Article: Nobu McCarthy

Nobu McCarthy, 67 Starlet, theather director

Thursday, April 11, 2002

Los Angeles -- Nobu McCarthy, a Hollywood starlet who later became artistic director of the pioneering theater company East West Players, died Saturday after being stricken on the set of a movie that she was working on in Londrina, Brazil. She was 67.

McCarthy had just returned to work after recovering from pneumonia and was stricken with what doctors diagnosed as an aneurysm in her aorta, said Tamlyn Tomita, an actress also in the cast. The movie "Gaijin II," about several generations of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, suspended production after her death.

McCarthy was born as Nobu Atsumi in ...

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