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]
124 acting credits
Acting · 124
Perry Mason
1957
Bonanza
1959
Bewitched
1964
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Maverick
1957
My Three Sons
1960
Four Star Playhouse
1952
The Incredible Hulk
1977
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Burke's Law
1963
The Outer Limits
1963
Studio One
1948
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
McCloud
1970
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Family Affair
1966
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977
Police Story
1973
Navy Log
1955
Cavalcade of America
1952
Honey West
1965
December Bride
1954
The Dakotas
1963
Hong Kong
1960
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
The Beachcomber
1962
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
The Man Called X
1956
Delphi Bureau
1972
The Sand Pebbles
1966
The Conqueror
1956
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955
One More Train to Rob
1971
Lost Horizon
1937
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
5 Fingers
1952
Kung Fu
1972
China Seas
1935
The Good Earth
1937
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
Stowaway
1936
Back to Bataan
1945
The Steel Helmet
1951
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
The Shanghai Story
1954
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969
Road to Morocco
1942
Soldier of Fortune
1955
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
Chandler
1971
Diamond Head
1962
Destroyer
1943
Too Hot to Handle
1938
House of Bamboo
1955
The Fatal Hour
1940
Hell and High Water
1954
Malaya
1949
Battle Hymn
1957
China Venture
1953
So Proudly We Hail
1943
Stranded
1935
Across the Pacific
1942
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Wake Island
1942
China Sky
1945
Kung Fu: The Movie
1986
Women in the Night
1948
To the Ends of the Earth
1948
I Was an American Spy
1951
The Soldier and the Lady
1937
Living It Up
1954
Rogues' Regiment
1948
That Certain Woman
1937
Doomed to Die
1940
The Clay Pigeon
1949
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
1976
The Purple Heart
1944
Behind the Rising Sun
1943
Destination Gobi
1953
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939
Now and Forever
1934
Miracles for Sale
1939
China
1943
State Department: File 649
1949
Flight for Freedom
1943
Star Spangled Rhythm
1942
Mad Holiday
1936
Roaming Lady
1936
Blondes at Work
1938
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Prison Ship
1945
The Falcon Strikes Back
1943
The Quiet American
1958
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962
Shadows Over Shanghai
1938
Island of Lost Men
1939
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962
The Bamboo Prison
1954
Web of Danger
1947
First Yank into Tokyo
1945
Betrayal from the East
1945
Barricade
1939
North of Shanghai
1939
Panama Patrol
1939
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
Student Tour
1934
Tokyo Rose
1946
Yanks Ahoy
1943
West of Shanghai
1937
War Correspondent
1932
Seven Were Saved
1947
The Scavengers
1959
Half Past Midnight
1948
The Cobra Strikes
1948
Secret of the Wastelands
1941
Daughter of the Tong
1939
The Secrets of Wu Sin
1932
China's Little Devils
1945
Beyond Our Own
1947
Target Hong Kong
1953
Hong Kong Affair
1958