Richard Loo

Birthday

1903-10-01

Place of Birth

Maui, Hawaii, USA

Biography

Richard Loo was a prolific actor who appeared in over 120 films between 1931 and 1982. He was most often stereotyped as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during the Second World War. 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. However, the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced him 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. Text from Wikpedia, published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
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Battle Hymn

Battle Hymn

1957 6.3
Battle Hymn

as Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)

1957
The Bamboo Prison

The Bamboo Prison

1954 6.1
The Bamboo Prison

as Commandant Hsai Tung

1954
Malaya

Malaya

1949 6.5
Malaya

as Colonel Genichi Tomura

1949
Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose

1946 5.4
Tokyo Rose

as Colonel Suzuki

1946
China Sky

China Sky

1945 5.9
China Sky

as Col. Yasuda

1945
Betrayal from the East

Betrayal from the East

1945 6
Betrayal from the East

as Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani

1945
China

China

1943 6.6
China

as Lin Yun

1943
Flight for Freedom

Flight for Freedom

1943 6
Flight for Freedom

as Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)

1943