Steve Akahoshi
To be a "series regular" on a primetime network television show is a plateau of success to which many actors aspire. For Steven, who starred as "Doc" Randy Matsuda on the critically acclaimed Emmy Award winning CBS Vietnam drama series Tour of Duty (1987) (1987-88; and currently in syndication on TNT), that success came early in his career. That followed five days after his first break in show business: a co-starring role as Detective Shigeta in the Whoopi Goldberg/Sam Elliott feature film Fatal Beauty (1987) for MGM/UA in which he earned his Screen Actors Guild card. An impressive body of work in over 100 feature films, television, theater and commercial productions ensued including such fare as the successful Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III for New Line Cinema; the family drama A Year in the Life (opposite Richard Kiley and Sarah Jessica Parker) for NBC; The O.J. Simpson Story (1995) bio-pic for Fox TV; and the actioner Back to Back (1996) for HBO.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
as Honor Guard #2The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient...
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Fatal Beauty
as ShigetaDetective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks....
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Back to Back
as Officer YamaokaAn ex-cop finds himself caught up in a battle between Japanese mobsters and local gangland thugs...
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The O.J. Simpson Story
as TV Detective No. 2Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife,...
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Tour of Duty
as SP4 Randy 'Doc' MatsudaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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Tour of Duty
as Pvt. Randy 'Doc' MatsudaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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Tour of Duty
as Randy 'Doc' MatsudaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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