Mickey Curtis

For other people named Michael Curtis, see Michael Curtis (disambiguation).

Mickey Curtis
Born	July 23, 1938 (1938-07-23) (age 73) Tokyo
Occupation	Actor, Singer
Years active	1958–present

Mickey Curtis (ミッキー・カーチス^?) (born 23 July 1938) is a Japanese actor, singer, and TV celebrity. He began his entertainment career in 1958 as an actor, and later became a rockabilly singer. In 1967, he became internationally known through his avant-garde rock band "Mickey Curtis & The Samurai". After five years, Mickey disbanded the group and returned to Japan in 1972, where he began producing other musicians. He speaks Japanese, English, French, German, Italian and Thai fluently. His birth name was Brian Kachisu, from a Japanese father, and Canadian mother.^[1]

Selected filmography

Year	Film	Role
1959	Fires on the Plain (野火 Nobi)	Nagamatsu
1963	Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (真田風雲録 Sanada fūunroku)
1989	Gunhed	Bansho
1992	8 Man (8マン すべての寂しい夜のために Eitoman - Subete no sabishii yoru no tame ni)	Sniper
1996	Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル Suwarōteiru)	Doctor
	Fudoh: The New Generation (極道戦国志 不動 Gokudō sengokushi: Fudō)	Yasha Gang Assassin
1998	Blues Harp
	Hana no O-Edo no Tsuribaka Nisshi (花のお江戸の釣りバカ日誌)
2001	Cowboy Bebop: The Movie	Rasheed
	Lily Festival (百合祭 Yurisai)
	Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (赤い橋の下のぬるい水 Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu)	Nobuyuki Ohnishi
2002	Agitator (荒ぶる魂たち Araburu tamashii-tachi)	Yokomizo
	The Laughing Frog (笑う蛙 Warau Kaeru)	Kiichiro Aisawa
	Aiki	Miyaji
2003	Kikoku (鬼哭)
2004	Izo
2005	Custom Made 10.30	A god
2008	SS	Nishiyama President
	Kurosagi (映画 クロサギ Eiga Kurosagi)
	Cafe Isobe (純喫茶磯辺 Junkissa Isobe)	Hongo
2011	Deadball (デッドボール Deddobōru)

References

1. ^ http://www.watanabepro.co.jp/mypage/artist/mickeycurtis.html

External links

• Mickey Curtis at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Curtis, Mickey
Alternative names
Short description	Japanese actor and singer
Date of birth	23 July 1938
Place of birth	Tokyo
Date of death
Place of death