Sessue Hayakawa
Birthday: 1889-06-10 | Place of Birth: Nanaura, Chiba, JapanSessue 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Self
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive)
as Tajima
as The Mole (voice)
as Self
as The Old Man
as General Matsui
as Kuala, Pirate Chief
as Runi
as Mr. Sikita
as Col. Saito
as Inspector Kito
as Sakon Tachibana
as Colonel Michio Suga
as Baron Kimura
as Professeur Wang
as Matsui
as Iwao Yamato
as Prince Hu-Long
as Ysamo, Kuli
as Ah Kee
as Prince Shan
