Brian Tochi

Brian Tochi or Brian Keith Tochi (born Brian Keith Tochihara, born May 2, 1963) is an American actor. During the late 1960s through much of the 1970s, he was one of the most widely seen East Asian child actors working in U.S. television, appearing in various TV series and nearly a hundred advertisements. He is best known for his characters Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds film franchise, Cadet (later Lieutenant) Tomoko Nogata from the third and fourth films in the Police Academy film series, and as the voice of Leonardo in the first three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.
==Career==
===As a child actor===
A beginning role for Tochi was a guest-starring appearance in the short-lived television series He & She (1967–68, with Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss) as their newly adopted son. Produced by Leonard Stern and cowritten by Chris Hayward and Allan Burns, it also starred Jack Cassidy as an egomaniacal actor, Kenneth Mars, and Hamilton Camp. That same year saw Tochi appearing in "And the Children Shall Lead", a third-season episode of Star Trek. Other roles followed, including guest appearances on such popular shows as The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family and Adam-12.
Tochi's debut as a series regular was as Yul Brynner's oldest son and heir Crown Prince Chulalongkorn in Anna and the King on CBS. It was based on the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I and also starred Samantha Eggar and Keye Luke. Although the series was short-lived, Tochi and Brynner remained friends until Brynner's death in 1985. Concurrent with the series, Tochi was cast with fellow actor Luke in his first animated television series The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan; also in the series was a young Jodie Foster, who voiced one of the Chan sisters.
After both series ended, guest-starring roles followed, including The Streets of San Francisco with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas; and Kung Fu, with David Carradine, who made his directing debut on the episode, "The Demon God" (which was Tochi's largest guest role of three Kung Fu episodes he appeared in). Tochi also played an undercover informant who was beaten and killed in a gritty two-part episode of Police Story on NBC. He played another character that nearly died on the Robert Young medical drama Marcus Welby, M.D..
===Young adulthood in theater===
During the mid-1970s, Tochi spent time in the theatre, this time reprising his role as Crown Prince Chulalongkorn in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera's revival of the musical The King and I at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. There he co-starred with actor Ricardo Montalbán, as the King of Siam, to which they would later accompany the show as it went on tour.
===Return to television===
Tochi returned to star in another TV series Space Academy (1977–1979) with veteran actor Jonathan Harris (best remembered as Dr. Smith from Lost in Space). His character, Tee Gar Soom, had super-strength and continued the martial arts traditions of his Asian ancestors. During hiatus of the show, Tochi was asked to shoot a 20-minute promotional "behind-the-scenes" visit to the Space Academy for a popular daytime series, Razzmatazz, on CBS. Razzmatazz was a highly regarded news magazine show created by 60 Minutes wizard Don Hewitt and produced by Joel Heller with the same production team as CBS's "In The News" the long-running Saturday morning news programs for children. Razzmatazz originally starred Barry Bostwick, who opted to leave the show for a career in features, to capitalize on his recently released cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Searching for a new host, the television network persuaded Tochi to accept their offer of his own daytime show, which aired on the network for 4 more years into the early 1980s.
Other appearances include a guest stint on Wonder Woman, a recurring character in the tropically set Hawaii Five-O, starring actor Jack Lord, a two-hour TV movie We're Fighting Back (with Ellen Barkin and Stephen Lang), and regular television roles in the TV dramas St. Elsewhere and Santa Barbara. He later played featured characters in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (making him one of only a handful of living actors to ever have appeared on the original Star Trek series and a subsequent spin-off), and "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", the ninth episode from the first season of the television series The Twilight Zone. The episode is based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" with Tochi playing the title character, by William F. Wu, first published in Amazing Stories. This episode was stretched into a half-hour run time for syndication, as recently shown on the Chiller TV network.
In the short lived ABC TV series The Renegades, he starred with his friend, Patrick Swayze, as the martial arts expert and former gang leader known as Dragon. Then, exercising his journalistic prowess, Tochi later became part of the core team that created and developed the cutting edge educational news program Channel One News. During his two-and-a-half-year association, his responsibilities grew to include Hosting and Narrating duties, utilizing his talents as a writer, producer and segment director. He was later named Chief Foreign correspondent for the show.
===Other work===
In 2004, Tochi co-wrote, produced and directed Tales of a Fly on the Wall, a scripted, live-action comedy, casting several of his friends in lead roles; it included fellow actors Roscoe Lee Browne, his Revenge of the Nerds co-star Curtis Armstrong and his Police Academy 3: Back in Training co-star Leslie Easterbrook. In 2005, he was one of the winners of the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Screenplay Awards, taking home top honors for co-writing the screenplay "In the Heat of the Light". He continues with his directing, producing, and screenwriting careers.
