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Richard Loo

Richard Loo

Birthday: 1903-10-01 | Place of Birth: Maui, Hawaii, USA

Richard Loo was a prolific actor who appeared in over 120 films between 1931 and 1982. He was most often stereotyped as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during the Second World War. 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. However, the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced him 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. Text from Wikpedia, published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1974
The Man with the Golden Gun

as    Hai Fat

1971
One More Train to Rob

as    Mr. Chang

1958
The Quiet American

as    Mr. Heng

1957
Battle Hymn

as    Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)

1955
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

as    Robert Hung

1954
The Bamboo Prison

as    Commandant Hsai Tung

1954
Living It Up

as    Dr. Lee

1954
Hell and High Water

as    Hakada Fujimori

1953
Target Hong Kong

as    Fu Chao

1951
I Was an American Spy

as    Col. Masamato

1951
The Steel Helmet

as    Sergeant Tanaka

1949
Malaya

as    Colonel Genichi Tomura

1949
The Clay Pigeon

as    Ken Tokoyama

1948
Women in the Night

as    Colonel Noyama

1948
Rogues' Regiment

as    Kao Pang

1947
Web of Danger

as    Wing

1946
Tokyo Rose

as    Colonel Suzuki

1945
First Yank into Tokyo

as    Col. Hideko Okanura

1945
China Sky

as    Col. Yasuda

1945
China's Little Devils

as    Colonel Huraji

1945
Betrayal from the East

as    Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani

1945
Back to Bataan

as    Maj. Hasko

1943
The Falcon Strikes Back

as    Jerry

1943
China

as    Lin Yun

1943
Flight for Freedom

as    Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)

1941
Secret of the Wastelands

as    Quan

1939
Panama Patrol

as    Tommy Young

1937
West of Shanghai

as    Mr. Cheng

1932
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

as    Captain Li