That was probably the wildest idea I could’ve imagined, and coming from Pat Morita, it was awesome.” He called me he said, ‘BZ BZ, I have a great idea for Karate Kid 5.’ Miyagi’s going to die, and he wanted him to have a proper Okinawan burial, but while he’s sick, he saw Johnny Lawrence as being his doctor, and I thought that was interesting. He wasn’t done with Miyagi yet, and this is in his last years. Actually, my favorite one was Pat Morita himself had an idea. “I had so many people that had ideas for Johnny Lawrence. In a recent interview with Collider, Zabka talked about a conversation he had with Morita before he passed away in 2005, wherein he said Morita pitched him an idea that would have brought Johnny back for the fifth film. Miyagi, and it was shared with William Zabka, who played Johnny in the first film.
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This was his final role as the character, but he did have an idea for a fifth Karate Kid movie featuring Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid film franchise, starring in the first three films with Ralph Macchio, then the fourth film with Hilary Swank. He left behind his third wife Evelyn and three daughters from his first two marriages.The Karate Kid actor Pat Morita made his mark as Mr. On November 24, 2005, Morita died of liver failure at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. He also appeared in several Karate Kid sequels. Morita returned to playing small parts and supporting roles on television and film in his later career. The film was both a massive commercial and critical success with Morita earning his one and only Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Mr. His character mentors Daniel in martial arts when he is targeted by bullies. In 1984, Morita's career soared to new heights with his role in The Karate Kid where he played a maintenance worker in an apartment building who befriends a young tenant named Daniel (played by Ralph Macchio). In 1982, Morita returned to Happy Days for its final season.
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He left the series after the first season to star in the short-lived comedy Mr. In 1975 Morita joined the cast of the Ron Howard and Henry Winkler sitcom Happy Days. Foxx later gave him a role on his sitcom Sanford and Sons in the early '70s. Morita sometimes worked as the opening act for singers Vic Damone and Connie Stevens and comedian Redd Foxx. Sally Marr, Lenny Bruce's mother, acted as his agent and manager in his early days. After the war, the family moved back to California where he helped out at the family's Chinese restaurant in Sacramento.Īround the age of 30, Morita began to pursue a career in comedy. government to an internment camp in Arizona-a fate suffered by many Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. Morita and his family were soon moved by the U.S. Morita contracted spinal tuberculosis around the age of two and spent nine years at a sanitarium, battling for his life. Pat was best known for his role as "Arnold" Takahashi on the wildly popular sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984) and "Mr." Kesuke Miyagi in The Karate Kid movie franchise, for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1984. Pat Morita Net Worth: Pat Morita was a Japanese-American actor who had a net worth of $5 million dollars.
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