Philip Ahn

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

121

Movies

107

Born: March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978
From: Highland Park, Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philip Ahn (born Pil Lip Ahn (안필립), March 29, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a Korean American actor. He was the first Korean American film actor to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ahn's first film was A Scream in the Night in 1935. He appeared in the Bing Crosby film Anything Goes, though director Lewis Milestone had initially rejected him because his English was too good for the part. His first credited roles came in 1936 in The General Died at Dawn and Stowaway, opposite Shirley Temple. He starred opposite Anna May Wong in Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and King of Chinatown (1937). During World War II, Ahn often played Japanese villains in war films. Mistakenly thought to be Japanese, he received several death threats. He enlisted in the United States Army, having served in the Special Services as an entertainer. He was discharged early because of an injured ankle and returned to making films. Ahn appeared in Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, Around the World in Eighty Days, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Paradise, Hawaiian Style, with Elvis Presley. He got to play Korean characters in Korean War movies such as Battle Circus (1953) and Battle Hymn (1956). In 1952, Ahn made his television debut on the Schlitz Playhouse, a series he would make three additional appearances on. Ahn would also be cast in four episodes of ABC's Adventures in Paradise, four episodes of the ABC/Warner Brothers crime drama Hawaiian Eye, and the CBS crime drama Hawaii Five-O. He made three appearances each on Crossroads, Bonanza, and M*A*S*H. He would also appear in two television movies. Ahn's most notable television role was as "Master Kan" on the television series Kung Fu. A Presbyterian, Ahn felt that the Taoist homilies his character quoted did not contradict his own religious faith.

Works

107 films

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

One-Eyed Jacks

19616.8

Never So Few

19595.5

China Girl

19425.4

The Good Earth

19376.3

Battle Hymn

19576.6

They Were Expendable

19456.5

The Keys of the Kingdom

19447.1

Thoroughly Modern Millie

19676.9

Back to Bataan

19456.1

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

19556.0

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

19736.1

The World's Greatest Athlete

19735.5

Blood on the Sun

19455.9

Shock Corridor

19637.0

Halls of Montezuma

19515.9

Impact

19496.1

Drums of Fu Manchu

19406.3

Across the Pacific

19426.6

Macao

19526.3

The Story of Dr. Wassell

19446.4

God Is My Co-Pilot

19457.1

The Great Impostor

19606.9

Diamond Head

19625.5

The Left Hand of God

19556.3

The Karate Killers

19675.1

His Majesty O'Keefe

19546.4

Dragon Seed

19446.7

A Yank on the Burma Road

19425.7

Red Snow

19525.7

The Miracle of the Bells

19486.2

The Killer Who Wouldn't Die

19767.0

Stowaway

19366.7

Singapore

19476.1

The Shanghai Story

19545.0

The Purple Heart

19446.1

Paradise, Hawaiian Style

19665.2

Hong Kong Confidential

19585.9

Kung Fu: The Movie

19865.3

Yesterday's Enemy

19597.2

Saigon

19476.0

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

19436.7

The Tuttles of Tahiti

19425.7

The General Died at Dawn

19366.5

Panama Patrol

19397.5

Something to Sing About

19376.2

The Shadow

19407.3

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

19727.2

China Sky

19455.1

A Girl Named Tamiko

19625.8

The Chinese Ring

19475.1

State Department: File 649

19495.0

Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita

19748.0

China Venture

19537.8

The Big Hangover

19506.4

Behind the Rising Sun

19436.1

Desirable

19347.2

Rogues' Regiment

19486.8

Betrayal from the East

19456.4

Daughter of Shanghai

19375.4

Don Winslow of the Coast Guard

194310.0

Forever Yours

19457.0

Japanese War Bride

19526.0

King of Chinatown

19395.6

Thank You, Mr. Moto

19376.2

Hell's Half Acre

19545.5

Around the World

19436.3

Ship Ahoy

19426.3

They Met in Bombay

19417.3

The Man from Down Under

19437.7

The Creeper

19485.0

The Cobra Strikes

19487.5

Battle Zone

19525.5

Red Barry

193810.0

December 7th

19435.8

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

19386.5

Fair Wind to Java

19535.6

Confessions of an Opium Eater

19625.8

Shanghai

19357.3

The Sex Serum of Dr. Blake

19703.8

China

19436.9

Jump Into Hell

19554.2

Klondike Annie

19366.3

The Way to the Gold

19578.0

I Was an American Spy

19516.6

Let's Get Tough

19425.3

The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

19435.7

China's Little Devils

19456.0

Dragon by the Tail

1961

Cocoon

19688.5

North of Shanghai

19398.0

Submarine Raider

19425.7

Island of Lost Men

19395.6

Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture

19496.1

Roaring Timber

19376.0

The Sickle or the Cross

19497.0

Disputed Passage

19397.0

Target Hong Kong

19535.8

Barricade

19396.5

A Scream in the Night

19355.0

Hawaii Calls

19386.0

China Corsair

19516.3

China Passage

19376.3

Intrigue

19475.6

Tex Rides with the Boy Scouts

19375.5

Secrets of Monte Carlo

19518.0

Women in the Night

19484.0