Career
Jim Ishida portrayed T. Fujitsu, Marty McFly"s boss in 2015 in Back to the Future Participant II in 1989, and his most recent role was in 2005, when he had a part in the television movie Reading Room. He has had guest parts in such television shows as Nurses (1992), Baywatch (1992), Knots Landing (1989), The A-Team (1986), Trapper John, Doctor of Medicine (1984), and The Rockford Files (1977). Ishida first got his start in television in appearances on the hit Columbia Broadcasting System-television show Hawaii Five-O, appearing in three episodes in different parts from 1973 to 1975.
Ishida also appeared in a part as a Bali Majestic Guest in the Ken Kwapis directed film Dunston Checks In in 1996.
Born the son of James Takeshi Ishida (May 19, 1917 – ?) and the late Sachiko "Sue" Ishida (May 31, 1920 – August 25, 2010). Ishida, who was also raised in the nearby town of Lodi, California, and his family were internees at a Japanese American internment camp in Rohwer, Arkansas for about a year during World World War II, then released shortly after the conflict ended in 1945.