RIP: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

[Techwright]

Very surprised to read this.  I was thinking about him this weekend.  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa passed away Friday, Dec. 5 of complications from a stroke.  He was 75.

 

Best known for his villainous role in the Mortal Combat movie and related productions,  Tagawa was actually in several other productions that had comic culture ties.  These include additional villains in the live-action The Phantom of the 1990s, and the animated Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu.  He voiced the heroic father character of Mandalorian Sabine Wren in Star Wars: Rebels and another animated villain in Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo.  

 

Back on the live action and heroic side, I enjoyed his performances as a detective in the mid-1990s series Nash Bridges, and as one of the colonists struggling to survive in the Netflix version of Lost In Space.  

 

His list of guest roles is quite long, so there's bound to be something people like that I failed to report. 

 

EDIT:  Oh, yes!  He was one of the gorillas in the 2001 version of Planet of the Apes.  Say what you will of that movie, but the training the actors went through to deliver a credible simian performance was remarkable.

 

 

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