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The Daydreamer

as The Mole (voice)

1966
Swiss Family Robinson

as Kuala, Pirate Chief

1960
Hell to Eternity

as General Matsui

1960
Green Mansions

as Runi

1959
The Bridge on the River Kwai

as Col. Saito

1957
House of Bamboo

as Inspector Kito

1955
Three Came Home

as Colonel Michio Suga

1950
Tokyo Joe

as Baron Kimura

1949
The Daughter of the Samurai

as Iwao Yamato

1937
The Swamp

as Wang

1921
The Tong Man

as Luk Chen

1919
The Bottle Imp

as Lopaka

1917
Sessue Hayakawa Sessue Hayakawa

Birthday

1889-06-10

Place of Birth

Nanaura, Chiba, Japan

Biography

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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