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.
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Richard Loo Biography / Wiki
| Name | Richard Loo |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Maui, Hawaii, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1903-10-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 80 |
| Deathday | 1983-11-20 |
Richard Loo Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Women in the Night | Colonel Noyama | 1948-01-02 | During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the… |
| Betrayal from the East | Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani | 1945-04-24 | A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal…. |
| Target Hong Kong | Fu Chao | 1953-02-06 | Blasting the world’s worst spy nest!… |
| Confessions of an Opium Eater | George Wah | 1962-06-20 | Vincent Price stars in this early ’60s adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s thriller about an opium addict trying to solve a mystery in San Francisco’s C… |
| The Scavengers | 1959-10-01 | This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns a reformed smuggler (Vince Edwards of TV’s Ben Casey) who finds his missing wife (Carol Ohmart) in Hong K… | |
| Prison Ship | Capt. Okisawa | 1945-11-15 | Panic arises among the Allied prisoners on a Japanese ship when they learn that the ship is decoy for American submarines and is not blacked out at ni… |
| Hong Kong Affair | Li Noon | 1958-05-11 | An American businessman travels to Hong Kong to find out why his tea plantation isn’t making money. When he gets there he discovers that his business … |
| The Clay Pigeon | Ken Tokoyama | 1949-03-03 | Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese pr… |
| I Was an American Spy | Col. Masamato | 1951-04-14 | An American nightclub singer in 1940’s Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true sto… |
| First Yank into Tokyo | Col. Hideko Okanura | 1945-09-05 | A U.S. pilot (Tom Neal) undergoes plastic surgery and drops into Japan to get a captive scientist’s (Marc Cramer) atomic secrets…. |
| West Of Shanghai | Cheng | 1937-10-30 | American businessmen and missionaries working in China are captured and held prisoner by a local warlord…. |
| Daughter of the Tong | Wong | 1939-08-28 | A detective matches wits with the female leader of a crime ring…. |
| Panama Patrol | Tommy Young | 1939-03-20 | A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal…. |
| Web of Danger | Wing | 1947-06-10 | Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O’Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly… |
| Tokyo Rose | Colonel Suzuki | 1946-02-08 | Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman (Byron… |
| The Steel Helmet | Sergeant Tanaka | 1951-01-24 | A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War…. |
| Back to Bataan | Maj. Hasko | 1945-05-30 | An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines…. |
| Seven Were Saved | Colonel Yamura | 1947-03-28 | A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The … |
| State Department: File 649 | Marshal Yun Usu | 1949-02-11 | Kenneth Seeley, member of the U. S. State Department’s Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon, a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an a… |
| China Sky | Col. Yasuda | 1945-05-16 | In a hill city of war-torn China, the American mission hospital is run by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand, who secretly loves him. Then Gray com… |
| The Cobra Strikes | Hyder Ali | 1948-04-24 | A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist…. |
| Beyond Our Own | James Wong | 1947-11-16 | This latter-day parable focuses on two brothers. Peter Rogers is an ambitious, hard-driving attorney. Bob Rogers is a thoughtful, contemplative doctor… |
| China Venture | Chang Sung | 1953-09-07 | American soldiers undertake a mission to capture a Japanese admiral who has survived an air crash in China during WWII…. |
| Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon | Master Sun | 1972-02-22 | After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters…. |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Hai Fat | 1974-12-01 | Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun’s heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths wit… |
| The Secrets of Wu Sin | Charlie San | 1932-12-15 | A murder mystery about the smuggling of illegal Chinese aliens into America through Chinatown…. |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Captain Li | 1933-01-06 | An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai…. |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Robert Hung | 1955-08-18 | A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s Communist revolu… |
| Chandler | Leo | 1971-12-01 | A private eye is hired to follow a mobster’s former mistress…. |
| One More Train to Rob | Mr. Chang | 1971-02-12 | Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the g… |
| Flight for Freedom | Mr. Yokahata | 1943-04-14 | 1943 fictionalised biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937. In the film, Rosalind Russell… |
| Hell and High Water | Hakada Fujimori | 1954-02-06 | A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese… |
| China | Lin Yun | 1943-04-21 | Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the s… |
| Secret of the Wastelands | Quan | 1941-11-15 | Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are… |
| Malaya | Colonel Genichi Tomura | 1949-12-27 | After living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he c… |
| Battle Hymn | Gen. Kim (scenes deleted) | 1957-02-14 | Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during Wor… |
| The Quiet American | Mr. Heng | 1958-02-08 | Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her at… |
| A Girl Named Tamiko | Otani | 1962-12-27 | A photographer (Laurence Harvey) based in Tokyo, who’s in love with local beauty Tamiko (France Nuyen), begins to court an embassy official (Martha Hy… |
