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Victor Wong

Highest Rated: 90% Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)

Lowest Rated: 0% 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)

Birthday: Jul 30, 1927

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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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Highest rated movies

90% 50% Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
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86% 89% The Joy Luck Club
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86% 88% The Last Emperor
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73% 82% Big Trouble in Little China
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62% 61% Prince of Darkness
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58% 73% Seven Years in Tibet
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53% 53% Year of the Dragon
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35% 53% 3 Ninjas
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20% 47% The Golden Child
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Victor Wong

Victor Wong EAT A BOWL OF TEA, Victor Wong (right), 1989, © Columbia EAT A BOWL OF TEA, seated from left: Victor Wong, Russell Wong, 1989, © Columbia THREE NINJAS, Michael Treanor, Victor Wong , Chad Power, Max Elliott Slade, 1992 THE SON OF KONG, Helen Mack, Victor Wong, (back to camera), Frank Reicher, (being assisted), Robert Armstrong, (right), 1933 THE SON OF KONG, Victor Wong, Robert Armstrong, John Marston, Frank Reicher, Helen Mack, 1933 DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, Victor Wong, 1985, (c)Orion Pictures DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, Laureen Chew, Victor Wong, 1985, (c)Orion Pictures DIM SUM: A LITTLE BIT OF HEART, Victor Wong, Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, 1985, (c)Orion Classics MR MOTO TAKES A VACATION, Iris Wong, Peter Lorre, 1939, TM and Copyright (c) 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved View more photos

Filmography

Movies

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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 42% 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% 76% 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
20% 47% The Golden Child The Old Man (Character) $78.1M 1986
20% 15% Shanghai Surprise Ho Chong (Character) $2.2M 1986
73% 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
53% 53% Year of the Dragon Harry Yung (Character) $18.6M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nightsongs Fung Leung (Character) - 1984

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Poltergeist: The Legacy Unknown (Guest Star) 1996