Victor Sen Yung
Victor Sen Young (born Victor Cheung Young or Sen Yew Cheung; October 18, 1915 – body discovered November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the Western series Bonanza. He was born in San Francisco, California to Gum Yung Sen and his first wife, both immigrants from China. His mother died during the flu epidemic of 1919. His father placed Victor and his younger sister, Rosemary, in a children's shelter, and returned to his homeland to seek another wife. He returned in 1922 with his new wife, Lovi Shee, forming a household with his two children. Sen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu, as the Chinese detective's "number two son", Jimmy Chan. Sen Yung played Jimmy Chan in 11 Charlie Chan films between 1938 and 1942. Moonlighting from the popular Chan series, Sen Yung won critical acclaim playing the nuanced role of Ong Chi Seng, a young attorney assisting Howard Joyce, in defending Leslie Crosbie, in The Letter. Like other Chinese-American actors, he was cast in Japanese parts during World War II, like his role as the treacherous Japanese-American Joe Totsuiko in the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Across the Pacific. During World War II he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces just as his erstwhile co-star Sidney Toler was set to revive the dormant Charlie Chan series at Monogram Pictures. Sen Yung's military obligations forced him to decline rejoining the series immediately, but Monogram gave him a standing invitation to work there after his tour of duty. Sen Yung's military service included work in training films at the First Motion Picture Unit and a role in the Army Air Forces' play and film Winged Victory. In 1946 Sen Yung resumed his Hollywood career at Monogram, now billed as Victor Sen Young, and reunited with Sidney Toler. Toler's health was failing; Monogram was conserving Toler's waning energy, limiting his scenes and giving him long rest periods during filming. To relieve the burden on Toler, Monogram entrusted much of the action to Victor Sen Young; he and either Mantan Moreland or Willie Best shared much of the footage in Toler's final three films, Dangerous Money, Shadows Over Chinatown, and The Trap. The addition of Moreland as Chan's black chauffeur, Birmingham Brown, reflected the fact that by this time the Chan pictures had a significant following among black Americans, who liked a film series that for once did not feature a white hero. Moreland's popularity in the Chan pictures was so great that he was booked for a nationwide vaudeville tour. Following Toler's death in 1947, Victor Sen Young appeared in five of the remaining six Charlie Chan features. His character "Jimmy" was renamed "Tommy". Victor Sen Young continued to work in motion pictures and television in roles ranging from featured players (affable or earnest Asian characters) to bit roles (clerks, houseboys, waiters, etc.). Arguably even more than for his work in the Charlie Chan films, Victor Sen Yung is remembered as "Hop Sing," the irascible cook and general factotum on the iconic television series Bonanza, appearing in 107 episodes between 1959 and 1973. Sen Yung was also an accomplished and talented chef. He frequently appeared on cooking programs and authored The Great Wok Cookbook in 1974.
The Letter
as Ong Chi SengAfter a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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The Killer Elite
as Wei ChiMike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion...
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The Blue Gardenia
as Blue Gardenia Waiter (uncredited)Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been...
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The Breaking Point
as Mr. SingA fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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The Sniper
as TomEddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with...
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The Good Earth
as Peasant (uncredited)China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble...
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Blood Alley
as Cpl. WangAn American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers,...
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Flower Drum Song
as Frankie WingA young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying...
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Across the Pacific
as Joe TotsuikoRick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is...
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Soldier of Fortune
as Goldie - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer...
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
as James ChanWhile Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his...
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Betrayal from the East
as OmayaA carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
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Woman on the Run
as Sammy ChungFrank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police...
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A Ticket to Tomahawk
as Long TimeA cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting...
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Shadows Over Chinatown
as Jimmy ChanIn San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing...
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Men in War
as North Korean Sniper PrisonerIn Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held...
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The Left Hand of God
as John WongA man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a...
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The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels,...
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The Man with Bogart's Face
as Mr. WingIn this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so...
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The Hunters
as Korean farmerWith its electrifying flight sequences and high-powered cast, The Hunters is a mesmerizing film...
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Charlie Chan in Reno
as Jimmy ChanMary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...
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Murder Over New York
as Jimmy ChanWhen Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in...
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She Demons
as Sammy ChingA couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.
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Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
as ChuenAfter avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and...