| The Bamboo Prison | Commandant Hsai Tung | 1954-06-15 | A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners…. |
| Rogues’ Regiment | Kao Pang | 1948-12-28 | A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted…. |
| China’s Little Devils | Colonel Huraji | 1945-05-27 | In this propaganda film, a courageous group of Chinese children risk their lives to assist downed American pilots escape the ruthless Japanese oppress… |
| The Falcon Strikes Back | Jerry | 1943-04-01 | The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodg… |
| Living It Up | Dr. Lee | 1954-07-15 | Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic provi… |
| The Purple Heart | General Ito Mitsubi | 1944-02-25 | This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in cap… |
| The Fatal Hour | Jeweler | 1940-01-15 | When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessma… |
| Doomed to Die | Tong Leader | 1940-08-12 | Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chine… |
| Half Past Midnight | Lee Gow | 1948-03-01 | A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woma… |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. [Pilot] | Kenji Yamashita | 1969-03-26 | The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an i… |
| Now and Forever | Hotel Clerk | 1934-08-31 | Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can’t accept responsibility but Toni yearns … |
| Soldier of Fortune | Gen. Po Lin | 1955-01-01 | An American woman arrives in Hong Kong to unravel the mystery of her missing photographer husband. After getting nowhere with the authorities, she is … |
| The Sand Pebbles | Major Chin | 1966-12-20 | Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution… |
| Shadows Over Shanghai | Fong | 1938-10-14 | A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet…. |
| Destination Gobi | Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited) | 1953-03-20 | A group of US Navy weathermen taking measurements in the Gobi desert in World War II are forced to seek the help of Mongol nomads to regain their ship… |
| The Conqueror | Captain of Wang’s guard | 1956-03-28 | Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan…. |
| God Is My Co-Pilot | Tokyo Joe | 1945-04-07 | Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch… |
| Destroyer | Japanese Submarine Commander | 1943-08-19 | Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the c… |
| Across the Pacific | First Officer Miyuma | 1942-09-04 | Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship f… |
| The Story of Dr. Wassell | Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited) | 1944-07-04 | As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marb… |
| Wake Island | Mr. Saburo Kurusu | 1942-08-11 | In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical… |
| Diamond Head | 1962-12-27 | Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstro… | |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Lt. Shon | 1944-12-15 | A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a prie… |
| The Shanghai Story | Officer | 1954-09-01 | Shanghai, China. The last expatriate Westerners still living in the city are imprisoned in a hotel by the communist authorities in order to find the s… |
| Stowaway | Chinese Merchant (uncredited) | 1936-12-25 | Chin-Ching gets lost in Shanghai and is befriended by American playboy Tommy Randall. She falls asleep in his car which winds up on a ship headed for … |
| Lady of the Tropics | Delaroch’s Chauffeur | 1939-08-11 | Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier…. |
| Mad Holiday | Li Yat (uncredited) | 1936-11-13 | A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder…. |
| Barricade | Colonel Commander of Rescue Party | 1939-12-08 | In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits…. |
| Roaming Lady | Chinese Seaman | 1936-05-02 | Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bail… |
| The Soldier and the Lady | Tartar (Uncredited) | 1937-04-09 | In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir… |
| Miracles for Sale | Chinese Soldier in Demo | 1939-08-10 | A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered…. |
| House of Bamboo | Inspector Kito’s Voice (voice) (uncredited) | 1955-07-01 | Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen… |
| The Amazing Mrs. Holliday | 1943-02-19 | A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country…. | |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-07-02 | Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips…. |
| Blondes at Work | Sam Wong (uncredited) | 1938-02-05 | When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in… |
| Behind the Rising Sun | Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium | 1943-08-01 | A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis…. |
| Stranded | Chinese Groom (uncredited) | 1935-06-29 | A Traveler’s Aid worker who delights in solving people’s problems gets mixed up with gangsters…. |
| Road to Morocco | Chinese Announcer (uncredited) | 1942-11-10 | Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar…. |
| So Proudly We Hail | Japanese Radio Announcer (Voice) (Uncredited) | 1943-09-09 | A group of U.S. Army nurses leaves San Francisco for their tour of duty in Hawaii in December 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor changes their destinati… |
| Student Tour | Geisha’s Customer | 1934-10-05 | A philosophy professor accompanies his school’s rowing team on a worldwide tour…. |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | Emperor Hirohito (uncredited) | 1942-03-05 | Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he’s the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie… |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Saloon Manager (uncredited) | 1956-10-17 | Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve… |
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