Cast
Richard Loo
Acting
Cast
Richard Loo
Known for
Acting
Born
1903-10-01
From
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Died
1983-11-20
Biography
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]
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Hai Fat
Around the World in 80 Days
as Saloon Manager (uncredited)
The Sand Pebbles
as Major Chin
Lost Horizon
as Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
The Conqueror
as Captain of Wang's guard
China Seas
as Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
China Sky
as Col. Yasuda
Stowaway
as Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
Stranded
as Chinese Groom (uncredited)
Chandler
as Leo
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
as Robert Hung
Roaming Lady
as Chinese Seaman
One More Train to Rob
as Mr. Chang
Wake Island
Destroyer
as Japanese Submarine Commander
The Story of Dr. Wassell
as Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
Soldier of Fortune
as Gen. Po Lin
Battle Hymn
as Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
5 Fingers
Student Tour
as Geisha's Customer
God Is My Co-Pilot
as Tokyo Joe
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
as Master Sun
House of Bamboo
as Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
Malaya
as Colonel Genichi Tomura
Rogues' Regiment
as Kao Pang
To the Ends of the Earth
as Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
Back to Bataan
as Maj. Hasko
Hell and High Water
as Hakada Fujimori
Road to Morocco
as Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
Across the Pacific
as First Officer Miyuma
Too Hot to Handle
as Charlie (uncredited)
Kung Fu: The Movie
as Master Sun
The Good Earth
as Farmer (uncredited)
The Keys of the Kingdom
as Lt. Shon
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
as Kenji Yamashita
Diamond Head
as Yamagata (uncredited)
China
as Lin Yun
The Soldier and the Lady
as Tartar (Uncredited)
So Proudly We Hail
as Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
as Captain Li
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Fatal Hour
as Jeweler
The Steel Helmet
as Sergeant Tanaka
Star Spangled Rhythm
as Emperor Hirohito (uncredited)
Living It Up
as Dr. Lee
Lady of the Tropics
as Delaroch's Chauffeur
Panama Patrol
as Tommy Young
Confessions of an Opium Eater
as George Wah
Women in the Night
as Colonel Noyama
The Quiet American
as Mr. Heng
China Venture
as Chang Sung
Island of Lost Men
as General Ahn Ling
The Shanghai Story
as Officer
Miracles for Sale
as Chinese Soldier in Demo
State Department: File 649
as Marshal Yun Usu
That Certain Woman
as Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Bamboo Prison
as Commandant Hsai Tung
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Chiang-Kai-Shek
Destination Gobi
as Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp
I Was an American Spy
as Col. Masamato
Behind the Rising Sun
as Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium
Prison Ship
as Capt. Okisawa
The Purple Heart
as General Ito Mitsubi
West of Shanghai
as Mr. Cheng
Doomed to Die
as Tong Leader
The Falcon Strikes Back
as Jerry
Now and Forever
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Cobra Strikes
as Hyder Ali
Yanks Ahoy
as Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
North of Shanghai
as Jed's Pilot
Flight for Freedom
as Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
Betrayal from the East
as Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
Mad Holiday
as Li Yat (uncredited)
Tokyo Rose
as Colonel Suzuki
The Scavengers
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
as Tong Chief
Seven Were Saved
as Colonel Yamura
The Clay Pigeon
as Ken Tokoyama
Blondes at Work
as Sam Wong (uncredited)
Barricade
as Colonel Commander of Rescue Party
Hong Kong Affair
as Li Noon
First Yank into Tokyo
as Col. Hideko Okanura
A Girl Named Tamiko
as Otani
The Secrets of Wu Sin
as Charlie San
Shadows Over Shanghai
as Fong
Beyond Our Own
as James Wong
War Correspondent
as Bandit (uncredited)
Half Past Midnight
as Lee Gow
Target Hong Kong
as Fu Chao
Web of Danger
as Wing
Secret of the Wastelands
as Quan
China's Little Devils
as Colonel Huraji
Daughter of the Tong
as Wong