Richard Loo

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-10-01 (80 years old)

Deathday

1983-11-20

Place of Birth

Maui, Hawaii, USA

Richard Loo

Biography

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 A...

Acting

1966

The Sand Pebbles

as Major Chin

1948

Women in the Night

as Colonel Noyama

1954

Hell and High Water

as Hakada Fujimori

1939

North of Shanghai

as Jed's Pilot

1949

The Clay Pigeon

as Ken Tokoyama

1944

The Purple Heart

as General Ito Mitsubi

1945

Betrayal from the East

as Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani

1949

Malaya

as Colonel Genichi Tomura

1937

The Good Earth

as Farmer (uncredited)

1951

The Steel Helmet

as Sergeant Tanaka

1945

Back to Bataan

as Maj. Hasko

1951

I Was an American Spy

as Col. Masamato

1957

Battle Hymn

as Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)

1953

1958

1940

The Fatal Hour

as Jeweler

1971

Chandler

as Leo

1945

First Yank into Tokyo

as Col. Hideko Okanura

1937

Lost Horizon

as Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)

1942

Star Spangled Rhythm

as Emperor Hirohito (uncredited)

1948

To the Ends of the Earth

as Commissioner Lu (uncredited)

1971

1947

Seven Were Saved

as Colonel Yamura

1943

Flight for Freedom

as Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)

1943

China

as Lin Yun

1954

The Bamboo Prison

as Commandant Hsai Tung

1937

West of Shanghai

as Mr. Cheng

1954

1962

Diamond Head

as Yamagata (uncredited)

1939

Panama Patrol

as Tommy Young

1942

Across the Pacific

as First Officer Miyuma

1932

The Secrets of Wu Sin

as Charlie San

1949

State Department: File 649

as Marshal Yun Usu

1935

China Seas

as Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)

1955

House of Bamboo

as Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited)

1947

1939

1939

Miracles for Sale

as Chinese Soldier in Demo

1939

Lady of the Tropics

as Delaroch's Chauffeur

1934

Now and Forever

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1945

Prison Ship

as Capt. Okisawa

1946

Tokyo Rose

as Colonel Suzuki

1940

Doomed to Die

as Tong Leader

1948

Rogues' Regiment

as Kao Pang

1934

Student Tour

as Geisha's Customer

1939

Barricade

as Colonel Commander of Rescue Party

1944

The Story of Dr. Wassell

as Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

as Saloon Manager (uncredited)

1945

China Sky

as Col. Yasuda

1953

Destination Gobi

as Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp

1937

The Soldier and the Lady

as Tartar (Uncredited)

1948

The Cobra Strikes

as Hyder Ali

1956

The Conqueror

as Captain of Wang's guard

1936

Stowaway

as Chinese Merchant (uncredited)

1935

Stranded

as Chinese Groom (uncredited)

1954

Living It Up

as Dr. Lee

1943

Behind the Rising Sun

as Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium

1938

Blondes at Work

as Sam Wong (uncredited)

1943

Destroyer

as Japanese Submarine Commander

1943

So Proudly We Hail

as Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)

1936

Roaming Lady

as Chinese Seaman

1948

1942

Road to Morocco

as Chinese Announcer (uncredited)

1945

China's Little Devils

as Colonel Huraji

1945

God Is My Co-Pilot

as Tokyo Joe

1936

Mad Holiday

as Li Yat (uncredited)

1958

1955

Soldier of Fortune

as Gen. Po Lin

1947

Beyond Our Own

as James Wong

1953

China Venture

as Chang Sung

1939

Island of Lost Men

as General Ahn Ling

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