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]
The Man with the Golden Gun
(Hai Fat)
The Sand Pebbles
(Major Chin)
Women in the Night
(Colonel Noyama)
Hell and High Water
(Hakada Fujimori)
North of Shanghai
(Jed's Pilot)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
(Captain Li)
The Clay Pigeon
(Ken Tokoyama)
The Purple Heart
(General Ito Mitsubi)
Betrayal from the East
(Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani)
Malaya
(Colonel Genichi Tomura)
The Falcon Strikes Back
(Jerry)
The Good Earth
(Farmer (uncredited))
The Steel Helmet
(Sergeant Tanaka)
The Keys of the Kingdom
(Lt. Shon)
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Back to Bataan
(Maj. Hasko)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
(Robert Hung)
I Was an American Spy
(Col. Masamato)
Battle Hymn
(Gen. Kim (scenes deleted))
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
(Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited))
Target Hong Kong
(Fu Chao)
The Quiet American
(Mr. Heng)
The Fatal Hour
(Jeweler)
Confessions of an Opium Eater
(George Wah)
Chandler
(Leo)
First Yank into Tokyo
(Col. Hideko Okanura)
Lost Horizon
(Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited))
The Scavengers
Star Spangled Rhythm
(Emperor Hirohito (uncredited))
To the Ends of the Earth
(Commissioner Lu (uncredited))
One More Train to Rob
(Mr. Chang)
Seven Were Saved
(Colonel Yamura)
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
(Chiang-Kai-Shek)
Flight for Freedom
(Mr. Yokahata (uncredited))
China
(Lin Yun)
A Girl Named Tamiko
(Otani)
The Bamboo Prison
(Commandant Hsai Tung)
West of Shanghai
(Mr. Cheng)
The Shanghai Story
(Officer)
Daughter of the Tong
(Wong)
Diamond Head
Panama Patrol
(Tommy Young)
Across the Pacific
(First Officer Miyuma)
Shadows Over Shanghai
(Fong)
The Secrets of Wu Sin
(Charlie San)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
(Kenji Yamashita)
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
(Master Sun)
State Department: File 649
(Marshal Yun Usu)
China Seas
(Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited))
House of Bamboo
(Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited))
Web of Danger
(Wing)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
(Tong Chief)
Lady of the Tropics
(Delaroch's Chauffeur)
Miracles for Sale
(Chinese Soldier in Demo)
Now and Forever
(Hotel Clerk (uncredited))
5 Fingers
Wake Island
Prison Ship
(Capt. Okisawa)
Tokyo Rose
(Colonel Suzuki)
Doomed to Die
(Tong Leader)
Rogues' Regiment
(Kao Pang)
Secret of the Wastelands
(Quan)
Student Tour
(Geisha's Customer)
Barricade
(Colonel Commander of Rescue Party)
The Story of Dr. Wassell
(Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited))
Around the World in Eighty Days
(Saloon Manager (uncredited))
China Sky
(Col. Yasuda)
Destination Gobi
(Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited))
The Soldier and the Lady
(Tartar (Uncredited))
The Cobra Strikes
(Hyder Ali)
The Conqueror
(Captain of Wang's guard)
Stowaway
(Chinese Merchant (uncredited))
Stranded
(Chinese Groom (uncredited))
Living It Up
(Dr. Lee)
Behind the Rising Sun
(Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium)
Blondes at Work
(Sam Wong (uncredited))
Destroyer
(Japanese Submarine Commander)
So Proudly We Hail
(Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited))
Roaming Lady
(Chinese Seaman)
Half Past Midnight
(Lee Gow)
Road to Morocco
(Chinese Announcer (uncredited))
China's Little Devils
(Colonel Huraji)
God Is My Co-Pilot
(Tokyo Joe)
Mad Holiday
(Li Yat (uncredited))
Hong Kong Affair
(Li Noon)
Soldier of Fortune
(Gen. Po Lin)
Beyond Our Own
(James Wong)
China Venture
(Chang Sung)
Family Affair
Burke's Law
(Grass Slipper)
December Bride
The Incredible Hulk
The Colgate Comedy Hour
(Self)
Kung Fu
My Three Sons
I Dream of Jeannie
(Wong)
Hawaii Five-O
(Wong Tou)
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
Perry Mason
(Mr. Eng)
Studio One
Bewitched
The Beachcomber
(Ah Wei)
The Wild Wild West
Police Story
McCloud
Navy Log
The Dakotas
Cavalcade of America
Honey West
(Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief)
The Outer Limits
(Li-Chin Sung)
Man Called X
Maverick
Hong Kong
(Leo)
Cavalcade of America
(Ho Chung)
Four Star Playhouse
(Jo-Kai)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)