Jack Soo

• Birthplace: Oakland, California
• Birthday: October 28, 1915

A genial, sleepy-eyed character player especially adept at the relaxed wisecrack, Soo is best remembered for his hilarious Detective Sgt. Nick Yemana on one of the best sitcoms of the 1970s, "Barney Miller". His career, though, began three decades earlier, and the actor gradually managed to develop roles which were more than stock ethnic types, whose humor was based on the situations of life rather than the limitations of caricature.

Born in California, Soo spent several years of his young adulthood during WWII in an internment camp…more