James Ishida born July 29, 1943 in Stockton, California) [1], oftentimes credited as Jim Ishida, portrayed Ito T. Fujitsu, Marty McFly's future plant boss, in Back to the Future Part II. Born James Susumu Ishida, Jim has carved out a quite well respected as a character actor and has roles in varios projects over the course of his thirty plus career in both films and television.
His most recent role was in 2005, when he a bit part in the television movie Reading Room. He has had guest parts in such TV shows as "Nurses" (1992), "Baywatch" (1992), Knots Landing (1989), The A-Team (1986), Trapper John, M.D. (1984), and The Rockford Files (1977). He first got his start in televison in apppearances on the hit CBS-TV show Hawaii Five-O, appearing in three episodes in different parts from 1973-1975. Jim also appeared in a bit part as a Bali Majestic Hotel guest in the Ken Kwapis directed film, Dunston Checks In, in 1996. He also had a substansial role in the hit film Armegeddon (1998).
Early life
Born the son of James Takeshi Ashida (born May 19, 1917 in Tokyo, Japan-died ????) and the late Sachiko "Sue" Ishida (b. May 31, 1920- d. August 25, 2010) Ishida and his famiiy were onetime detainees at a Japanese internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas for about a year and a half during World War II, and then released shortly after the conflict ended in 1945. Ishida's mother, Sue, for many years in the nearby Lodi, California (where Ishida and his siblings were also raised) Unified School District as a teacher, librarian, and culminating and as Coordinator of the Instructional Materials Center there in 1982. [2]
