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Keone Joseph Young (born September 6, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is a character actor from Honolulu, Hawaii. His father is Chinese, his mother is Japanese. He has guest starred in many TV shows, and is a semi-regular on the HBO series Deadwood as Mr. Wu.

Young is also notable for voicing Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long and Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi. He has also voiced Mr. Sanban in Codename: Kids Next Door, the firebending master Jeong Jeong in an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Kuzo in The Mark of Kri and it's sequel Rise of the Kasai, and Chen Stormstout in World of Warcraft.

He played Buck Bokai, a famous baseball player by the 24th century, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "If Wishes Were Horses". He also played Hoshi Sato's father in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Vanishing Point". In Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo, he voices the villain Commander Uehara Daizo, Saico-Tek, and other voices. He's also Commander Jun Sato in Star Wars Rebels, a pair of henchmen on Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, and will voice Dr. Onda in Ultraman: Rising.

Speaking Japanese and Cantonese fluently, he is responsible for teaching Grey DeLisle Japanese, alongside Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi co-star Janice Kawaye.


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