Richard Loo
One of the most prolific character actors of the 20th century, Chinese-American Richard Loo had his most recognizable role as a Thai industrialist in the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun." Born in Hawaii to Chinese parents, Loo moved to California in his teens and became an actor after his career as a businessman was unsuccessful. In the '30s he mostly had uncredited bit roles as Chinese men, but when World War II began he would often be cast as a villainous Japanese soldier, as he was in the 1944 submarine drama "The Purple Heart." Other war movie roles include supporting parts in the spy drama "Tokyo Rose" and "Back to Bataan," starring John Wayne. In one of his rare sympathetic roles he played a Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War film "The Steel Helmet" in 1951. Although principally a character actor in small parts, he did occasionally have more substantial supporting roles. He played a general in the Clark Gable adventure "Soldier of Fortune," appeared with William Holden in the romance "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," and was Major Chin in the Oscar-nominated period drama "The Sand Pebbles" in 1966. Aside from his role in "The Man with the Golden Gun," he also made several appearances on the martial-arts-themed TV show "Kung Fu," where he played a Shaolin monk master.
Photos
Richard Loo
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Collision Course | Chiang-Kai-Shek (Character) | - | 1976 |
40% |
|
The Man With the Golden Gun | Hai Fat (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
|
Kung Fu |
Master Sun/ |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
One More Train to Rob | Mr. Chang (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
Chandler | Leo (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
Souls for Sale | George Wah (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Girl Named Tamiko | Otani (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Scavengers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1959 |
50% |
|
The Quiet American | Mr. Heng (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hong Kong Affair | Li Noon (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
|
Battle Hymn | Gen. Kim (Character) | - | 1957 |
53% |
|
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing | Robert Hung (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
|
Soldier of Fortune | General Po Lin (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
|
Living It Up | Dr. Lee (Character) | - | 1954 |
80% |
|
Hell and High Water | Hakada Fujimori (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Target Hong Kong | Fu Chao (Character) | - | 1953 |
100% |
|
Five Fingers | Japanese Ambassador (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet |
|
I Was an American Spy | Col. Masamoto (Character) | - | 1951 |
100% |
|
The Steel Helmet | Sgt. Tanaka (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
|
Malaya | Colonel Genichi Tomura (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | State Department: File 649 | Marshal Yun Usu (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Clay Pigeon | Ken Tokoyama (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women in the Night | Col. Noyama (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rogue's Regiment | Kao Pang (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Were Saved | Col. Yamura (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond Our Own | Unknown (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tokyo Rose | Col. Suzuki (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | First Yank Into Tokyo | Col. Hideko Okanura (Character) | - | 1945 |
86% |
|
Back to Bataan | Maj. Hasko (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | China Sky | Col. Yasuda (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
|
God Is My Co-Pilot | Tokyo Joe, Japanese Ace (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Betrayal From the East |
Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki/ |
- | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prison Ship | Capt. Osikawa (Character) | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet |
|
Flight for Freedom | Mr. Yokahata (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
|
China | Lin Yun (Character) | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Yanks Ahoy | Japanese Submarine Officer (Character) | - | 1943 |
89% |
|
Wake Island | Mr. Saburo Kurusu (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1942 |
70% |
|
Flying Tigers | Dr. Tsing (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1942 |
80% |
|
Across the Pacific | First Officer Miyuma (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Tokyo, U.S.A. | Oshima (Character) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Fatal Hour | Jeweler (Character) | - | 1940 |
No Score Yet |
|
Mr. Wong in Chinatown | Tong Chief (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daughter of the Tong | Wong - Hotel Clerk (Character) | - | 1939 |
95% |
|
The Good Earth | Chinese Farmer (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
|
West of Shanghai | Mr. Cheng (Character) | - | 1937 |
86% |
|
The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Capt. Li (Character) | - | 1933 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | 74% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972-1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McCloud | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sixth Sense | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Bewitched | Mr. Tanaka (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Here Come the Brides | Chi Pei (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Affair | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 58% | I Dream of Jeannie | Wong (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wackiest Ship in the Army | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mr. Eng (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
92% | 92% | The Outer Limits | Li-Chin Sung (Character) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dakotas | George Yang (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |