Rollin Moriyama

Japanese actor

Rollin Moriyama
Rollin Moriyama in Perry Mason 1959
Born	Ryoichi Moriyama October 11, 1907 Fukushima, Japan
Died	December 25, 1992 Santa Clara, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Shigeyo Ito (m. 1934)

Ryoichi "Rollin" Moriyama (sometimes credited as Roland Moriyama) was a Japanese character actor who was active in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1980s.

Biography

Rollin was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1907. He arrived in San Francisco, California, around 1919. His mother died when he was young, and he and his father eventually settled in the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, California.

During World War II, like many Japanese Americans, he and his family were imprisoned at Manzanar, a concentration camp in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. After his release, he returned to Los Angeles, where he got parts in films like The Snow Creature and A Girl Named Tamiko.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Selected filmography

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)
Foul Play (1978)
Rabbit Test (1978)
Sextette (1977)
The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
Walk Don't Run (1966)
Morituri (1965)
A Girl Named Tamiko (1962)
The Gallant Hours (1960)
Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
Never So Few (1959)
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Sayonara (1957)
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
The Snow Creature (1954)

References

^ Lentz, Robert J. (2008-08-28). Korean War Filmography: 91 English Language Features through 2000. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3876-1.
^ Warren, Bill (2017-01-12). Keep Watching the Skies!: American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties, The 21st Century Edition. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2505-8.
^ "Movie Call Sheet". The Los Angeles Times. 1 Jun 1967. Retrieved 2019-11-21.