Al Kikume

Al Kikume (born Elmer Kikumi Gozier; October 9, 1894 – March 27, 1972) was an American actor, musician, and bandleader of Hawaiian descent. He was a frequently featured musical performer—on radio, preceding silent film screenings, and at miscellaneous live events Kikume's first credited screen appearance was as "Chief Mehevi" in John Ford's The Hurricane.

Personal life and death By no later than 1911, Kikume was married to Virgil Edna Smith, with whom he had one son, Bernard Kikume Gozier, aka Bernie Gozier. appearing in at least one film, Green Dolphin Street, alongside his father.

Kikume died in Los Angeles on March 27, 1972.

Partial filmography Hula (1937) – Native musician accompanying Clara Bow's hula dance Tarzan the Fearless (1933) The Perils of Pauline (1933) serial The Hurricane (1937) – Chief Mehevi Air Devils (1938) – Don Kahano Mandrake the Magician (1939) serial Typhoon (1940) South of Pago Pago (1940) Jungle Girl (1941) serial Perils of Nyoka (1942) serial White Savage (1943) She Gets Her Man (1945) – Joe Song of the Sarong (1945) Green Dolphin Street (1947) On the Isle of Samoa (1950) – Chief Tihati Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)