
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.

Cocoon

The Islanders

M*A*S*H

Perry Mason

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タイムトンネル

The Wild Wild West

Mission: Impossible

ボナンザ

Sanford and Son

They Met in Bombay

China Venture

Have Gun, Will Travel

Yesterday's Enemy

It Takes a Thief

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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

Hawaii Five-O

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

The Keys of the Kingdom

Desirable

ワンダーウーマン

The Streets of San Francisco

ショック集団

God Is My Co-Pilot

The Great Impostor

The Third Man

Thoroughly Modern Millie

鬼警部アイアンサイド

Wanted: Dead or Alive

China

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

片目のジャック

Mannix

Switch

The Magician

テムプルの上海脱出

パナマの死角

Dragon Seed

80日間世界一周

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

Shanghai

The Shadow

Rogues' Regiment

Battle Hymn

The Man from Down Under

Anna and the King

My Three Sons

Ensign O'Toole

They Were Expendable

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

美しき野獣

ドラグネット

General Electric Theater

The Left Hand of God

Kraft Mystery Theatre

The Story of Dr. Wassell

The General Died at Dawn

The Good Earth

Laredo

Telephone Time

Macao

I Was an American Spy

Police Woman

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

The Big Valley

恋愛専科

Thank You, Mr. Moto

The Big Hangover

Drums of Fu Manchu

Something to Sing About

His Majesty O'Keefe

Impact

Back to Bataan

The Purple Heart

The Sickle or the Cross

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

慕情

Pete and Gladys

Singapore

Halls of Montezuma

The Miracle of the Bells

Ship Ahoy

Blood on the Sun

King of Chinatown

Betrayal from the East

December 7th

Saigon

Behind the Rising Sun

Island of Lost Men

Adventures in Paradise

Stoney Burke

Confessions of an Opium Eater

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

世にも不思議な物語

Lawman

Japanese War Bride

China Passage

Disputed Passage

The Tuttles of Tahiti

China Corsair

Tightrope

Hawaii Calls

Never So Few

Diamond Head

FBIアメリカ連邦警察

The World's Greatest Athlete

Hell's Half Acre

China Girl

Target Hong Kong

Barricade

Kung Fu: The Movie

Intrigue

Hawaiian Eye

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

Daughter of Shanghai

Hong Kong Confidential

Fair Wind to Java

Battle Zone

A Girl Named Tamiko

Panama Patrol

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

Submarine Raider

Roaring Timber

The Cobra Strikes

Around the World

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Jungle Jim

The Chinese Ring

The Karate Killers

China Sky

The Shanghai Story

Let's Get Tough

A Scream in the Night

The Rebel

The Creeper

Red Snow

State Department: File 649

Checkmate

A Yank on the Burma Road

China's Little Devils

Women in the Night

Jump Into Hell

The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

North of Shanghai

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

The Way to the Gold

Red Barry

Forever Yours

Secrets of Monte Carlo

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita

Dragon by the Tail

Johnny Midnight