Rodney Kageyama
Biography
Rodney Kageyama was an American actor of stage, film and television, and also a director and designer. Born in San Mateo, he started out in 1965 in San Francisco as an original member of the Asian American Theater Company and studied at the American Conservatory Theater. In 1979 he moved to Los Angeles and joined East West Players, where he acted, directed and designed; in 1985 he won a Drama-Logue Award for his costume design on Rashomon. He directed The Grapevine in 1993 and in 2001 took the role of Erronius in a staging of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum that had an all Asian American cast. His films included Gung Ho (1986), its television spinoff, Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) and The Next Karate Kid (1994), and he appeared in the Golden Dreams exhibit. On television he was seen in Quantum Leap and Home Improvement. He costume designed short films, including Visas and Virtue.
77years old at death
- Born United States
- Died
- Star sign: ScorpioThe sign runs October 23 to November 21
- Also credited as Rodney Masao Kageyama
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 12 years1982 to 1994
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Behind the award
Kageyama joined East West Players, an Asian American theater group, after moving to Los Angeles in 1979. There he took on acting, directing and design work, and in 1985 he won a Drama-Logue Award for costume design on the group's Rashomon.
Behind the camera
Soji Kashiwagi, who founded the Grateful Crane Ensemble, wrote The Grapevine, and Kageyama took the directing job on that production at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 1993.
Behind the camera
Kageyama became friends with Chris Tashima, who founded Cedar Grove OnStage, on a Coca-Cola commercial shoot in 1984. He went on to costume design and work as a crew member on Tashima's short films, including the Academy Award-winning Visas and Virtue.
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