Miko Mayama
{{Short description|Japanese-American actress}}
{{BLP sources|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|08|15}}
| birth_place = Kyoto, Empire of Japan
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1965-1979
}}
Miko Mayama (born August 15, 1939 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese-American actress. She was active in the 1960s and 1970s.
Career
Mayama made film and television appearances from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. She had a supporting role in Hey Landlord! (1966); her guest appearances on series television include Valentine's Day (1965), I Spy (1966), Star Trek (1967), It Takes a Thief (1968), The Beverly Hillbillies (1971), Ironside (1971), Medical Center (1971-1972), Hawaii Five-O (1972), Kojak (1974), Mannix (1974), and M*A*S*H (1979).small roll in Kojak 1973, Season 2, Ep.4.
Her films include Impasse (1969), The Hawaiians (1970), Amanda Fallon (1973), That Man Bolt (1973) and Cage Without a Key (1975).
Personal life
Mayama met Burt Reynolds in 1968 while working in Japan as a kabuki theater player.{{cite book |last1=Reynolds |first1=Burt |title=But Enough About Me |date=2015 |publisher=Blink Publishing |location=London |quote=One evening I went to a theater in the suburbs of Tokyo, where I saw a young actress named Miko Mayama .... She was in her early twenties and had been in Kabuki since the age of nine.}} Reynolds was in Japan to film Impasse and Mayama signed on to the cast. They lived together from 1968 to 1971. She learned English by watching Bugs Bunny cartoons, according to Reynolds' autobiography But Enough About Me.{{cite web | url=https://www.tumblr.com/redshirtgal/177843872442/burt-reynolds-had-many-loves-both-onscreen-and-in | title=Tales of the Unknown Redshirt }}
Filmography
- 1965: Valentine's Day (Television series, a sequence)
- 1965: Wendy and Me, a consequence (TV series)
- 1965: Boeing Boeing
- 1966: I Spy (I Spy, the TV series, a consequence)
- 1966: Walk, Don't Run (Walk Don't Run) : Waitress in pink kimono
- 1966: Hey, Landlord (TV series)
- 1967: F Troop (TV series), From Karate with Love
- 1967: Star Trek (episode: "A Taste of Armageddon", character: Yeoman Tamura)
- 1967: The War Wagon (The War Wagon){{Cite web|last=Limited|first=Alamy|title=Stock Photo - The actor Kirk Douglas with Miko Mayama and Midori in a scene from the film "The War Wagon", USA|url=https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-actor-kirk-douglas-with-miko-mayama-and-midori-in-a-scene-from-89130673.html|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Alamy|language=en}}
- 1968: It Takes a Thief, the TV series, a sequence
- 1969: Impasse
- 1969: Love, American Style (TV series)
- 1969: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
- 1970: The Flying Nun, a consequence (TV series)
- 1970: The Hawaiians{{Cite web|last=Limited|first=Alamy|title=Stock Photo - THE HAWAIIANS, Miko Mayama, 1970|url=https://www.alamy.com/the-hawaiians-miko-mayama-1970-image334038903.html|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Alamy|language=en}}
- 1970: Matt Lincoln (TV series), a sequence
- 1971: To Rome with Love (TV series)
- 1971: The Beverly Hillbillies, a sequence, three episodes (TV series)
- 1971: Ironside (1967 TV series) (Ironside, the TV series, a consequence)
- 1971-1972: Medical Center (TV series), two consequences
- 1972: Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series) Hawaii Five (Hawaii Five-O, the TV series, a consequence)
- 1973: The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (TV series), a sequence
- 1973: Amanda Fallon (TV movie)
- 1973: That Man Bolt
- 1974: Kojak (Kojak, the TV series, a consequence)
- 1974: Mannix (TV series), a sequence
- 1975: Cage Without a Key (TV movie)
- 1979: M*A*S*H (television series, episode 7-18)
References
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American actresses of Japanese descent
Category:Western (genre) television actors