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History's Secret Heroes: Series 1: George Takei and the American Internment Camps

History's Heroes

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The Life and Times of George Takei

The Takei's returned to Los Angeles where they lived in poverty on Skid Row. George went to college to study architecture, but he developed a love of acting. He won the role that would make him famous across the world when he was cast as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek. Susan Kame: To see that place that was so full of life and smells good and bad, it felt so empty.

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