Keone Young

Keone J. Young (born September 6, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American character actor. His father is Chinese, his mother is Japanese. He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Diff'rent Strokes, The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters, The Simpsons, Alias, JAG, The Steve Harvey Show and on the daytime soaps The Young and the Restless and Genera... more

Keone J. Young (born September 6, 1947 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American character actor. His father is Chinese, his mother is Japanese. He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Diff'rent Strokes, The Golden Girls, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Family Matters, The Simpsons, Alias, JAG, The Steve Harvey Show and on the daytime soaps The Young and the Restless and Generations. Young played Dr. Michael Kwan on the short-lived multi-ethnic medical drama Kay O'Brien, which aired in the fall of 1986 on CBS. Despite the fact that the network had high hopes for the series (which was a sort of Grey's Anatomy for the 80's), just 9 of 13 episodes were aired. He was also a semi-regular on the HBO series Deadwood as Mr. Wu. Young has many voice-over credits as well: Grandpa in American Dragon: Jake Long, Kaz in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, He has also voiced Mr. Sanban in Codename: Kids Next Door, the firebending master "Jeong... less