Richard Loo

Richard Loo

October 1, 1903 · 122 years old

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…

Known For

17 titles
1
The Man with the Golden Gun

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974 · 2h 5m · Movie

James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

6.7
2
The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

1966 · 3h 2m · Movie

In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

7.5
3
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955 · 1h 42m · Movie

A widowed Chinese-English doctor falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist Revolution.

6.4
4
The Steel Helmet

The Steel Helmet

1951 · 1h 25m · Movie

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

7.4
5
The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.

6.9
6
Back to Bataan

Back to Bataan

1945 · 1h 35m · Movie

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

6.6
7
The Conqueror

The Conqueror

1956 · 1h 51m · Movie

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.

3.7
8
Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

1954 · 1h 43m · Movie

During the Cold War, a scientific team refits a Japanese submarine and hires an ex-Navy officer to find a secret Chinese atomic island base and prevent a Communist plot against America that could trigger WW3.

6.1
9
Living It Up

Living It Up

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

6.5
10
Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die

1940 · 1h 8m · Movie

Mr. Wong and a girl reporter investigate a shipping magnate's murder.

5.5
11
The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour

1940 · 1h 8m · Movie

When Captain Street's best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street receives help from Chinese detective James Lee Wong and local newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan.

5.4
12
Now and Forever

Now and Forever

1934 · 1h 21m · Movie

A swindler and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with the family of his deceased wife.

6.5
13
Destination Gobi

Destination Gobi

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads.

6.3
14
The Purple Heart

The Purple Heart

1944 · 1h 39m · Movie

This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.

6.5
15
Confessions of an Opium Eater

Confessions of an Opium Eater

1962 · 1h 25m · Movie

In 19th-century San Francisco's Chinatown, American adventurer Gilbert De Quincey saves slave girls owned by the Chinese Tong factions.

6.2
16
One More Train to Rob

One More Train to Rob

1971 · 1h 48m · Movie

After taking the fall for a train robbery, Harker Fleet is released from prison and exacts revenge on his former partners who cheated him out of his share.

5.7
17
Island of Lost Men

Island of Lost Men

1939 · 1h 8m · Movie

A Chinese general, who disappeared in the Malaysian jungles with stolen government funds, is sought by his cabaret-singing daughter who wants to clear his name.

5.8