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Cripple Creek
as Postal Clerk (uncredited)It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the...
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Jubilee Trail
as Mickey - Chinese Man (uncredited)A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader...
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The Hawaiians
as Chun Fat (uncredited)A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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Red Light
as VincentNick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at...
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The Saga of Hemp Brown
as ChangEx-army sergeant Jed Givens and his gang rob an army payroll shipment led by Lt. Hemp Brown....
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Docks of New Orleans
as Tommy ChanDetective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company...
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Half Past Midnight
as SamA detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a...
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20,000 Men a Year
as Harold ChongPilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a...
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
as Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper...
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The Rawhide Years
as Chang - Steward (uncredited)Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena...
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They Met in Bombay
as Gin Ling (uncredited)A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in...
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Dangerous Money
as Jimmy ChanA treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger,...
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China
as Lin WeiShortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell...
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
as Jimmy ChanCharlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a...
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Charlie Chan in Panama
as Jimmy Chan (as Sen Yung)Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would...
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Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture
as uncreditedBlackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track...
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And Baby Makes Three
as Lem KeeA recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.
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Winged Victory
as Lee (uncredited)Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of...
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
as Onlooker with Street Acrobats / Elevator Operator (uncredited)Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis...
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State Department: File 649
as Johnny HanKenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon,...
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Moontide
as Jimmy TakeoAfter a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Accused of Murder
as Hank - Bayliss' Houseboy (uncredited)A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love...
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The Chinese Ring
as Tommy ChanSoon after a Chinese princess comes to the US to buy planes for her people, she is murdered by a...
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G.I. War Brides
as Waiter (uncredited)Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to...
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
as Jimmy ChanOn a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four...
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Jet Attack
as Capt. ChonA Soviet nurse helps a U.S. pilot, his buddies and a scientist escape from North Korea. ...
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International Settlement
as Bellboy / Onlooker in StreetIn Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun...
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Double or Nothing
as Minor Role (uncredited)A philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 apiece, with the stipulation...
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To the Ends of the Earth
as Chinese Pilot (uncredited)A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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The Trap
as Jimmy ChanWhen a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach...
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Hong Kong
as Mr. Howe (uncredited)American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes...
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Peking Express
as Chinese Captain (uncredited)A group of refugees fleeing Chinese Communist rule via train are beset by a gang of terrifying...
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Chinatown at Midnight
as Hotel ProprietorA young man who steals valuable Oriental objects for a crooked antique dealer is hunted down by...
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Rogues' Regiment
as Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high...
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Shanghai Chest
as Tommy ChanCharlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all...
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The Red Pony
as Mr. Sing / Carni man / Mr. GreenA young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young...
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Confessions of an Opium Eater
as Wing YoungVincent Price stars in this early '60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey's thriller about an opium...
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Flight to Hong Kong
as Airline Ticket Clerk (uncredited)On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes...
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A Flea in Her Ear
as Oke SakiSuspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
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Charlie Chan in Rio
as Jimmy ChanIn Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan...
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Manila Calling
as ArmandoDuring WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the...
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Jump Into Hell
as Lt. ThatchArriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous...
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The Shanghai Story
as Sun LeeShanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a...
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Key to the City
as MC at the Blue Duck (uncredited)At a mayors convention in San Francisco, ex-longshoreman Steve Fisk meets Clarissa Standish from...
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A Yank on the Burma Road
as Wing (as Sen Yung)A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II...
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The Flame
as ChangGeorge McAllister, the black sheep of a wealthy family who has squandered his share of the...
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The Mad Martindales
as Jefferson GowA girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's...
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Lost Angel
as Chinese Man (uncredited)Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest...
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Dangerous Millions
as Lin ChowEight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then...
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Shadows Over Shanghai
as WangA pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also...
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The Feathered Serpent
as Tommy ChanIn order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague,...
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Castle in the Desert
as Jimmy ChanCharlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a...
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Valley of Fire
as Ching MoonAn outcast gambler hijacks a wagon train of eligible women taken west by a mayor.
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Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
as SoldierIn the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a...
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The Groom Wore Spurs
as IgnacioPretty female attorney Abigail "AJ" Furnival is hired to keep high-flying cowboy movie star Ben...
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
as Chinese Entertainer with SwordTorchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of...
