Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1903-10-01 (80 years old)
Deathday
1983-11-20
Place of Birth
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Also known As
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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...
1974
as Hai Fat
1966
as Major Chin
1948
as Colonel Noyama
1954
as Hakada Fujimori
1939
as Jed's Pilot
1932
as Captain Li
1949
as Ken Tokoyama
1944
as General Ito Mitsubi
1945
as Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
1949
as Colonel Genichi Tomura
1943
as Jerry
1937
as Farmer (uncredited)
1951
as Sergeant Tanaka
1944
as Lt. Shon
1945
as Maj. Hasko
1955
as Robert Hung
1951
as Col. Masamato
1957
as Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
2002
as Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
1953
as Fu Chao
1958
as Mr. Heng
1940
as Jeweler
1962
as George Wah
1971
as Leo
1945
as Col. Hideko Okanura
1937
as Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
1959
1942
as Emperor Hirohito (uncredited)
1948
as Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
1971
as Mr. Chang
1947
as Colonel Yamura
1976
as Chiang-Kai-Shek
1943
as Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
1943
as Lin Yun
1962
as Otani
1954
as Commandant Hsai Tung
1937
as Mr. Cheng
1954
as Officer
1939
as Wong
1962
as Yamagata (uncredited)
1939
as Tommy Young
1942
as First Officer Miyuma
1938
as Fong
1932
as Charlie San
1969
as Kenji Yamashita
1972
1949
as Marshal Yun Usu
1935
as Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
1955
as Inspector Kito's Voice (voice) (uncredited)
1947
as Wing
1939
as Tong Chief
1939
as Chinese Soldier in Demo
1939
as Delaroch's Chauffeur
1934
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1952
1942
1945
as Capt. Okisawa
1946
as Colonel Suzuki
1940
as Tong Leader
1948
as Kao Pang
1941
as Quan
1934
as Geisha's Customer
1939
as Colonel Commander of Rescue Party
1944
as Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
1956
as Saloon Manager (uncredited)
1945
as Col. Yasuda
1953
as Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp
1937
as Tartar (Uncredited)
1948
as Hyder Ali
1956
as Captain of Wang's guard
1936
as Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
1935
as Chinese Groom (uncredited)
1954
as Dr. Lee
1943
as Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium
1938
as Sam Wong (uncredited)
1943
as Japanese Submarine Commander
1943
as Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited)
1936
as Chinese Seaman
1948
as Lee Gow
1942
as Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
1945
as Colonel Huraji
1945
as Tokyo Joe
1936
as Li Yat (uncredited)
1958
as Li Noon
1955
as Gen. Po Lin
1947
as James Wong
1953
as Chang Sung
1939
as General Ahn Ling
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