Adele Yoshioka

Acting

Adele Yoshioka

Born 1946-11-30 · San Diego, California, USA

Born in San Diego, California, Yoshioka has started her career as an actress in the late 1960s. Following her appearance on Star Trek, she also worked on episodes of Mannix (1970, with John Wheeler), Laugh-In (1972, with Frank Welker), Anna and the King (1972, with Samantha Eggar, Keye Luke, and Brian Tochi), Banacek (1972, with Ned Romero, Kermit Murdock, Louise Sorel, Peter Brocco, and Bob Harks), The Magician (1974, with France Nuyen and Bob Harks and directed by Alexander Singer), Kung Fu (1975, with Keye Luke and Clyde Kusatsu), The Paper Chase (1978, with Earl Boen and Charles Hallahan), and Night Court (1984, with Karen Austin, John Larroquette, John Staible, Juan De Villa, and Tony Rocco). Her appearance from Kung Fu was later re-used in the film version, Kung Fu: The Movie in 1986. Yoshioka had memorable appearances as Suzuki in Gaily, Gaily (1969, with Brian Keith, Harvey Jason, Peter Brocco, and Don Keefer), as Mai-Ling Chan in The Return of Charlie Chan (1973, with Louise Sorel), and as Sunny in Magnum Force (1973, with Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, and Wayne Grace). Other film work include Sweet Charity (1969, with Ricardo Montalban, Ben Vereen, John Wheeler, Jimmy Fields, Lance LeGault, and Buddy Joe Hooker), the television drama They Only Come Out at Night (1975, with Tim O'Connor and Barbara Luna), Swashbuckler (1976, with Genevieve Bujold, Sid Haig, Harry Basch, Henry Kingi, Sr., Anthony De Longis, and Bob Minor), the exercise video Maximum Potential (1987, with Mark DeAlessandro), the television thriller The Perfect Bride (1991, with Marilyn Rockafellow and directed by Terrence O'Hara), the thriller Distant Cousins (1993, with Mary Crosby, Brian Bonsall, and Cyndi Pass), the horror thriller The Nurse (1997, with Jay Underwood and Richard Penn), and the thriller A Table for One (1999, with Mark Rolston). Yoshioka is a founding member and co-chairperson of the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment where she also served on the Board of Directors. Other boards she serves on include the Association of Asian Pacific American Artists and East West Players. Yoshioka has held several executive positions at Image Organization, Behaviour Worldwide, CineTel Films, and World International Network.

Acting credits

Magnum Force poster
7.1

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

Magnum Force

1973

Sweet Charity poster
6.9

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

Sweet Charity

1969

Gaily, Gaily poster
4.3

After runaway Ben Young is robbed and left on his own, he is taken in by Lil, the head of a Chicago brothel. Acting as a surrogate mother for Ben, who thinks she runs a boardinghouse, Lil gets him a job with Francis Sullivan at the local newspaper. As Ben is exposed to the workings of the big city, he realizes the extent of government corruption and sets out on the daunting task of reforming Chicago politics, finding several allies along the way.

Gaily, Gaily

1969

Swashbuckler poster
6.2

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Swashbuckler

1976

They Only Come Out at Night poster
7.0

Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.

They Only Come Out at Night

1975

Wicked Ways poster
5.1

A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.

Wicked Ways

1999

The Nurse poster
4.5

A traumatized nurse plots revenge against a catatonic businessman whom she blames for the death of her family. By integrating herself as his personal nurse, she plots revenge by killing off his family members one by one.

The Nurse

1997

Distant Cousins poster
6.0

Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.

Distant Cousins

1993

Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential poster
6.3

Dolph Lundgren has put together his varied and comprehensive personal workout on home video, comprised of body sculpturing, boxing, shadow boxing, running, jumping rope, yoga, the martial arts and more. Even includes stress management - exercise for the mind.

Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential

1987

The Return of Charlie Chan poster
5.5

Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.

The Return of Charlie Chan

1973

The Perfect Bride poster
5.7

A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.

The Perfect Bride

1991