Sessue Hayakawa
Acting
Born 1889-06-10
Died 1973-11-23
Nanaura, Chiba, Japan
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Sessue Hayakawa (June 10, 1889 – November 23, 1973) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) actor who starred in American, Japanese, French, German, and British films. Hayakawa was the first and one of the few Asian actors to find stardom in the United States as well as Europe. Between the mid-1910s and the late 1920s, he was as well known as actors Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks. He was one of the highest paid stars of his time; making $5,000 a week in 1915, and $2 million a year via his own production company during the 1920s. He starred in over 80 movies and has two films in the U.S. National Film Registry. His international stardom transitioned both silent films and talkies.
Of his English-language films, Hayakawa is probably best known for his role as Colonel Saito in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he received a nomination for Academy Award Best Supporting Actor in 1957. He also appeared as the pirate leader in Disney's Swiss Family Robinson in 1960. In addition to his film acting career, Hayakawa was a theatre actor, film and theatre producer, film director, screenwriter, novelist, martial artist, and an ordained Zen master. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sessue Hayakawa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Wagon Train
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Taikouki
The Battle
Swiss Family Robinson
Green Mansions
Hashimura Togo
Le Cabaret du Grand Large
The Geisha Boy
The Motherland Far Far Away
Asian Americans
House of Bamboo
Tokyo Joe
Alien Souls
Tempête sur l'Asie
His Birthright
The Cheat
I Have Killed
Forfaiture
The Daughter of the Samurai
Le Soleil de minuit
Forbidden Paths
Three Came Home
Patrouille blanche
The Illustrious Prince
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Sen Yan’s Devotion
47 Vendettas
The Chinatown Mystery
The Jaguar's Claws
The Daydreamer
Kurama Tengu and Katsu Kaishū
Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)
The Danger Line
The Tong Man
Yoshiwara
His Debt
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
The First Born
The Bottle Imp
Hell to Eternity
Li Ting Lang
Daughter of the Dragon
The Courageous Coward
The Honor of His House
Running Hollywood
Five Days to Live
After Five
The Honorable Friend
A Heart in Pawn
Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks
The Soul of Kura San
O Mimi san
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant
Night Life in Hollywood
Each to His Kind
The Victoria Cross
The Gray Horizon
An Arabian Knight
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