American actor (1903–1983)
Richard Loo
Born (1903-10-01 ) October 1, 1903Died November 20, 1983(1983-11-20) (aged 80) Resting place San Fernando Mission Cemetery , Los Angeles, CaliforniaOccupation Actor Years active 1931–1982 Spouses
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.
Early life
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.
Career
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 God Is My Co-Pilot The Purple Heart he plays a Japanese Imperial Army general who commits suicide because he cannot break down the American prisoners.[ 1] [ 2] Spencer Chan , Willie Fung and Frank Chew.[ 3]
In 1944 he appeared as a Chinese army lieutenant opposite Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom Samuel Fuller 's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet
In 1974 he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun 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 The Incredible Hulk Toyota commercials into 1982. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 1983.
Personal life
Loo's first wife, Bessie Sue , was a well-known Hollywood agent. They had twin daughters Angela Marie Loo[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Filmography
Loo in The Purple Heart War Correspondent The Secrets of Wu Sin The Bitter Tea of General Yen Now and Forever Student Tour The Painted Veil Limehouse Blues The Mysterious Mr. Wong Stranded Captured in Chinatown Shadows of the Orient China Seas Roaming Lady Shadow of Chinatown Mad Holiday Stowaway After the Thin Man The Good Earth Lost Horizon The Soldier and the Lady The Singing Marine Outlaws of the Orient That Certain Woman West of Shanghai Thank You, Mr. Moto Blondes at Work Too Hot to Handle Shadows Over Shanghai North of Shanghai Panama Patrol Mr. Wong in Chinatown Miracles for Sale Lady of the Tropics Island of Lost Men Daughter of the Tong Barricade The Fatal Hour Doomed to Die Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery They Met in Bombay Secrets of the Wasteland A Yank on the Burma Road Star Spangled Rhythm Remember Pearl Harbor Submarine Raider Bombs Over Burma Little Tokyo, U.S.A. Wake Island Across the Pacific Manila Calling Flying Tigers Road to Morocco City Without Men Flight for Freedom The Amazing Mrs. Holliday The Falcon Strikes Back China Yanks Ahoy Behind the Rising Sun Destroyer So Proudly We Hail! Jack London Rookies in Burma The Purple Heart The Story of Dr. Wassell The Keys of the Kingdom Betrayal from the East God Is My Co-Pilot China Sky China's Little Devils Back to Bataan First Yank into Tokyo Prison Ship Tokyo Rose The Beginning or the End Seven Were Saved Web of Danger Beyond Our Own (1947, Short) as James WongWomen in the Night To the Ends of the Earth Half Past Midnight The Cobra Strikes The Golden Eye Rogues' Regiment State Department: File 649 The Clay Pigeon Malaya The Steel Helmet Chinatown Chump (1951, Short) as Chinese counterfeiterOperation Pacific I Was an American Spy 5 Fingers Target Hong Kong Destination Gobi China Venture Hell and High Water The Shanghai Story Living It Up The Bamboo Prison Soldier of Fortune House of Bamboo Sessue Hayakawa , uncredited)Love is a Many-Splendored Thing The Conqueror Around the World in 80 Days Battle Hymn The Quiet American Hong Kong Affair The Scavengers Espionage: Far East (1961)Seven Women from Hell Confessions of an Opium Eater A Girl Named Tamiko Diamond Head The Sand Pebbles One More Time Which Way to the Front? One More Train to Rob Chandler The Man with the Golden Gun
Television
