American actor (born 1929)
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Six hundred roles across seven decades — more screen time than almost anyone alive. Hong's face has threaded through American film and television since the 1950s, a constant in everything from noir to sitcom to sci-fi, finally celebrated in 2022 when Everything Everywhere All at Once made him impossible to ignore.
Born February 22, 1929, Hong entered Hollywood during its Golden Age and co-founded East West Players, the first Asian American theatre company in the country, to crack open doors the industry kept shut. He worked steadily through detective shows and westerns — The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O — then slipped into the margins of major films: Chinatown, Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China. For decades he was the face you recognized but couldn't name, logging roles in Airplane!, the Seinfeld "Chinese Restaurant" episode, and eventually as Mr. Ping in Kung Fu Panda.…
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I am a Chinese American actor and there was nothing for me, and how can you take that slap in the face back and forth each year? Being from Minnesota, I’m a fighter, you know.
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