Heihachirō Ōkawa
Acting
Born 1905-09-09
Died 1971-05-27
Soka, Saitama, Japan
56 credits
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Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.
He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
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Filmography
Acting
29 credits
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Destroy All Monsters
Frankenstein Conquers the World
One of Those Things
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
The Mysterians
King Kong Escapes
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Five Men in a Circus
The Eagle of the Pacific
Interpol Code 8
The Road I Travel with You
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
The Wind Cannot Read
Marines, Let's Go
Dancing Girl
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
The Big Wave
Sky of Hope
The Dawn of Freedom
The Girl in the Rumor
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
All of Myself
Three Stripes in the Sun
Bouquet of the South Seas
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Drifting
Romantic and Crazy
The Sisters' Agreement
Other credits
27 credits
Chûshingura
Floating Clouds
Geisha Girl
Learn from Experience, Part One
Shanghai Moon
A Ripple in a Morning
Tokyo File 212
Wings of Victory
The Responsibility of Kissing
Odoriko nikki
Brother and Sister
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Wedding Day
The Man Who Waited
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Ichiyo Higuchi
Ghost Man
Love Express
Keshô yuki
Tipsy Life
A Woman's Sorrows
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Easy Alley
Blizzard Ronin
Mother of the Red Hands
Numazu Officer School
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