Biography
Teru Shimada was born on November 17, 1905 in Mito, Japan as Akira Shimada. He was an actor, known for "You Only Live Twice (1967)", "Tokyo Joe (1949)" and "The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)". He died on June 19, 1988 in Encino, California, USA.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Best Ever Bond
2002
as Mr. Osato (archive footage) (uncredited)
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
You Only Live Twice
1967
as Mr. Osato
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the c...
Batman
1966
as Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.
Walk Don't Run
1966
as Mr. Kurawa
During the housing shortage of the Summer Olympic Games in 1964, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts p...
King Rat
1965
as Japanese General
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison....
Sunday in New York
1963
as Maitre 'd (uncredited)
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.
The Wackiest Ship in the Army
1960
as Samada
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't kn...
Battle of the Coral Sea
1959
as Comm. Mori
A US submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major WWII battle.
Tokyo After Dark
1959
as Sen-Sei
An American serviceman stationed in Tokyo, who's engaged to a local singer, faces both a military court-martial and a trial in the Japanese courts aft...
Run Silent, Run Deep
1958
as Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
The captain of a submarine sunk by the Japanese during WWII is finally given a chance to skipper another sub after a year of working a desk job. His s...
Battle Hymn
1957
as Korean Official
Dean Hess, who entered the ministry to atone for bombing a German orphanage, decides he’s a failure at preaching. Rejoined to train pilots early in th...
Navy Wife
1956
as Mayor Yoshida
Japanese women, seeng how well American soldiers stationed in their country treat their wives, demand the same from their husbands.
House of Bamboo
1955
as Nagaya (uncredited)
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen...
The Snow Creature
1954
as Subra
A botanical expedition to the Himalayas captures a Yeti and brings it back alive to Los Angeles, where it escapes and runs amok, seeking food.
The War of the Worlds
1953
as Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from...
Tokyo Joe
1949
as Ito
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals an...
Dragon Seed
1944
as Villager (uncredited)
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in a...
They Met in Bombay
1941
as Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
1939
as Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egyp...
White Legion
1936
as Dr. Nogi
In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the w...
Revolt of the Zombies
1936
as Buna
The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. An evil count has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed ...
Oil for the Lamps of China
1935
as Tea House Owner
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
Public Hero Number 1
1935
as Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb...
Imitation of Life
1934
as Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face fami...
Charlie Chan's Courage
1934
as Jiu Jitsu Man
Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begin...
Murder at the Vanities
1934
as Koto (uncredited)
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading la...
Four Frightened People
1934
as Native
Malaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave t...