Richard Loo

Richard Loo

American character actor (1903–1983)

Richard Kuen Loo was an American actor. He was one of the most familiar Asian American character actors during the Golden Age of Hollywood, appearing in numerous films of the 1930s through the 1950s. Though of Chinese ancestry, he often portrayed villainous Imperial Japanese military officers during the Second World War. Later in his career, he was active mainly on television.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 24 films (1934–1974) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 5 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▼ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1974 The Man With The Golden Gun Danjaq, S.A 125 min Color sound
1971 One More Train To Rob Universal Pictures 108 min Color sound
1966 The Sand Pebbles. Robert Wise Productions Solar Productions & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 179 min 35mm Color sound
1962 Confessions Of An Opium Eater. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. & Photoplay Associates Inc. 85 min 35mm B&W sound
1961 Seven Women From Hell. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 88 min 35mm B&W sound
1957 Battle Hymn. Universal Pictures Co. Inc. 108 min 35mm Color sound
1955 Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 102 min 35mm Color sound
1953 China Venture. Columbia Pictures Corp. 83 min. 35mm B&W sound
1947 The Beginning Or The End. Norman Taurog 112 min 35mm B&W sound
1947 Women In The Night. William Rowland 90 min. 35mm B&W sound
1944 THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL Cecil B. DeMille 15 reels Color sound
1943 Behind The Rising Sun. Edward Dmytryk 88 min. B&W
1943 SO PROUDLY WE HAIL Paramount 135min B&W Sound
1943 WAKE ISLAND Paramount 90min 16mm B&W Sound
1942 WAKE ISLAND John Farrow 87 min B&W
1942 Yanks Ahoy. Kurt Neumann 6 reels B&W
1940 The Fatal Hour. William Nigh 8 reels B&W
1939 ISLAND OF LOST MEN. Paramount Pictures Inc. 7 reels B&W
1939 MIRACLES FOR SALE. Loew's Inc. 8 reels B&W
1939 NORTH OF SHANGHAI. Columbia Pictures Corp. 6 reels B&W
1937 Lost Horizon Columbia Pictures (1937) (USA) (theatrical) (as Columbia Pictures Corp. of Cal. Ltd.): Distributor | Columbia Pictures (presents): Publisher 1:58:00 16mm B&W sound
1937 The Singing Marine warner brothers 105 min 16mm B&W sound
1937 THE SINGING MARINE. Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. 12 reels B&W
1934 STUDENT TOUR. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. 9 reels B&W