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Tuna Clipper
as Oriental Dock WorkerHoping to become a lawyer, Alec (Roddy McDowall) becomes a tuna fisherman in order to pay a...
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The Golden Eye
as Tommy Chan (as Victor Sen Young)A gold mine in Arizona, that was formerly losing a lot of money, suddenly turns into a veritable...
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Secret Agent of Japan
as Fu YenWorld War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
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Dead Men Tell
as Jimmy ChanWhen the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie...
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Secrets of Monte Carlo
as Chinese Clerk (uncredited)A U.S. businessman abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.
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Grounds for Marriage
as Oscar, Chris' ValetOpera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.
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Intrigue
as Western Union Clerk (uncredited)Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham (George Raft) disconsolately...
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Oh, You Beautiful Doll
as HouseboyPeriod musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
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Trader Tom of the China Seas
as WangIn this 12 Chapter serial the UN enlists trader Tom Rogers and Vivian Wells, to lead the effort...
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Barricade
as Undetermined RoleIn China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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The Crimson Key
as Wing - HouseboyLarry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The...
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Escape to Paradise
as uncreditedAn American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble.
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Night Plane from Chungking
as Captain PoWithout lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route...
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Forbidden
as Allan ChungEddie Darrow, seeking a mobster's widow in Macao, gets involved in a casino owner's affairs.
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Target Hong Kong
as Johnny Wing (uncredited)Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
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The Law and the Lady
as Chinese Manager (uncredited)A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in...
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Port of Hell
as Detonation Ship RadiomanThe new warden of a large American harbor raises the hackles of sailors and fishermen by his...
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Little Tokyo, U.S.A.
as uncreditedFilmed in the months immediately following Pearl Harbor, 20th Century-Fox's Little Tokyo USA is...
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Web of Danger
as SamErnie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew...
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The Mike Douglas Show
as SelfThe Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...
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Perry Mason
as Mickey FongThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Perry Mason
as ShengThe cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...
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Bonanza
as Hop Sing (uncredited)The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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Bonanza
as Hop SingThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
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The Rifleman
as uncreditedThe Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas...
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The Wild Wild West
as Baron KyosaiThe Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television...
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Get Smart
as uncreditedGet Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created...
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Get Smart
as Abe Fu YungGet Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created...
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Hawaii Five-O
as Dr. Leo KuhHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
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Hawaiian Eye
as uncreditedPrivate Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they...
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The F.B.I.
as Mayor EtoThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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The F.B.I.
as Joseph SakanishiThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
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Night Gallery
as Joseph the ButlerRod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a...
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The Jack Benny Program
as Chinese cafeteria employeeLaugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular...
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Thriller
as BartenderThriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...
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Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as MaganRichard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949...
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Mister Ed
as uncreditedWilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his...
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How the West Was Won
as Hospital AttendantThe Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer...
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Hong Kong
as YangHong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the...
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show
as Dr. Wing Chin-NiThe Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from...
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as uncreditedGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September...
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Adventures of Superman
as Harry WongAnnouncer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a...
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Barbary Coast
as SoongBarbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on...
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Yancy Derringer
as Hon LeeYancy Derringer is an American Western series
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Broken Arrow
as Ling TangBroken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on...
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87th Precinct
as Charlie, 1st Tattoo Parlor Owner87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper,...
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Isis
as Mr. ChenThe Secrets of Isis is the syndicated title of a live action CBS television series produced by...
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Captain Midnight
as uncreditedCaptain Midnight is an American televisions series that aired on CBS from September 9, 1954 to...
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The Paul Lynde Show
as uncreditedThe Paul Lynde Show is an American sitcom that aired on ABC. The series stars Paul Lynde and...
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Mickey
as uncreditedMickey is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC from September 1964 to January 1965....
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Terry and the Pirates
as uncreditedTerry and the Pirates is a short-lived American adventure series based on Milton Caniff's...
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China Smith
as uncreditedChina Smith was a 1950s television adventure series starring Dan Duryea. The television show...
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Dr. Fu Manchu
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu is a syndicated American television series that aired in 1956....
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Kung Fu
as uncreditedThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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Kung Fu
as Master Ling (uncredited)The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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Kung Fu
as ChuThe adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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Kung Fu
as Chuen (archive footage) (uncredited)The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in...
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