramics scientist from Illinois with the name Henry Nakamura is often confused with that of the actor Henry Hiroshi Nakamura.
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