Garret T. Sato (7 November 1964 – 25 March 2020; age 55) was an actor who appeared as a regular background actor, portraying a Voyager officer in several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager.
Sato was originally scheduled to appear as one of the Ilari guards in the third season episode "Warlord" for which he filmed his scenes on Thursday 5 September 1996 on Paramount Stage 16. However, in the final episode fellow background actor Lou Slaughter replaced him.
Born in Oahu, Hawaii, Sato attended the University of Hawai'i and the Leeward Community College. Following his move to Los Angeles, he trained acting under Cary-Hiroyuki, Sal Romeo, and Suze Lanier.
Among his earlier acting work are supporting roles in the comedy Son in Law (1993, with Dan Gauthier and Graham Jarvis), The Shadow (1994, with Aaron Lustig, Ethan Phillips, Rudolph Willrich, Larry A. Hankin, Lily Mariye, Patrick Fischler, James Lew, Al Goto, and Raul Reformina), The Mask (1994, with Reg E. Cathey, Christopher Darga, Kevin Grevioux, Beau Lotterman, Scott McElroy, Robert O'Reilly, Louis Ortiz, and Jeremy Roberts), The Dangerous (1995, with John Savage, Joel Grey, and Cary-Hiroyuki), Midnight Man (1995, with James Lew, Eric Pierpoint, Diane DiLascio, Steven Vincent Leigh, Juli Donald, and Bill Bolender), Bulletproof (1996, with Maury Sterling and Tracee Lee Cocco), and the drama Beyond Paradise (1998).
He also appeared in episodes of One West Waikiki (1994, with Tony Plana), Total Security (1997, with Tony Plana, Kristin Bauer, Stanley Kamel, Clyde Kusatsu, and Benjamin W.S. Lum ), On Common Ground (1999), and Martial Law (1999, with Gelbert Coloma, Hiro Koda, Frank Torres, and Jeff Imada).
Further film credits include Pearl Harbor (2001), Chick Street Fighter (2003), Cerberus (2005), the action film Lethal (2005), Only the Brave (2006), the comedy All In (2006, with Robert Costanzo and Jamison Yang), the action drama Aces (2006), Ghost Hunters: Point of Contact (2006), Machine (2007, with Neal McDonough), The Flyboys (2008, with Robert Costanzo and Tommy Hinkley), Street Kings (2008, with Justin Rodgers Hall), Stiletto (2008, with Efrain Figueroa, Ben Bray, Peewee Piemonte, Mark DeAlessandro, Alina Andrei, Kavi Raz, and Sala Baker), the drama Fear of Attraction (2009), Project Purgatory (2010), Corrado (2010, with Michael Bailey Smith), Violent Blue (2011, with Tad Atkinson), Wasteland (2011, with Zero Kazama), Blue Dream (2013, with Walter Koenig and Richard Riehle), and The Wolverine (2013, with Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart and executive produced by Stan Lee).
Television guest roles include Alias (2003, with Greg Grunberg, Victor Garber, Clifton Collins, Jr., and created and executive produced by J.J. Abrams), Unfabulous (2005, with Molly Hagan and Tim Russ), Untold Stories of the ER (2005-2006), 24 (2006, with Tzi Ma), ER (2007, with Paula Malcomson and Lily Mariye), In Case of Emergency (2007, with Leigh Allyn Baker, Darin Cooper, and John Jurgens), Days of Our Lives (2007), The Bold and the Beautiful (2002, 2005, and 2008, with Ivar Brogger), NCIS: Los Angeles (2011), Hawaii Five-0 (2010-2011, with Daniel Dae Kim), and Intelligence (2014, with John Billingsley and Annie Wersching).
Sato later worked on the television movie Chiang (2015), the drama Eternal Salvation (2016), the comedy Buddy Solitaire (2016), the action film The Last Tour (2016, with Ron Balicki, Anthony De Longis, Mimi Cozzens, Diana Lee Inosanto, and Michael Krawic), the thriller House Rules (2016, with James Black), Sidney S. Liufau's Seers (2016), the short fantasy film The Water Phoenix (2016), the crime thriller To Topple an Empire (2016, with Toni Blair), and the action drama Duel of Legends (2016, with Cary-Hiroyuki).
Sato passed away on 25 March 2020 at the age of 55. [1]
Star Trek appearances[]
- VOY:
- "Caretaker"
- "Phage"
- "Heroes and Demons"
- "Projections"
- "The 37's"
- "[[[Death Wish (episode)|[Death Wish]]"