Sacanime Summer 2021 Souvenir Book

GUESTS!
KEONE YOUNG
Keone Young is legendary for many of his voice over credits
which include Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long,
Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Mr. Sanban in Codename:
Kids Next Door, the Firebending master Jeong Jeong in the
Asian-influenced Avatar: The Last Airbender, Storm Shadow
in the Sunbow G.I. Joe animated series, the Hard Master
in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Mr. Wu on Nickelodeon’s show The
Mighty B!, Babaram on Surf Ninjas Marshall Kai Ti Chang
in Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb, Silver Samurai in
X-Men: The Official Game and Wolverine and the X-Men,
Sensei in Young Justice, Chen Stormstout in the World of
Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion and Heroes of the
Storm by Blizzard Entertainment, and Commander Sato in
Star Wars Rebels. Recently, he appeared as Kojiro Sasaki
in Record of Ragnarok, Tsunetomo Yamamoto in Godzilla:
Singular Point, and will be appearing in the new Anime Star
Wars: Visions project playing the role of Kamahachi.
He has been prolific in his character work and has made
numerous guest appearances on such varied television
series as Head of the Class, Diff’rent Strokes, The Golden
Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters,
Futurama, The Simpsons, Alias, JAG, The Steve Harvey
Show, Zeke and Luther, Shake It Up: Made In Japan and
on the daytime soaps The Young and the Restless and
Generations. He also portrayed the bodyguard of the
Ancient One (Keye Luke) during the Asian Quarter
storyline on General Hospital.
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Young played Dr. Michael Kwan on the short-lived multiethnic
medical drama Kay O’Brien, which aired in the fall
of 1986 on CBS. Despite the fact that the network had
high hopes for the series, just 9 of 13 episodes were aired.
He was also a semi-regular on the HBO series Deadwood
as Mr. Wu and played Henry Lin’s Uncle on the FX series
Sons of Anarchy. He also played Mr. Wu, unrelated to the
Deadwood character, in the movie Men in Black 3, played
the role of Ellison Onizuka In the TV film Challenger,
and HBO’s True Blood as Dr. Hido Takahashi, the man
responsible for inventing the titular blood substitute.
Young also has several Star Trek links: he played Buck
Bokai, a famous baseball player in the 24th century in
the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “If Wishes Were
Horses”. He also played Hoshi Sato’s father in the Star
Trek: Enterprise episode “Vanishing Point”. Young appeared
as Governor Ho in the movie North starring Elijah Wood.
SACANIME SUMMER 2021 SEPTEMBER 3RD - 5TH, 2021