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]

Known For: Acting

Born: Maui, Hawaii, USA, 1903-10-01

Died: 1983-11-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	The Secrets of Wu Sin	Charlie San	60
2	1932	The Bitter Tea of General Yen	Captain Li	62
3	1934	Now and Forever	Hotel Clerk (uncredited)	66
4	1934	Student Tour	Geisha's Customer	50
5	1935	Stranded	Chinese Groom (uncredited)	58
6	1935	China Seas	Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)	63
7	1936	Roaming Lady	Chinese Seaman	50
8	1936	Mad Holiday	Li Yat (uncredited)	60
9	1936	Stowaway	Chinese Merchant (uncredited)	67
10	1937	Lost Horizon	Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)	70
11	1937	The Soldier and the Lady	Tartar (Uncredited)	65
12	1937	The Good Earth	Farmer (uncredited)	63
13	1937	West of Shanghai	Mr. Cheng	54
14	1938	Blondes at Work	Sam Wong (uncredited)	61
15	1938	Shadows Over Shanghai	Fong	48
16	1939	North of Shanghai	Jed's Pilot	0
17	1939	Panama Patrol	Tommy Young	50
18	1939	Mr. Wong in Chinatown	Tong Chief	52
19	1939	Miracles for Sale	Chinese Soldier in Demo	64
20	1939	Lady of the Tropics	Delaroch's Chauffeur	61
21	1939	Island of Lost Men	General Ahn Ling	57
22	1939	Daughter of the Tong	Wong	42
23	1939	Barricade	Colonel Commander of Rescue Party	50
24	1940	The Fatal Hour	Jeweler	57
25	1940	Doomed to Die	Tong Leader	55
26	1941	Secret of the Wastelands	Quan	0
27	1942	Star Spangled Rhythm	Emperor Hirohito (uncredited)	59
28	1942	Wake Island		57
29	1942	Across the Pacific	First Officer Miyuma	66
30	1942	Road to Morocco	Chinese Announcer (uncredited)	69
31	1943	The Amazing Mrs. Holliday		64
32	1943	The Falcon Strikes Back	Jerry	56
33	1943	Flight for Freedom	Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)	54
34	1943	China	Lin Yun	68
35	1943	Behind the Rising Sun	Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium	57
36	1943	Destroyer	Japanese Submarine Commander	66
37	1943	So Proudly We Hail	Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)	55
38	1944	The Purple Heart	General Ito Mitsubi	60
39	1944	The Story of Dr. Wassell	Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)	63
40	1944	The Keys of the Kingdom	Lt. Shon	70
41	1945	God Is My Co-Pilot	Tokyo Joe	70
42	1945	Betrayal from the East	Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani	58
43	1945	China Sky	Col. Yasuda	46
44	1945	China's Little Devils	Colonel Huraji	40
45	1945	Back to Bataan	Maj. Hasko	61
46	1945	First Yank into Tokyo	Col. Hideko Okanura	54
47	1945	Prison Ship	Capt. Okisawa	60
48	1946	Tokyo Rose	Colonel Suzuki	50
49	1947	Seven Were Saved	Colonel Yamura	61
50	1947	Web of Danger	Wing	48
51	1947	Beyond Our Own	James Wong	0
52	1948	Women in the Night	Colonel Noyama	39
53	1948	To the Ends of the Earth	Commissioner Lu (uncredited)	57
54	1948	Half Past Midnight	Lee Gow	60
55	1948	The Cobra Strikes	Hyder Ali	50
56	1948	Rogues' Regiment	Kao Pang	65
57	1949	State Department: File 649	Marshal Yun Usu	43
58	1949	The Clay Pigeon	Ken Tokoyama	55
59	1949	Malaya	Colonel Genichi Tomura	65
60	1951	The Steel Helmet	Sergeant Tanaka	70
61	1951	I Was an American Spy	Col. Masamato	62
62	1952	5 Fingers		76
63	1953	Target Hong Kong	Fu Chao	53
64	1953	Destination Gobi	Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp	57
65	1953	China Venture	Chang Sung	73
66	1954	Hell and High Water	Hakada Fujimori	61
67	1954	The Bamboo Prison	Commandant Hsai Tung	64
68	1954	Living It Up	Dr. Lee	64
69	1954	The Shanghai Story	Officer	48
70	1955	Soldier of Fortune	Gen. Po Lin	59
71	1955	House of Bamboo	Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited)	61
72	1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Robert Hung	60
73	1956	The Conqueror	Captain of Wang's guard	34
74	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Saloon Manager (uncredited)	66
75	1957	Battle Hymn	Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)	65
76	1958	The Quiet American	Mr. Heng	58
77	1958	Hong Kong Affair	Li Noon	0
78	1959	The Scavengers		50
79	1962	Confessions of an Opium Eater	George Wah	54
80	1962	A Girl Named Tamiko	Otani	50
81	1962	Diamond Head	Yamagata (uncredited)	54
82	1966	The Sand Pebbles	Major Chin	72
83	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities	Kenji Yamashita	0
84	1971	One More Train to Rob	Mr. Chang	54
85	1971	Chandler	Leo	45
86	1972	Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon	Master Sun	71
87	1974	The Man with the Golden Gun	Hai Fat	64
88	1976	Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur	Chiang-Kai-Shek	0
89	2002	The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)	58

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One		50
2	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
3	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Jo-Kai	63
4	1952	Cavalcade of America		35
5	1952	Cavalcade of America	Ho Chung	35
6	1954	December Bride		55
7	1955	Navy Log		45
8	1956	The Man Called X		0
9	1957	Perry Mason	Mr. Eng	77
10	1957	Maverick		68
11	1960	Hong Kong	Leo	0
12	1960	My Three Sons		65
13	1962	The Beachcomber	Ah Wei	0
14	1963	The Dakotas		57
15	1963	The Outer Limits	Li-Chin Sung	78
16	1963	Burke's Law	Grass Slipper	60
17	1964	Bewitched		79
18	1965	The Wild Wild West		75
19	1965	Honey West	Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief	70
20	1965	I Dream of Jeannie	Wong	78
21	1966	Family Affair		66
22	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
23	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Wong Tou	71
24	1970	McCloud		71
25	1972	Kung Fu	Master Sun	77
26	1972	Kung Fu	Ho Fai, The Weapons Master	77
27	1973	Police Story		69
28	1977	The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries		71
29	1977	The Incredible Hulk		73

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