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Jan 25, 2023 · - Ned Hardy. Whatever Happened To Gedde Watanabe, ‘Long Duk Dong’ In Sixteen Candles? By Nick Lee | April 11, 2023. Gedde Watanabe is a comedian and actor best known for his roles in the 80s teen movie, Sixteen Candles. Early Life. Garry “Gedde” Watanabe was born in Ogden, Utah, on June 26, 1955.
2 hours ago · Utah-born Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe’s Sixteen Candles character, Chinese exchange student Long Duk Dong, was controversial even at the time of the film’s release, with the New ...
May 13, 2022 · Why Gedde Watanabe Thinks His Breakout Sixteen Candles' Role Is Bittersweet. Universal Pictures. By Witney Seibold / May 13, 2022 4:13 pm EST. Actor Gedde Watanabe was born in 1955 in...
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Feb 15, 2022 · Gedde Watanabe talked about his role in “Sixteen Candles” and how things have changed for him and the Asian community in Hollywood since then. He talked about Asian actors that are doing great...
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He had a starring role in both the film Gung Ho [1] and its television spinoff. [1] In the 1989 movie UHF [1] starring "Weird Al" Yankovic, Watanabe co-starred as Kuni, a karate instructor and abusive host of a TV game show called Wheel of Fish. He later reprised this role on the Weird Al Show.
YearTitleRoleNotes2021Professor HarpinEpisode: "Parents Weekend"2021HenryEpisode: "Eggs"2020The DisappointmentsGary ChenRecurring role2019GlennEpisode: "Pilot"May 20, 2014 · In the years since the portrayal — Long Duk Dong and Sixteen Candles was released 30 years ago this month — Gedde Watanabe has appeared more than two dozen films, played Nurse Yosh on ER, and...
Played by Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe as a caricature of a Korean exchange student, Long Duk Dong – aka ‘the Donger’, who speaks in broken English and is introduced by the sound of a gong – has been blasted by critics as one of the most offensive portrayals of an Asian character in Hollywood history.