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- For the co-founder of the online ratings site, see Hot or Not.
James Hong (???, pinyin: Wu Hanzhang, born 22 February 1929) is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA).
was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Frank W. Hong, emmigrated from Hong Kong to Chicago through Canada and was a restaurant owner while his grandfather's ancestral homeland was Taishan, China.
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- For the co-founder of the online ratings site, see Hot or Not.
James Hong (???, pinyin: Wu Hanzhang, born 22 February 1929) is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA).
Biography
Early life
Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Frank W. Hong, emmigrated from Hong Kong to Chicago through Canada and was a restaurant owner while his grandfather's ancestral homeland was Taishan, China. For his early education, Hong moved to Hong Kong, and returned to the United States at age ten. He studied civil engineering at the University of Southern California, but later became interested in acting and trained with Jeff Corey. Mr. Hong, widely known by his nickname, Jimmy, was a road engineer for Los Angeles County for 1 1/2 years, acting during his vacations and sick days. He finally quit engineering for good to devote himself to acting and voice work full time.
Career
His career in show business began in the 1950s when he redubbed soundtracks of several Asian films, including the redubbing of characters Ogata and Dr. Serizawa in the 1956 Japanese film Godzilla, King of the Monsters! as well as the title character in The Human Vapor. Hong was one of the original founding members, in 1965, of the East West Players, one of the first Asian American theatre organizations.
He has appeared in myriad supporting character roles in films and television — his Internet Movie Database filmography contained 300 credits as of October 2006. He was a frequent guest star on the 1972-1975 television series Kung Fu, and is perhaps most widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China (1986), as the eye manufacturer Chew in Blade Runner (his Featured role), as the low-rent private eye in Black Widow, he also starred in the 1989 film The Vineyard. Chinese restaurant in the well-known Seinfeld episode “The Chinese Restaurant”, and as Hoshi the former paid assassin and boxing coach for Monica's boyfriend Pete in the episode of "The One with the Ultimate Fighting Champion" of Friends. He also played a flight attendant in the original 1979 film The In-Laws. Hong had a small role in the 1998 independent film, Broken Vessels. Recently, he played the role of Mr. Takato in the movie Chasing Zoey. He was a "not existing" man in the television series Zoey 101 who taught Michael Barret how to drive in stick shift.
Hong was the voice of Daolon Wong, an evil wizard in the Jackie Chan Adventures television series. He was the voice of Chi Fu in Disney’s Mulan, Mandarin in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, and Professor Chang in Teen Titans. He made a cameo appearance in the television series Las Vegas as a presumed cheating holy monk.
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Hong's voice also appeared as Colonel Zhou Peng in the video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, Dr. Chang in 2007's Def Jam Icon, Ancient Wu in True Crime: Streets of LA, and reprising his role as Chew in the Blade Runner video game. His most recent appearances were in the films Balls of Fury, Kung Fu Panda, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
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