Richard Loo
Richard Loo (October 1, 1903 – November 20, 1983) was an American film actor who was one of the most familiar Asian character actors in American films of the 1930s and 1940s. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1982.
Chinese by ancestry and Hawaiian by birth, Loo spent his youth in Hawaii, then moved to California as a teenager. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and began a career in business.
The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced Loo to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies and in 1931 made his first film. Like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of films.
His stern features led him to be a favorite movie villain, and the outbreak of World War II gave him greater prominence in roles as vicious Japanese soldiers in such successful pictures as The Purple Heart (1944) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Loo was most often typecast as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during World War II. In the film The Purple Heart he plays a Japanese Imperial Army general who commits suicide because he cannot break down the American prisoners. According to his daughter, Beverly Jane Loo, he didn't mind being typecast as a villain in these movies as he felt very patriotic about playing those parts.
In 1944 he appeared as a Chinese army lieutenant opposite Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom. He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles.
In 1974 he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, opposite Roger Moore and Christopher Lee.
Loo was also a teacher of Shaolin monks in three episodes of the 1972–1975 hit TV series Kung Fu and made a further three appearances as a different character. His last acting appearance was in The Incredible Hulk TV series in 1981, but he continued to act in Toyota commercials into 1982.
Loo died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 1983, age 80.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Fotos
Películas (94)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976 · Chiang-Kai-Shek
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Hai Fat
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972 · Master Sun
Chandler
1971 · Leo
One More Train to Rob
1971 · Mr. Chang
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969 · Kenji Yamashita
The Sand Pebbles
1966 · Major Chin
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 · Otani
Diamond Head
1962 · Yamagata (uncredited)
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962 · George Wah
The Scavengers
1959
Hong Kong Affair
1958 · Li Noon
The Quiet American
1958 · Mr. Heng
Battle Hymn
1957 · Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 · Saloon Manager (uncredited)
The Conqueror
1956 · Captain of Wang's guard
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955 · Robert Hung
House of Bamboo
1955 · Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Soldier of Fortune
1955 · Gen. Po Lin
The Shanghai Story
1954 · Officer
Living It Up
1954 · Dr. Lee
The Bamboo Prison
1954 · Commandant Hsai Tung
Hell and High Water
1954 · Hakada Fujimori
China Venture
1953 · Chang Sung
Destination Gobi
1953 · Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited)
Target Hong Kong
1953 · Fu Chao
5 Fingers
1952
I Was an American Spy
1951 · Col. Masamato
The Steel Helmet
1951 · Sergeant Tanaka
Malaya
1949 · Colonel Genichi Tomura
The Clay Pigeon
1949 · Ken Tokoyama
State Department: File 649
1949 · Marshal Yun Usu
Rogues' Regiment
1948 · Kao Pang
The Cobra Strikes
1948 · Hyder Ali
Half Past Midnight
1948 · Lee Gow
To the Ends of the Earth
1948 · Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
Women in the Night
1948 · Colonel Noyama
Beyond Our Own
1947 · James Wong
Web of Danger
1947 · Wing
Seven Were Saved
1947 · Colonel Yamura
Tokyo Rose
1946 · Colonel Suzuki
Prison Ship
1945 · Capt. Okisawa
First Yank into Tokyo
1945 · Col. Hideko Okanura
Back to Bataan
1945 · Maj. Hasko
China's Little Devils
1945 · Colonel Huraji
China Sky
1945 · Col. Yasuda
Betrayal from the East
1945 · Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945 · Tokyo Joe
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944 · Lt. Shon
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944 · Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
The Purple Heart
1944 · General Ito Mitsubi
So Proudly We Hail
1943 · Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
Destroyer
1943 · Japanese Submarine Commander
Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium
Yanks Ahoy
1943 · Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
China
1943 · Lin Yun
Flight for Freedom
1943 · Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 · Jerry
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Road to Morocco
1942 · Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
Across the Pacific
1942 · First Officer Miyuma
Wake Island
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942 · Emperor Hirohito (uncredited)
Secret of the Wastelands
1941 · Quan
Doomed to Die
1940 · Tong Leader
The Fatal Hour
1940 · Jeweler
Barricade
1939 · Colonel Commander of Rescue Party
Daughter of the Tong
1939 · Wong
Island of Lost Men
1939 · General Ahn Ling
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Delaroch's Chauffeur
Miracles for Sale
1939 · Chinese Soldier in Demo
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939 · Tong Chief
Panama Patrol
1939 · Tommy Young
North of Shanghai
1939 · Jed's Pilot
Shadows Over Shanghai
1938 · Fong
Too Hot to Handle
1938 · Charlie (uncredited)
Blondes at Work
1938 · Sam Wong (uncredited)
West of Shanghai
1937 · Mr. Cheng
That Certain Woman
1937 · Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Good Earth
1937 · Farmer (uncredited)
The Soldier and the Lady
1937 · Tartar (Uncredited)
Lost Horizon
1937 · Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
Stowaway
1936 · Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
Mad Holiday
1936 · Li Yat (uncredited)
Shadow of Chinatown
1936
Roaming Lady
1936 · Chinese Seaman
China Seas
1935 · Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
Stranded
1935 · Chinese Groom (uncredited)
Student Tour
1934 · Geisha's Customer
Now and Forever
1934 · Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1933 · Captain Li
The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932 · Charlie San
War Correspondent
1932 · Bandit (uncredited)
Series (31)
The Incredible Hulk
1977
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Police Story
1973
Kung Fu
1972 · Master Sun, Ho Fai, The Weapons Master
Delphi Bureau
1972 · Shen Si
McCloud
1970 · Y.S. Chen (uncredited)
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Wong Tou
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Family Affair
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Wong
The Wild Wild West
1965
Honey West
1965 · Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Dr. Yahama
Bewitched
1964
Burke's Law
1963 · Grass Slipper
The Outer Limits
1963 · Li-Chin Sung
The Dakotas
1963
The Beachcomber
1962 · Ah Wei
My Three Sons
1960
Hong Kong
1960 · Leo
Bonanza
1959 · General Mu Tsung
Maverick
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · Mr. Eng
The Man Called X
1956
Crossroads
1955 · Colonel
Navy Log
1955
December Bride
1954
Cavalcade of America
1952 · Ho Chung
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Jo-Kai
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
Studio One
1948