Sessue Hayakawa
Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies. Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960. In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, and an ordained Zen master. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sessue Hayakawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
99 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 99
Wagon Train
1957
Taikouki
1965
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
Asian Americans
2020
The Geisha Boy
1958
The Daydreamer
1966
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
Tokyo Joe
1949
Les Miserables II: Banner of Love and Freedom
1950
House of Bamboo
1955
Green Mansions
1959
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Les Miserables I: God and the Devil
1950
Hell to Eternity
1960
Three Came Home
1950
Lover's Duet
1967
The Cheat
1915
日本敗れず
1954
The First Born
1921
The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
1953
Daughter of the Dragon
1931
The Big Wave
1961
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
2002
John Gunther's High Road
1959
The Swamp
1921
Each to His Kind
1917
The Tong Man
1919
The Typhoon
1914
The Daughter of the Samurai
1937
Running Hollywood
1932
The Secret Sin
1915
Yoshiwara
1937
47 Vendettas
1953
Quartier chinois
1947
Where Lights Are Low
1921
The Motherland Far Far Away
1950
The Vermilion Pencil
1922
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
1958
The Secret Game
1917
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks
1931
The White Man's Law
1918
Banzai
1918
The Honorable Friend
1916
The Call of the East
1917
Malaria
1943
The City of Dim Faces
1918
After Five
1915
Patrouille blanche
1942
Li Ting Lang
1920
Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
1960
Gambling Hell
1942
The Great Prince Shan
1924
Temptation
1915
The Last of the Line
1914
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
1921
Forfaiture
1937
Alien Souls
1916
The Temple Of Dusk
1918
The Clue
1915
The Courageous Coward
1919
His Birthright
1918
The Honor of His House
1918
The Brand of Lopez
1920
The Illustrious Prince
1919
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938
The Beggar Prince
1920
The Devil's Claim
1920
O Mimi san
1914
A Heart in Pawn
1919
Forbidden Paths
1917
The Bottle Imp
1917
The Frozen Moment
1964
The Soul of Kura San
1916
The Bravest Way
1918
The Man Beneath
1919
The Dragon Painter
1919
Hidden Pearls
1918
Le Cabaret du Grand Large
1946
Hashimura Togo
1917
The Jaguar's Claws
1917
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922
The Wrath of the Gods
1914
The Victoria Cross
1916
I Have Killed
1924
The Chinatown Mystery
1915
Bonds of Honor
1919
Night Life in Hollywood
1922
His Debt
1919
Sen Yan’s Devotion
1924
The Sun Rises from the East
1932
The Battle
1923
Five Days to Live
1922
Black Roses
1921
The Danger Line
1924
The Gray Horizon
1919
Le Soleil de minuit
1943
The Death Mask
1914
An Arabian Knight
1920