Takei, George
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1937- ) US actor and author, best known for his role as Mr Sulu in the original Star Trek. Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe (1979) with Robert Lynn Asprin places a Japanese mercenary and ninja in a free-for-all Near Future corporate world. To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu (1994), though focusing on the Star Trek years, interestingly speaks of Takei's experience as a Japanese-American child incarcerated during World War Two in an American concentration camp. [JC]
George Hosato Takei
born Los Angeles, California: 20 April 1937
works
- Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe (Chicago, Illinois: Playboy Press Paperbacks, 1979) Robert Lynn Asprin [hb/Ken Barr]
nonfiction
- To the Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu (New York: Pocket Books, 1994) [nonfiction: hb/]
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