Pat Morita
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"Noriyuki "Pat" Morita" was an American film and television actor who was well known for playing the roles of Matsuo "Arnold" Takahashi on Happy Days and Kesuke Miyagi in the The Karate Kid (1984 film)/The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.

Morita was the lead actor in the television program Mr. T and Tina, regarded as the first American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent, and Ohara (TV series)/Ohara, a police-themed drama. Both television shows were aired on American Broadcasting Company/ABC, but they were both short-lived.

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My fame is largely due to young people, they're the first ones to discover me.

It was interesting to watch the film with them, and for the first time I was relating to the Miyagi character, as the mentor, as the one trying to guide the misguided youth.

I had to find things to laugh at.