George shibata biography

American military officer and actor

George Shibata (November 14, 1926 – May 20, 1987) was an American military officer, attorney, and film & television actor.

He was the first Japanese American graduate of any of the United States Service Academies, graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1951. He served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1946, and in the U.S.

Air Force as a commissioned officer from 1951 to 1955, as a fighter pilot.

George shibata biography

After leaving Regular Air Force service, Shibata embarked on a civilian career as an attorney, and later as a motion picture and television actor. He was perhaps best known for his portrayal of Lt. Suki Ohashi in the 1959 film Pork Chop Hill, which starred Gregory Peck as Joseph G.

Clemons, his real-life former West Point classmate.

Early life and military service

Shibata was born in 1926, the youngest of nine children, to immigrant Issei parents in Garland, Utah, where a Japanese farming communit