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Richard Loo (Maui, Hawaii, 1 d’octubre de 1903 - Los Angeles, Califòrnia, 20 de novembre de 1983) va ser un actor de cinema nord-americà que va ser un dels actors de personatges asiàtics més coneguts de les pel·lícules americanes dels anys 30 i 40. Va aparèixer en més de 120 pel·lícules entre 1931 i 1982.

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理查德·卢

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理查德·卢(Richard Loo,1903 年 10 月 1 日 - 1983 年 11 月 20 日)是一位美国电影演员,是 1930 年代和 1940 年代美国电影中最熟悉的亚洲角色演员之一。1931 年至 1982 年间,他出演了 120 多部电影。

卢先生的祖先是中国人,出生于夏威夷,他在夏威夷度过了他的青年时代,然后在十几岁时搬到了加利福尼亚。他毕业于加州大学伯克利分校,开始了商业生涯。

1929年的股市崩盘和随后的经济萧条迫使Loo重新开始。他开始参与业余,然后是专业的戏剧公司,并于 1931 年制作了他的第一部电影。像大多数非亚洲国家的亚洲演员一样,他主要扮演小的、刻板的角色,尽管他在许多电影中迅速变得熟悉,即使不是成名的话。

他严厉的五官使他成为最受欢迎的电影反派,第二次世界大战的爆发使他在《紫心》(1944 年)和《上帝是我的副驾驶》(1945 年)等成功电影中扮演恶毒的日本士兵的角色更加突出。在第二次世界大战期间,卢最常被塑造成日本敌方飞行员、间谍或审讯员。在电影《紫心》中,他扮演一名日本帝国陆军将军,他因为无法击垮美国囚犯而自杀。据他的女儿贝弗利·简·卢(Beverly Jane Loo)说,他不介意在这些电影中被塑造成反派,因为他对扮演这些角色感到非常爱国。

1944年,他在《王国的钥匙》中以中国陆军中尉的身份出现在格雷戈里·派克(Gregory Peck)的对面。在塞缪尔·富勒(Samuel Fuller)的朝鲜战争经典电影《钢盔》(1951)中,他罕见地扮演了一名厌战的日裔美国士兵的英雄角色,但他在职业生涯后半段的大部分时间里都在电影和次要电视角色中扮演股票角色。

1974年,他在詹姆斯·邦德的电影《金枪人》中饰演泰国亿万富翁大亨海发,与罗杰·摩尔和克里斯托弗·李演对手戏。

在1972年至1975年的热门电视连续剧《功夫》的三集中,卢还是少林僧侣的老师,并作为不同的角色出场了三次。他最后一次出演是在 1981 年的《不可思议的绿巨人》电视剧中,但他继续出演丰田广告直到 1982 年。

1983年11月20日,卢因脑溢血去世,享年80岁。

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Richard Loo

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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.

The stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic depression forced Loo to start over. He became involved with amateur, then professional, theater companies and in 1931 made his first film. Like most Asian actors in non-Asian countries, he played primarily small, stereotypical roles, though he rose quickly to familiarity, if not fame, in a number of films.

His stern features led him to be a favorite movie villain, and the outbreak of World War II gave him greater prominence in roles as vicious Japanese soldiers in such successful pictures as The Purple Heart (1944) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Loo was most often typecast as the Japanese enemy pilot, spy or interrogator during World War II. In the film The Purple Heart he plays a Japanese Imperial Army general who commits suicide because he cannot break down the American prisoners. According to his daughter, Beverly Jane Loo, he didn't mind being typecast as a villain in these movies as he felt very patriotic about playing those parts.

In 1944 he appeared as a Chinese army lieutenant opposite Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom. He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles.

In 1974 he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, opposite Roger Moore and Christopher Lee.

Loo was also a teacher of Shaolin monks in three episodes of the 1972–1975 hit TV series Kung Fu and made a further three appearances as a different character. His last acting appearance was in The Incredible Hulk TV series in 1981, but he continued to act in Toyota commercials into 1982.

Loo died of a cerebral hemorrhage on November 20, 1983, age 80.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

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Richard Loo est un acteur très prolifique qui est apparu dans plus de 120 films entre 1931 et 1982. Il était souvent cantonné à des rôles stéréotypés de pilote ennemi japonais, d'espion ou d'interrogateur pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Bien qu'il soit d'origine chinoise et né à Hawaï, il a passé une grande partie de sa jeunesse en Californie après avoir déménagé là-bas en tant qu'adolescent. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de l'Université de Californie à Berkeley, il a commencé sa carrière dans les affaires. Cependant, la crise boursière de 1929 et la Grande Dépression qui a suivi l'ont contraint à tout recommencer. Il s'est ensuite tourné vers le théâtre amateur puis professionnel, et en 1931, il a fait ses débuts au cinéma. Comme de nombreux acteurs asiatiques travaillant en dehors de l'Asie, il a principalement joué des petits rôles stéréotypés. Malgré cela, il est rapidement devenu familier, mais pas véritablement célèbre, grâce à sa participation à plusieurs films.

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