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Victor Wong
Highest Rated: 90% Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Jul 30, 1927
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Heavy-lidded Chinese-American character actor who brought his slightly puffy features and an assured, amiable playing style to a series of wizened film roles in the 1980s and 90s. Born in San Francisco's Chinatown to immigrant parents, Wong went to college originally intending to follow in his father's footsteps and enter politics, possibly back in China. When China became Communist, though, he moved back to San Francisco and fell in with the "Beat" movement of the early 60s. (He was one of Ken Kesey's "Merry Pranksters" and Jack Kerouac even wrote about Wong in "Big Sun.") Wong later became one of TV's first Chinese-American reporters when he worked for PBS Channel 9 from 1968 to 1974. A bout with the face-paralyzing Bell's palsy made him leave TV, though, and he went into stage acting instead.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | 29% | 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain | Grandpa Mori (Character) | $308.1K | 1998 |
| 58% | 73% | Seven Years in Tibet | Chinese 'Amban' (Character) | $37.9M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paper Dragons | Master Chang (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | The Adventurers | Uncle Nine (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up | Grandpa (Character) | $67.8K | 1995 |
| 15% | 40% | 3 Ninjas Kick Back | Grandpa Mori Shintaro (Character) | $10.1M | 1994 |
| 86% | 89% | The Joy Luck Club | Old Chong the Piano Teacher (Character) | $32.8M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ice Runner | Fyodor (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 35% | 53% | 3 Ninjas | Grandpa (Character) | $29.0M | 1992 |
| 88% | 75% | Tremors | Walter Chang (Character) | $15.5M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forbidden Nights | Ho (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | Eat a Bowl of Tea | Wah Gay (Character) | $95.2K | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Is Cheap | Blind Man (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 86% | 88% | The Last Emperor | Chen Pao Shen (Character) | $43.0M | 1987 |
| 62% | 61% | Prince of Darkness | Prof. Howard Birack (Character) | $12.9M | 1987 |
| 21% | 47% | The Golden Child | The Old Man (Character) | $78.1M | 1986 |
| 20% | 15% | Shanghai Surprise | Ho Chong (Character) | $2.2M | 1986 |
| 74% | 82% | Big Trouble in Little China | Egg Shen (Character) | $11.0M | 1986 |
| 90% | 50% | Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart | Uncle Tam (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 55% | 53% | Year of the Dragon | Harry Yung (Character) | $18.6M | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nightsongs | Fung Leung (Character) | - | 1984 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poltergeist: The Legacy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996 |