Tochi has also provided voices for numerous animated films, computer games and animated cartoon series, including the Bionic Six (all 65 episodes), Challenge of the GoBots, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, What's New, Scooby-Doo?, The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, and Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm (as its main star Liu Kang). He performed the voice of Leonardo in the first three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films in the early 1990s. He also is the voice of the Chinese soldier who runs the Great Wall in Disney's Mulan, and more recently had recurring roles in Batman Beyond, As Told by Ginger, Kim Possible, Johnny Bravo, Static Shock, Family Guy and Avatar: The Last Airbender on Nickelodeon.
==Filmography==
Film	Film 	Film 	Film
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1971	The Omega Man 	Tommy 	
1980	The Octagon 	Seikura at Eighteen 	
1984	Revenge of the Nerds 	Takashi 	
1985	Stitches 	Sam Boon Tong 	
1986	Police Academy 3: Back in Training 	Cadet Tomoko Nogata 	
1987	Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol 	Officer Tomoko Nogata 	
1989	One Man Force 	Stockbroker 	
1990	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Leonardo (voice) 	
1991	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze	Leonardo (voice) 	
1992	The Player 	Himself 	
1993	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III 	Leonardo (voice) 	
1997	Critics and Other Freaks 	Asian Boy 	
1999	The King and I 	Soldier (voice) 	
1999	The Iron Giant 	Bob the Soldier, Additional voice	
2001	The Boys of Sunset Ridge 	Charlie Watanabe at 33 	
2001	The Silent Force 	Kim Pao 	
2001	Shaolin Soccer 	Mighty Steel Leg Sing (voice) 	English version
2004	Mulan II 	The Palace Advisor (voice) 	
2009	I Do 	Peacher 	
==Television==
Television	Television 	Television 	Television 	
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes 	
1968 	He & She 	Kim 	Episode: "Along Came Kim" 	
1968 	Star Trek: The Original Series 	Ray 	Episode: "And the Children Shall Lead" 	
1970 	The Brady Bunch 	Tommy 	Episode: "What Goes Up..." 	
1971 	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors 	Chin Johnson 	Episode: "One Lonely Step" 	
1971 	The Partridge Family 	Young Boy 	Episode: "A Tale of Two Hamsters" 	
1971 	Nanny and the Professor 	Jimmy Okura 	Episode: "One for the Road" 	
1971 	Adam-12 	Flower Boy 	Episode: "Assassination" 	
1971, 1976	Marcus Welby, M.D. 	Larry, Max Redding 	Episodes: "This Is Mac", "Strike Two!" 	
1972 	The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan 	Alan Chan (voice) 	14 episodes 	
1972 	Anna and the King 	Prince Chulalongkorn 	13 episodes 	
1973 	'The Streets of San Francisco 	Davey 	Episode: "Trail of the Serpent" 	
1973–1974 	Kung Fu 	Ho Fong, Shen Ung 	3 episodes 	
1975 	Police Story 	Louis Han 	2 episodes 	
1977 	Space Academy 	Tee Gar 	15 episodes 	
1978 	Project U.F.O. 	Student 	Episode: "Sighting 4006: The Nevada Desert Incident" 	
1978 	Wonder Woman 	Darrell 	Episode: "The Deadly Dolphin" 	
1978–1979 	Hawaii Fave-O 	Joey Lee 	3 episodes 	
1979 	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo 	Additional voices 	1 episode 	
1981 	We're Fighting Back 	Ling 	Television film 	
1982 	The Renegades 	Dragon 	Television film 	
1983 	The Renegades 	Dragon 	6 episodes 	
1984 	The Master 	Jonathan Chan 	Episode: "Out-if-Time-Step" 	
1984 	Challenge of the GoBots 	Additional voices 	1 episode 	
1984 	St. Elsewhere 	Dr. Alan Poe 	Episode: "Playing God: Part 1" 	
1985 	CBS Storybreak 	Unknown role (voice) 	Episode "Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China" 	
1985 	The Twilight Zone 	David Wong 	Episode: "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" 	
1987 	Bionic Six 	Karate-1, Bunjiro 'Bunji' Bennett / Rivet Rick (voices)	65 episodes 	
1988 	Santa Barbra 	Kai 	26 episodes 	
1989 	The Karate Kid 	Additional voices 	Episode: "My Brother's Keeper" 	
1991 	Star Trek: The Next Generation 	Ensign Kenny Lin 	Episode: "Night Terrors" 	
