
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]

奥さまは魔女

かわいい魔女ジニー

The Outer Limits

Perry Mason

燃えよ!カンフー

The Wild Wild West

五本の指

ボナンザ

China Venture

超人ハルク

砲艦サンパブロ

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

Hawaii Five-O

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

McCloud

The Steel Helmet

The Keys of the Kingdom

失はれた地平線

Honey West

God Is My Co-Pilot

Police Story

Road to Morocco

Maverick

The Dick Cavett Show

The Colgate Comedy Hour

China

Malaya

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Now and Forever

テムプルの上海脱出

Family Affair

パナマの死角

80日間世界一周

Destroyer

Battle Hymn

Rogues' Regiment

The Soldier and the Lady

My Three Sons

007/黄金銃を持つ男

The Bamboo Prison

Miracles for Sale

Living It Up

The Good Earth

The Story of Dr. Wassell

Yanks Ahoy

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

I Was an American Spy

House of Bamboo

China Seas

Lady of the Tropics

Seven Were Saved

Blondes at Work

地獄と高潮

The Purple Heart

Back to Bataan

慕情

Star Spangled Rhythm

Prison Ship

Half Past Midnight

Mad Holiday

Burke's Law

December Bride

Soldier of Fortune

Too Hot to Handle

Betrayal from the East

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Wake Island

Destination Gobi

Stranded

The Quiet American

To the Ends of the Earth

Behind the Rising Sun

So Proudly We Hail

Island of Lost Men

The Dakotas

Confessions of an Opium Eater

The Fatal Hour

The Clay Pigeon

The Falcon Strikes Back

Doomed to Die

First Yank into Tokyo

Flight for Freedom

West of Shanghai

Diamond Head

That Certain Woman

One More Train to Rob

Target Hong Kong

Barricade

Kung Fu: The Movie

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

The Scavengers

A Girl Named Tamiko

Panama Patrol

Tokyo Rose

Student Tour

The Cobra Strikes

Roaming Lady

Studio One

China Sky

The Shanghai Story

Shadows Over Shanghai

Web of Danger

The Secrets of Wu Sin

Chandler

State Department: File 649

Daughter of the Tong

Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur

Secret of the Wastelands

China's Little Devils

The Conqueror

Women in the Night

Cavalcade of America

War Correspondent

North of Shanghai

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities

Hong Kong Affair

Beyond Our Own

The Man Called X

Hong Kong

The Delphi Bureau