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Mako Iwamatsu (マコ岩松) (born Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松信 Iwamatsu Makoto) on December 10, 1933) is a Japanese-American actor. He was born in Kobe, Japan, moved to the United States of America in the late 1940s and joined the military in the 1950s. He became a naturalized citizen in 1956. His first cinema role was in the 1959 film Never So Few.

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1966 film The Sand Pebbles, and for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for the 1976 musical Pacific Overtures.

He is also known for his role as the Wizard opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the two Conan movies Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer. In 2001 he appeared as Admiral Yamamoto in Pearl Harbor.

He has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7095 Hollywood Blvd.

Cartoon fans may know him as the voice actor of the evil demon Aku in the American cartoon series Samurai Jack, and the parody of Aku, Achoo, in Duck Dodgers, as well as Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender. He guest-starred in the episode "A Good Day" of The West Wing as an economics professor and former rival of President Bartlet.

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