Philip Ahn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
160 acting credits
Acting · 160
Perry Mason
1957
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
M*A*S*H
1972
Ironside
1967
Dragnet
1951
Love, American Style
1969
Mission: Impossible
1966
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
My Three Sons
1960
The F.B.I.
1965
Four Star Playhouse
1952
The Big Valley
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Lawman
1958
Police Woman
1974
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Hawaiian Eye
1959
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Sanford and Son
1972
One Step Beyond
1959
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Switch
1975
The Time Tunnel
1966
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Checkmate
1960
The Rebel
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Laredo
1965
Wonder Woman
1975
Navy Log
1955
It Takes a Thief
1968
Telephone Time
1956
The Third Man
1959
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1960
The Magician
1973
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Stoney Burke
1962
Tightrope
1959
Pete and Gladys
1960
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
The Islanders
1960
Ensign O'Toole
1962
Hey, Jeannie!
1956
Anna and the King
1972
Johnny Midnight
1960
Kraft Mystery Theatre
1961
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
General Electric Theater
1953
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Jefferson Drum
1958
Jungle Jim
1955
One-Eyed Jacks
1961
They Were Expendable
1945
Never So Few
1959
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
1955
Halls of Montezuma
1951
Kung Fu
1972
Thoroughly Modern Millie
1967
The Keys of the Kingdom
1944
Dragon Seed
1944
Shock Corridor
1963
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
1972
The Miracle of the Bells
1948
Macao
1952
The Good Earth
1937
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
1973
The Great Impostor
1960
The Story of Dr. Wassell
1944
Back to Bataan
1945
Impact
1949
Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
1943
The World's Greatest Athlete
1973
Forever Yours
1945
Blood on the Sun
1945
Drums of Fu Manchu
1940
Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
1974
Something to Sing About
1937
Stowaway
1936
Diamond Head
1962
The General Died at Dawn
1936
Battle Hymn
1957
The Karate Killers
1967
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
1966
China Girl
1942
December 7th
1943
The Left Hand of God
1955
Saigon
1947
Singapore
1947
The Purple Heart
1944
Yesterday's Enemy
1959
Desirable
1934
China Passage
1937
Cocoon
1968
Hell's Half Acre
1954
Shanghai
1935
Kung Fu: The Movie
1986
The Chinese Ring
1947
King of Chinatown
1939
Across the Pacific
1942
Intrigue
1947
The Shadow
1940
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
Japanese War Bride
1952
The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942
Red Snow
1952
State Department: File 649
1949
The Shanghai Story
1954
Rogues' Regiment
1948
Around the World
1943
Thank You, Mr. Moto
1937
China
1943
Fair Wind to Java
1953
Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962
The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976
North of Shanghai
1939
China Venture
1953
They Met in Bombay
1941
The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
1943
Behind the Rising Sun
1943
Let's Get Tough
1942
Klondike Annie
1936
Ship Ahoy
1942
Betrayal from the East
1945
Women in the Night
1948
China Sky
1945
Daughter of Shanghai
1937
I Was an American Spy
1951
A Yank on the Burma Road
1942
Barricade
1939
Battle Zone
1952
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
1943
His Majesty O'Keefe
1954
Red Barry
1938
The Man from Down Under
1943
Disputed Passage
1939
Roaring Timber
1937
The Sickle or the Cross
1949
Panama Patrol
1939
The Big Hangover
1950
Jump Into Hell
1955
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
1949
The Cobra Strikes
1948
Submarine Raider
1942
Island of Lost Men
1939
China Corsair
1951
A Girl Named Tamiko
1962
The Way to the Gold
1957
The Creeper
1948
Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts
1937
Hong Kong Confidential
1958
A Scream in the Night
1935
Target Hong Kong
1953
Hawaii Calls
1938
China's Little Devils
1945
Secrets of Monte Carlo
1951
Dragon by the Tail
1961
The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake
1970