Taylor Wily

Taylor Wily packed several lifetimes into one big, warm presence. Most people know him as Kamekona, the shrimp-truck entrepreneur and lovable fixer on Hawaii Five-0 and then Magnum P.I. — a role he made so effortlessly charming that the character became a fan favorite across both shows. What a lot of those fans may not realize is that they were watching a genuine pioneer: Wily, fighting as Teila Tuli, was literally in the very first UFC fight ever televised back in 1993, which is an insane piece of combat sports history to carry around. Before Hollywood, he was a serious sumo competitor too. Born and raised in Honolulu, he was the embodiment of Hawaiian aloha spirit on screen, and every scene he was in felt warmer for it. He passed away in June 2024 just days after his 56th birthday, and the outpouring from his Hawaii Five-0 castmates made clear he was just as beloved off camera as on it.

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Name (English)

Taylor Wily

Name (Japanese)

テイラ・トゥリ

Reading

ていら・とぅり

Born

June 14, 1968 – June 20, 2024

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Origin

Honolulu, United States

Height

188 cm

Occupation

rikishi / actor / mixed martial arts fighter / television actor

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Wily
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3702254

Tags

• rikishi
• actor
• mixed martial arts fighter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.