Actor
Richard Loo
October 1, 1903 · Maui, Hawaii, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Keye Luke
5 titles together
Kung Fu, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Victor Sen Yung
4 titles together
Bonanza, Kung Fu, Across the Pacific
James Hong
3 titles together
The Sand Pebbles, Kung Fu, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Philip Ahn
3 titles together
Kung Fu, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, The Good Earth
Cosmo Sardo
2 titles together
Bewitched, Bonanza
Ronald Colman
2 titles together
Around the World in 80 Days, Lost Horizon
Full filmography · 124
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Kung Fu: The Movie
as Master Sun
1986
Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur
as Chiang-Kai-Shek
1976
The Man with the Golden Gun
as Hai Fat
19746.5
Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon
as Master Sun
19727.2
Chandler
as Leo
1971
One More Train to Rob
as Mr. Chang
1971
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
as Kenji Yamashita
1969
The Sand Pebbles
as Major Chin
19667.2
Diamond Head
as Yamagata (uncredited)
1962
A Girl Named Tamiko
as Otani
1962
Confessions of an Opium Eater
as George Wah
19625.8