1992 	Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation 	Takashi 	Television film 	
1993 	Bonkers 	Unknown role (voice) 	Episode: "Tokyo Bonkers" 	
1993 	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Yoku (voice) 	Episode: "White Belt, Black Heart" 	
1994 	Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love 	Takashi 	Television film 	
1994 	Aladdin 	Zhin Lao, Zhang Lao 	Episode: "Opposites Detract" 	
1995 	Captain Planet and the Planeteers 	Li (voice) 	Episode: "In Zarm's Way" 	
1995 	Vanishing Son 	Ricky 	Episode: "Lock and Load, Babe" 	
1995 	The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries 	Sushi Master (voice) 	Episode: "Something Fishy Around Here" 	
1995 	Diagnosis Murder 	Eddie Lok 	Episode: "Murder in the Courthouse" 	
1995–1997 	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Turtle Photographer, Tsui, Prince, The Tailer (voices) 	3 episodes 	
1996 	Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm 	Liu Kang (voice) 	13 episodes 	
1996–1997 	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest 	Professor Ken Otsuki, Techi #1, Terrorist Pilo (voices)	Episodes: "Nemesis", "Other Space" 	
1997 	Bruno the Kid 	Unknown role (voice) 	Episode: "Book'em Bruno, Murder One" 	
1998 	Dexter's Laboratory 	Toshi, Japanese Dad, Japanese Boy #1 (voices) 	Episode: "Last But Not Least" 	
1999 	Batman Beyond 	Albino (voice) 	Episode: "Mind Games" 	
2000 	The Weekenders 	Hiro (voice) 	Episode: "Sense and Sensitivity" 	
2000–2001 	Johnny Bravo 	Master Hama, Karate Girl (voices) 	4 episodes 	
2000–2004 	Static Shock 	Shiv (voice) 	7 episodes 	
2002 	Samurai Jack 	Kid B, Boy (voices) 	Episode: "XXVI" 	
2002 	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy 	Chief, Chef, Announcer (voices) 	2 episodes 	
2002–2003 	What's New Scooby-Doo 	J.J Hakimoto (voice) 	Episodes: "3-D Struction", The Vampire Strikes Back" 	
2003 	Kim Possible 	Additional voices 	Episode: "Exchange" 	
2003 	Codename: Kids Next Door 	Cheese Ninj, Leader 	Episode: "Operation: T.H.E.-S.H.O.G.U.N./Operation: C.O.L.L.E.G.E."	
2005 	Family Guy 	Asian Police Pilot (voice) 	Episode: "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" 	
2005 	All Grown Up! 	The Tourist Kid #2 (voice) 	Episode: "R.V. Having Fun Yet" 	
2006 	Duck Dodgers 	The Whoosh (voice) 	Episode: "Master & Disaster/All in the Crime Family" 	
2006 	As Told By Ginger 	Mr. Briggs, Shop Keeper (voices) 	Episode: "Stuff'll Kill Ya" 	
2006–2008 	Avatar: The Last Airbender 	Ham Ghao, Than (voices) 	3 episodes 	
2014 	Under the Table 	Himself 	2 episodes 	
2014 	The Bay 	Dr. Kim 	Episode: "1.15" 	
Video games	Video games 	Video games 	Video games
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1998 	Xenogears 	Fei Fong Wong 	
2002 	EOE: Eve of Extinction 	Venom, Raven 	English dub
2002 	Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon 	Additional voices 	
2003 	Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven 	Additional voices 	
2003 	True Crime: Streets of LA 	Kang Brother, Additional voices 	
2004 	Tenchu: Return from Darkness 	Additional voices 	
2004 	World of Warcraft 	Additional voices 	
2005 	Area 51 	Additional voices 	
2008 	Jumper: Griffin's Story 	Paladin, Guard #1, Soldier #1 	
2008 	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 	Imperial Ore Collector, Imperial Nanocore	
2008 	Saints Row 2 	Unknown role 	
2012 	The Darkness II 	Inugami, Additional voices 	
2012 	World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria	Unknown role 	
Category:1959 births
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Category:Film producers from California
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American male television actors
Category:American television journalists
Category:American male voice actors
Category:Male actors from Los Angeles
Category:American people of Japanese descent
Category:American male actors of Japanese descent
Category:American male journalists
Category:American journalists of Japanese descent
Category:American film directors of Japanese descent
Category:Film directors from California
Category:Screenwriters from California