Mako
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Japanese-American actor (1933-2006)
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Mako (1933–2006) was a Japanese actor whose professional career spanned from 1959 to 2006. He had two children. In the music industry, an artist named Mako is identified as a United States-based group. This musical act is associated with electronic, electropop, eurobeat, and house genres. The group has received recognition within the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.
Separately, an author named Suzy Mako has published 49 works. Titles include *Meine Großartige Mutti - Die Schönsten Märchen*, *Justin Bieber - Coloring Pictures*, and *35 Nails Tricks - Health, Strong and Long Nails*. Additionally, the name Mako appears in a Last.fm profile with 410,115 listeners and 4,598,926 plays, tagged with j-pop, japanese, eurobeat, electronic, and anime. Crossref lists five works under this name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- Makoto Iwamatsu , ( 1933-12-10 ) December 10, 1933, Mikage , Kobe , Hyōgo , Japan
- Died
- July 21, 2006 (2006-07-21) (aged 72), Somis, California , U.S.
- Other name
- Mako Iwamatsu
- Citizenship
- Japan United States (after 1956)
- Alma mater
- Pratt Institute School of Architecture , Pasadena Playhouse
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1959–2006
- Spouse
- Shizuko Hoshi
- Parent s
- Taro Yashima (father), Mitsu Yashima (mother)
- Kanji
- 岩松 信
- Hiragana
- いわまつ まこと
- Katakana
- イワマツ マコト
- Romanization
- Iwamatsu Makoto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Makoto
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kobe
- Place of death
- Somis
- Spouse
- Shizuko Hoshi
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- TMNT
- Military branch
- United States Army
- Image
- Mako, 1986.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- name in native language
- 岩松 信
- date of birth
- 1933-12-10
- date of death
- 2006-07-21
- cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in kana
- まこ いわまつ
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- end of work period
- 2006-00-00
- ethnic group
- Japanese Americans
- birth name
- Makoto Iwamatsu
- Commons category
- Mako (actor)
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Encyclopedic overview
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Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松 信, Iwamatsu Makoto; December 10, 1933 – July 21, 2006) was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ; /ˈmɑːkoʊ/ MAH-koh). His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned five decades and 165 productions. He was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mako” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.