[1] Kamekona began his acting career on television, debuting in a 1968 episode of Hawaii Five-O, one of 32 different appearances over 11 years.

Other TV appearances included The Brian Keith Show; Sanford and Son (incidentally, as a Honolulu police detective in the three-part episode "The Hawaiian Connection", a nod to his Hawaii Five-O character); Barnaby Jones; six episodes of Magnum, P.I.

He appeared as Agawa, employed by Riochi Tanaka in the episode "The Rising Sun Of Death" of the series Miami Vice.

Actor participant in brief training scene re-enactment during PR tour of trilogy (April 23, 1989), besides the Rose Theatre Shakespearian event day, accompanied by many of The Karate Kid Part II cast members, and was a featured character during the tributes to Magnum, P.I.

Kamekona was found dead in his Los Angeles, California, apartment on May 2, 1996, at age 60.