Summer Theater 1 episode (Foo Young ) (1953)Fireside Theater I Cover Korea ) (1953) (Major Chang in The Traitor ) (1953)December Bride The Chinese Dinner ) (1954) as ClientMy Little Margie San Francisco Story ) (1954) as Mr. TangCavalcade of America Ordeal in Burma ) (1954) (Ho Chung in Diplomatic Outpost ) (1956)TV Reader's Digest The Brainwashing of John Hayes ) (1955) (Lew Gar Mun in The Smuggler ) (1956)Navy Log Dr. Van ) (1956) as General HashimotoCrossroads Calvary in China ) (1956) as ColonelThe Man Called X Assassination ) (1956)Four Star Playhouse Wall of Bamboo ) (1956) as Jo-KaiTombstone Territory Tong War ) (1958) as Quong KeyHong Kong The Jade Empress ) (1960) (Thug in Suitable for Framing ) (1961)Maverick The Golden Fleecing ) (1961) as Lee Hong ChangFollow the Sun The Woman Who Never Was ) (1961) as District AttorneyBonanza Day of the Dragon ) (1961) as General Mu TsungThe Beachcomber Charlie Six Kids ) (1962) as Ah WeiHawaiian Eye Two Too Many ) (1963) as C.K. YangThe Dakotas The Chooser of the Slain ) (1963) as George YangThe Outer Limits The Hundred Days of the Dragon ) (1963) as Li-Chin SungWagon Train The Widow O'Rourke Story ) (1963) as Liu YangPerry Mason The Case of the Floating Stones ) (1963) as Mr. EngI Spy So Long, Patrick Henry ) (1965) as Mr. TsungHoney West The Owl and the Eye ) (1965) as Tog-Chinese fine arts thiefVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea Timebomb ) (1965) as Li TungBurke's Law Deadlier Than the Male ) (1965) as Grass SlipperThe Wackiest Ship in the Army The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Parts I & II ) (1966)The Wild Wild West The Night the Dragon Screamed ) (1966) as Wang ChungI Dream of Jeannie Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper ) (1966) as WongThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. The Indian Affairs Affair ) (1966) as Dr. YahamaFamily Affair The Mother Tongue ) (1967) as Mr. ChenMy Three Sons Weekend in Paradise ) (1967) as Mr. ChangHawaii Five-O Twenty-Four Karat Kill ) (1968) as Wong TouIt Takes a Thief A Case of Red Turnips ) (1968) (Dr. Langpoor in Payoff in the Piazza ) (1969) (Wong in Project X ) (1970)Marcus Welby, M.D. A Matter of Humanities ) (1969) as Kenji YamashitaHere Comes the Brides Marriage, Chinese Style ) (1969) as Chi PeiBewitched Samantha's Better Halves ) (1970) as Mr. TanakaThe Sixth Sense With This Ring, I Thee Kill ) (1972) as MatsuoThe Delphi Bureau The Deadly Little Errand ) (1972) as Shen SiKung Fu Pilot (1972) Blood Brother (1973) Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974)) (Chen in The Tong ) (1973) (Wu Chang in Arrogant Dragon ) (1974) (Ho Fai, the weapons master in The Devil's Champion ) (1974)Ironside In the Forests of the Night ) (1973) as Lin Chu TaiMcCloud The Solid Gold Swingers ) (1973) as Y.S. Chen (uncredited)Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law The Attacker ) (1974) as TanakaCollision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur The Quest Welcome to America, Jade Snow ) (1976) as Dr. Li PoPolice Story The Blue Fog ) (1977) as Eddie LeeThe Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin ) (1977) as Chen LeeThe Incredible Hulk East Winds ) (1981) as Kam Chong (final appearance)Note: Loo twice appeared as a talk-show guest--with Johnny Carson in 1969 and Dick Cavett in 1971. The latter, who loved to do an impression of Loo, specifically asked him about his career, including being of Chinese ancestry yet playing Japanese soldiers in WWII films (Loo said he didn't mind; work was work) and the different ways Chinese and Japanese spoke English.
References
^ Milberg, Doris. (2010). World War II on the big screen : 450+ films, 1938-2008 ISBN 978-0-7864-5574-4 OCLC 607553739 . ^ "Obituary: RICHARD LOO, ACTOR 5 DECADES" . The New York Times . Retrieved October 21, 2013 .^ Slide, Anthony. (2012). Hollywood unknowns : a history of extras, bit players, and stand-ins ISBN 978-1-61703-475-6 OCLC 777251346 . ^ "Angela Marie Loo, Born 06/28/1931 in California - CaliforniaBirthIndex.org" . Californiabirthindex.org . Retrieved July 30, 2017 .^ "Beverly Jane Loo was born on June 28, 1931 in Los Angeles County, California. Her father's last name is Loo, and her mother's maiden name is Sue. If Beverly is still alive, she's now eighty-six years old. Her potential siblings include Angela (born 1931)" . californiabirthindex.org . Retrieved July 30, 2017 .^ Devine, Elizabeth (November 1984). Annual Obituary 1983 ISBN 978-0-912289-07-6 . Retrieved July 2, 2011 .
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