
Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies. Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960. In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, and an ordained Zen master. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sessue Hayakawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Gunther's High Road

Asian Americans

Yoshiwara

戦場にかける橋

スイスファミリーロビンソン

Three Came Home

The Last of the Line

Wagon Train

Forfaiture

Macao, l'enfer du jeu

Hell to Eternity

The Dragon Painter

The Wrath of the Gods

House of Bamboo

The Geisha Boy

Tokyo Joe

チート

The Man Beneath

The Tong Man

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Green Mansions

The Secret Game

新しき土

His Birthright

Daughter of the Dragon

Where Lights Are Low

The Daydreamer

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

The City of Dim Faces

The Death Mask

The Temple Of Dusk

The Honorable Friend

Temptation

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

Patrouille blanche

Le Soleil de minuit

Malaria

Le Cabaret du Grand Large

Quartier chinois

The Devil's Claim

The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant

The Typhoon

The Clue

遙かなり母の国

悲劇の将軍 山下奉文

レ・ミゼラブル あゝ無情 第一部 神と悪魔

レ・ミゼラブル あゝ無情 第二部 愛と自由の旗

The Frozen Moment

The Bottle Imp

The Courageous Coward

Tempête sur l'Asie

The Call of the East

The Great Prince Shan

女間者秘聞 赤穂浪士

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

The Victoria Cross

La Bataille

純情二重奏

The Big Wave

The Secret Sin

The First Born

An Arabian Knight

Bonds of Honor

Forbidden Paths

Hidden Pearls

The Honor of His House

Li Ting Lang

The Swamp

Black Roses

O Mimi san

J'ai tué!

Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks

A Heart in Pawn

The Bravest Way

The Vermilion Pencil

Night Life in Hollywood

After Five

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making

Escape to Paradise/Water Birds

The Soul of Kura San

Each to His Kind

日本敗れず

The Chinatown Mystery

His Debt

The Beggar Prince

The Illustrious Prince

The Brand of Lopez

Hashimura Togo

Five Days to Live

The Jaguar's Claws

Alien Souls

The Danger Line

The Gray Horizon

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