JAMES HONG

'James Hong' (吳漢章, pinyin: ''Wu Hanzhang'', born 22 February 1929) is an American actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA).

Contents

Biography

Early life

Career

References

External links

Biography

Early life

Hong was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Frank W. Hong, immigrated from Hong Kong to Chicago through Canada and was a restaurant owner.^[1] 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.

Career

In the 1950's, he started in the dubbing business, which includes the dubbing of Ogata and Dr. Serizawa in Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. Hong was one of the original founding members, in 1965, of East West Players, one of the first Asian American theatre organizations. He has appeared in myriad supporting character roles in films and television—with his Internet Movie Database filmography containing 300 credits as of October 2006. He was a frequent guest star in the 1972-1975 television series, ''Kung Fu''. He was perhaps most-widely known as the immortal ghost sorcerer Lo Pan in John Carpenter’s ''Big Trouble in Little China'' (1986) and the obtuse maître d’ at the Chinese restaurant in the famous ''Seinfeld'' episode “The Chinese Restaurant”.
Hong was the voice of Daolon Wong, an evil wizard in the ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' TV 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 TV series ''Las Vegas'' as a cheating holy Monk.
Hong also voiced Colonel Zhou Peng in the video game , Dr Chan in 2007's Def Jam Icon, Ancient Wu in
and the video game of Blade Runner. He was just recently in the movie Balls of Fury.

References

★ Pilato, Herbie J. ''. Boston: Charles A. Tuttle, 1993. ISBN 0-8048-1826-6
1. http://www.jameshong.com/About.htm

External links

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