Movies List
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull

as Chang (voice)

1973
The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake

as Mao Tse Tung (uncredited)

1972
Diamond Head

as Mr. Immacona

1963
Yesterday's Enemy

as Yamazuki

1960
Hong Kong Confidential

as Tan Chung

1958
Hell's Half Acre

as Roger Kong

1954
His Majesty O'Keefe

as Sien Tang, Dentist

1954
Target Hong Kong

as Sin How

1953
Macao

as Itzumi

1952
I Was an American Spy

as Capt. Arito

1951
China Corsair

as Wong San

1951
Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

as Wong Chung Shee

1949
The Miracle of the Bells

as Ming Gow

1948
Rogues' Regiment

as Tran Duy Gian

1948
The Creeper

as Ah Wong - Restaurant Owner

1948
Intrigue

as Louie Chin

1947
The Chinese Ring

as Captain Kong

1947
Back to Bataan

as Col. Coroki

1945
China Sky

as Dr. Kim

1945
China's Little Devils

as Farmer

1945
December 7th

as Shinto Priest (uncredited)

1943
China

as Lin Cho

1943
Behind the Rising Sun

as Japanese Officer Murdering Takahashi

1943
China Girl

as Kai Young

1942
A Yank on the Burma Road

as Dr. Franklin Ling

1942
Philip Ahn Philip Ahn

Birthday

1905-03-29

Place of Birth

Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.
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