LOS ANGELES – Mako, the Japan-born actor who used his Oscar nomination for the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles” to push for better roles for Asian-American actors, has died. He was 72. Mako, whose birth ...

Mako Iwamatsu, the Japanese-American acting pioneer who opened the doors for Asian Americans to Hollywood, died of esophageal cancer at his home in southern California on Friday, the Los Angeles Times ...

Japanese-American actor Mako, who was Oscar-nominated for his supporting role in “The Sand Pebbles” and who co-founded the nation’s first Asian-American theater company, died Friday of esophageal ...

Mako, among the earliest Japanese actors on both the New York stage and Hollywood screen, died Friday at his home in Somis, Calif. He was 72. In the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles,” he played the Chinese ...

LOS ANGELES -- Japanese-American actor Mako, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles, has died from esophageal cancer, the spokesman for a theater company he ...

Mako, a Japanese-American actor nominated for an Oscar and Tony who also helped form one of the leading Asian-American theatre companies in the United States, died of esophageal cancer at his home in ...

Mako, 72, a Japanese-born actor who had a notable Hollywood film and television career and co-founded the East West Players, an early Asian American theater company, died July 21 at his home in Somis, ...