Miko Mayama

Miko Mayama (born August 15, 1939 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese-American actress. She was active in the 1960s and 1970s.

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).

Her films include Impasse (1969), The Hawaiians (1970), Amanda Fallon (1973), That Man Bolt (1973) and Cage Without a Key (1975).

Mayama met Burt Reynolds in 1968 while working in Japan as a kabuki theater player.^{[dubious – discuss]} 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.^[1]

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)^[2]
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^[3]
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)